To: Dead Corpse
Good morning. I see we haven’t left for Venus yet; the catz would have mentioned it.
My husband is on a trip today and tomorrow, so we slept late (after 7!).
1,846 posted on
10/27/2008 6:09:21 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(I'll give a cheesecake to anyone who asks a Palin-basher, "How many abortions have you had?")
To: Tax-chick
1,847 posted on
10/27/2008 6:33:54 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(I'll give a cheesecake to anyone who asks a Palin-basher, "How many abortions have you had?")
To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob
We're still working out some issues. If our obital velocity needs to be 86400 KPM/h, we're going to incurring a whole lot of aerodrag if we use the skyhook tether option. Even at 50km above Venus' surface. At 1 Atmo relative, even accounting for CO
2/SO
2 density, we'll still be doing Mach 72.
Even using the "balloon gondola" idea, we'll still need to transition our orbital speed downward, and retain the ability to get off world again when we're done sightseeing...
I wonder if we couldn't set up a plasma slipstream effect. Encase the Castle in a huge plasma bubble that would give us an effective fraction of the drag to deal with... The firework oughta be gorgeous. Like being "inside" a candle flame...
1,849 posted on
10/27/2008 9:47:20 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
To: Tax-chick; Dead Corpse
(Robt causally notes that, usually, one (or two) sleeps later than 7:00 PM when the husband is NOT on a trip out of town ....
1,853 posted on
10/27/2008 10:19:49 AM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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