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To: Jack Hydrazine

All they need to do on these landers is add a helium balloon to deploy to lift the craft upright when necessary ......


16 posted on 11/13/2014 4:37:13 PM PST by mikrofon (Because 'BTTT' is just Boring .... BUMP)
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To: mikrofon

What is it that you expect a helium baloon to do in zero atmosphere and micro-gravity? It’s not going to be lighter than vacuum, so it isn’t going to provide any lift.


18 posted on 11/13/2014 5:51:09 PM PST by EasySt (Time to build that gulch...)
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To: mikrofon

You would think, as cheap as they are, they would pack a skyhook.


19 posted on 11/13/2014 6:02:43 PM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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