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Old March 27th 04, 06:07 AM
Scott Ferrin
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:56:19 GMT, Scott Lowther
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Scott Ferrin wrote:

Just FYI if the Space Settlements, A Design Study is the one done in
1974 it is available in PDF format online. It's a 30Mb DL though.


It's a Good Thing that a lot of these docuemnts are being made avaialbel
online as PDF... but a lot is lost in the translation. Not only image
quality (some are REALLY bad), but also... just the *feel* of having the
actual book. Sorta sucks the soul out of a book.



When I was a kid I must have checked that thing out of the local
library a dozen times. I'd tried to find it for sale on ebay or
amazon on night with no luck and then found the pdf one online.
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Old March 27th 04, 06:17 AM
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On 27 Mar 2004 01:35:05 GMT, Jim Davis
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Scott Ferrin wrote:

Just FYI if the Space Settlements, A Design Study is the one
done in 1974 it is available in PDF format online. It's a 30Mb
DL though.


Can you post a link? I've only seen it in html format he

http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSe...udy/Table_of_C
ontents1.html

Jim Davis



http://www.lsmd.caltech.edu/ae107/class/SP-413.PDF





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Old March 27th 04, 07:31 PM
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Scott Ferrin wrote:

Can you post a link?


http://www.lsmd.caltech.edu/ae107/class/SP-413.PDF


Thanks!!

Jim Davis
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Old March 28th 04, 08:03 AM
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Scott Lowther wrote:

It's a Good Thing that a lot of these docuemnts are being made avaialbel
online as PDF... but a lot is lost in the translation. Not only image
quality (some are REALLY bad), but also... just the *feel* of having the
actual book. Sorta sucks the soul out of a book.


Spoken like a true salesman! :-)
I can still remember getting my copy of that book when I was young; it
had all sorts of fascinating things in it; and I could never understand
why we didn't build any of those SSTO vehicles rather than the Shuttle;
the giant surface-launched Mars ship is really something!

Pat

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Old March 28th 04, 01:15 PM
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Pat Flannery wrote:

Scott Lowther wrote:

It's a Good Thing that a lot of these docuemnts are being made avaialbel
online as PDF... but a lot is lost in the translation. Not only image
quality (some are REALLY bad), but also... just the *feel* of having the
actual book. Sorta sucks the soul out of a book.


Spoken like a true salesman! :-)


More like a *buyer.* Yes, I coudl download a text version of Milton's
"Paradise Lost," for example, but I'd much rather read my giant 1903
edition with the Gustave Dore illustrations...


the giant surface-launched Mars ship is really something!


It's a ROMBUS, as was the Ithacus (originaly, and creepily, called the
"Icarus"). An all-round useful critter....

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Old March 28th 04, 06:49 PM
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Scott Lowther wrote:


It's a ROMBUS, as was the Ithacus (originaly, and creepily, called the
"Icarus"). An all-round useful critter....


Could you imagine the amount of air drag that thing would have generated
during ascent? Streamlined it's not.

Pat

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Old March 28th 04, 07:51 PM
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Pat Flannery wrote:

Scott Lowther wrote:


It's a ROMBUS, as was the Ithacus (originaly, and creepily, called the
"Icarus"). An all-round useful critter....


Could you imagine the amount of air drag that thing would have generated
during ascent? Streamlined it's not.


At that size it hardly matters.

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