Posted on 04/12/2009 12:15:48 PM PDT by 1believer
# De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. (1 result) 11 Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi
# Luna habitabilis (1 result) 24 Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago.
It'd depend on orientation to the horizon. Parallel, you'll skip. Perpendicular, you'll lawn dart.
Dunno... I still thought we were gonna sky-hook in on a set of tethers. Speeds would be slow enough there'd be no appreciable heat build up from friction and aerobreaking. Drop us down, inflate the balloon as the millibars rise, store up reaction mass, use the motors to achieve escape v on the way out.
It would probably look pretty good on me if I could wear my contacts, but I need the gas-permeable because of sicca syndrome. And I’m at that stage in life where I care about my looks, but don’t care how other people feel about my looks!!
The idea is ease of care. I need to be able to wash it and wear it out the door so it looks like I’m a real person.
I need to have my hair be effortless, too.
But you have a reason...or SEVERAL reasons. I just have an excuse!!
They’re our heads, so if we want to be bald, it’s nobody’s else’s business!
LOL!
NOW yer talkin’!!
I’m naturally a night owl, so for me daytime is unnatural.
I was thinking the sci-fi movie Jacobs Ladder.
A nice electric device that doubles as a high voltage cattle prod if need be.
Being that these demonic noise makers belong to my brother, they’re impervious to electrical hazards.
(He peed on an electric fence!)
Whoah.. long time no see.
Welcome to the current incarnation of the Undead Thread.
Feel free to add literary destruction to the randomness happening around you.
You’ve entered a place where you can let your hair down and relax.
But not too much, we’re running low on spatulas to scrape overly relaxed people into the people shaped molds.
Not to mention the slavering zombies who are waiting for the leftovers....
I washed all the spatulas! What happened to them?
Good verbal description. Perhaps I wasn't entirely clear. Only the rim of the outer hull rotates for heat dissipation, not the whole saucer. Then just behind that are the counter-rotating rings like a flattened squirrel-cage fan. One reason they are counter-rotating is to control buildup of excess rotational energy. We will want to change direction from time to time.
"Parallel, you'll skip. Perpendicular, you'll lawn dart."
'Xactly. We want to gradually adjust how aggressively we go into the atmosphere.
"I still thought we were gonna sky-hook in on a set of tethers. Speeds would be slow enough there'd be no appreciable heat build up from friction and aerobreaking. Drop us down, inflate the balloon as the millibars rise, store up reaction mass, use the motors to achieve escape v on the way out."
More confusion in my descriptions. We need to be able to do both. Bit of a chicken-and-egg situation on the Venus mission.
Early on, it will be useful to position Venus Celestial Stations without the benefit of the Rotavator. That's because we need some of the atmospheric capabilities to even build the Rotavator. Structurally, we'll do what we can with available steel, aluminum, glass or its equivalent, and carbon fiber and nanotubes.
But we'll need mass for its proper operation, and that will have to come from lunar soil, asteroidal rock, or Venerian atmosphere.
The Venus atmosphere would be closest and easiest to use for building up mass. Even a partially-built Rotavator could handle a shuttle capture or launch, but a full contingent Flying Saucer would be a bit massive initially. Remember, it's configured with seven on-board shuttles for thrust maneuvering.
So we will want to able to enter Venus atmosphere from orbit or near-orbit speed with the Flying Saucers. I have been speaking of only one, but that's just speaking generically. We'll have multiple Venus Stations once the operation is in full swing. I've been working the math for twenty-four.
If this seems ambitious, it's simply part of the ongoing plans dating back nearly five years. We want a presence in space, capable of doing ambitious planetary and system-wide projects, including terraforming and asteroid redirection.
Whether it becomes necessary to have a functional space defense force we will have to evaluate. But we will have the capability.
You don't still have any fingerpaint, do you?
I haven't looked lately ...
*ahem*
(I used the fingerpaint for my next project...)
Fine with me, I was always having to keep James and Vlad from painting Pat with it.
Did your project also involve spatulas, or is that something totally different?
Ecktually, the spatulas work remarkable well with finger paints.
Vlad and James will have some ghostly colors when next they try to paint Pat. He IS the King of Color!!
Oooh, maybe he’ll set off radiation alarms and make microwave ovens freak out!
I’ll get more spatulas next time I’m at Wal-mart.
Time to put kidz to bed, yippee! Then I have to sew more patches on the Scout uniforms, while it’s cool in the house.
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