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To: LibWhacker

I would imagine that would be tricky in the thin atmosphere.


2 posted on 03/16/2018 8:17:48 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I did a paper on that exact thing in school. 175 pages.
It is VERY difficult to do. The atmosphere is about 1/2 of 1% of ours. That means you need approx 200 times the lift that a earthbound helicopter needs. Ouch. Oh, and we would like to carry a bunch of instruments too to measure stuff. And then transfer that information to something that will send it to us. And then recharge our batteries and do it again. Complicated hardly describes it. Fun paper though.


8 posted on 03/16/2018 8:32:21 AM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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