Posted on 10/27/2005 8:31:33 AM PDT by The Zontron 7000
I have about an hour of free time and I've chosen to spend it here.
What's new and exciting?
I'll get back to you.
Oh, the Curmudgeon! I'll be right back!
Nothing really new and exciting. I'm still working on more problems for my class.
Trying to get myself psyched up to work on the minutes of last week's meeting. My new boss is interested in seeing them, so I'm trying to get them done now, instead of a couple of months before next year's meeting (in Paris, if there is a Paris).
Ah it's a secret! Now where did those clairvoyance pills of mine go..........
NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Please in the name of all that is holy, DO NOT let the French get their hands on your work!!!! That quit possibly would be the single greatest threat to world peace in the 21st Century!
Well, to world air-conditioning perhaps. But never fear: We met a few years back in Lyon and didn't pick up a French member then. There must be some reason why...
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.~John Maynard Keynes
It's not very funny, though.
Do you have other interests?
Not really. I have my betta, but that's about it.
I shall devote some thought to it today while child #1 and I sit in the Dr's waiting room.
Ciao!
Okay.
See you later.
Later...
Need more info. What have you already tried?
And, of course, I show up just as everyone else is leaving...
Any mathematicians around?
I'm double checking my calculations, and it appears to me that we have overbuilt by a sufficient factor, meaning that we will have as much power as we will require for our mission to Mars.
Here's the check factor, an analysis of Nuclear Rocket Engine performance. http://www.nuclearspace.com/a_liberty_ship10.htm
Now here's our data. The as yet not absolutely named vessel, henceforth dubbed UTS Stunehenge, consists of four sections.
1) The castle enclosure, also known as the flying castle. Formerly a piece of real estate that was lifted and flown away as previously described in "Moving" on my home page, the castle grounds occupy a circular area of one mile radius. That's 5280 feet, for those of you in Rio Linda.
The bottom of the castle looks like a two-mile diameter wok, with a transparent covering of the same shape, and a band about two hundred feet high at the circumference.
Assuming an average height of five hundred feet, I get this as about ninety million pounds. Does this figure seem to be in the ball-park?
2) The balancing pods, the IGGP and the HTM, would by definition have the same mass.
3) All of these elements are connected by the Thrust Ring, which I will estimate at thirty million pounds.
4) The weight of the Shuttle/Thrusters, 240,000 pounds each. A total of 600 of these, each with two GCNR motors, for another 144 million pounds.
This gives me a grand total of 444,000,000 pounds take-off weight, with total thrust equal to 1440,000,000 pounds thrust. My math tells me that our initial take-off thrust will be about three and a half gees.
Well duh! What do you think is the secret to world peace?
AIR CONDITIONING!
Let the French get their hands on it and we will never get the stench out!
>> Hopefully the frog will jump out of the cauldron...
LOL! Sorry, but my waning hope in frogs grabbed the loud handle and punched out over Paris eleven days ago.
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