Posted on 03/19/2006 6:29:28 AM PST by thousand dollar hamburger
I think he has a sincere desire to help everyone. he has even gone out of his way to embrace people like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. He does not hold grudges as shown by his willingness to bend over backwards to allow terrorist supporting nations to operate our ports. We need this type of benevolent leader.
Our President is not a cheapskate, as he has opened up our budget to give to anyone who might need anything.
Aliens from all nations are welcomed into our great country without having to deal with mundane bureaucratic State approval. Cutting government red tape -- that's the Bush way!
Yes, our Prseident even realizes that occupying as many countries around the world as possible is the best way to spread American ideals.
We are truly lucky to have this great man. I suggest that at 10:00 AM EST, we all stand up in unison and shout -- HOORAY FOR BUSH!!!
Goodnight, Face!
good night to you both, and Happy Easter
Absolutely.
One reason I chose Antarctica was to keep the ice frozen, and pure. I don't think this would help the irrigation projects, or even be wanted there.
However, the increased structural strength would be of immense benefit.
Most electro-magnetic cannon research has been stymied by the solid wall of atmosphere that the projectile hits as soon as it leaves the launcher.
They didn't seem to realise that it was a problem of scale, and that once they scaled it up appropriately, they would have ground to Near Earth Orbit for pennies per pound.
I envision wrapping the ice with aluminum sheathing, and strapping, and then recycling that into spaceships once it is arrived in orbit.
Now the question is, what to do with wood pulp? It could be converted into cheap construction material, but perhaps another substance might be useful also, like fiberglass, or something.
Seems worthy of more study.
one could conceivably use a powerful laser or particle cannon to rip a vacuum trhough the air along the flight path of the projectile, and use careful shaping of its nose to widen the "hole" in the atmosphere, reducing or completely avoiding the problem of air resistance.
the wood pulp would be useful as a source of both carbon dioxide and biomass in the terraforming project.
oi!
where'd'ja go?
(Page 189) "... answer the question about the guns as well.” She smiled.
“Ah, yes. No guns. Well, I guess that’s true. Let me explain. The propulsion system is a radical departure from the tried and true. Our principal design engineer, Angela Morgan, compiled centuries of flight test data and design innovations to come up with something that fit our application very well.
Our power plant will be a compact, pulsed fusion engine with a radial design. The energy output for its weight is enormous. With advanced high-energy laser energy, we do away with the need for fuel while in the atmosphere. Basically, the craft has a skin of precision engineered micro-spikes, which draw in air, compress it, blast it with precise amounts of energy, and produce a jet of hot vapor to propel the craft.
That same high output laser energy is sent forward to prepare the undisturbed atmosphere in front of the ship to expand and get out of the way, so we can slip through without pushing the air, and increase our speed.
We call it stacked laminar slipstreaming, and the best example is the difference between trying to push a sharp metal rod through sheet after sheet of paper, or sliding between the pages.
If you put a target of any kind in front of it, it can make a hole through the target as easily as it makes a hole through the air! Besides, it will fly faster than any bullets we could fire!”
damn, I must be a genius: I came up with that solution off the cuff (synthesis, really: I have long known what thunder really is)
where did that excerpt come from?
Then again, if we could keep the cargo vessels intact, they would already be spaceships, eh?
We might need to cover them with plastic and aluminum, to prevent sublimation, but we could possibly launch single stage to orbit vessels that would arrive on station fully loaded and fueled.
I need something that would make an effective cargo ship for Venerian Carbon Dioxide.
I smell synergy and serendipity here.
Then again, if we could keep the cargo vessels intact, they would already be spaceships, eh?
We might need to cover them with plastic and aluminum, to prevent sublimation, but we could possibly launch single stage to orbit vessels that would arrive on station fully loaded and fueled.
I need something that would make an effective cargo ship for Venerian Carbon Dioxide.
I smell synergy and serendipity here.
Heh, heh, heh. The book I wrote and published two years ago.
Details available on my about page. I tried to get you to acquire it at least a year and a half ago. You could give it to your sister, and make at least three people happy.
um... seems to me that, if we went with a high pulp content in the pykrete mix (say: 25% by mass) the pulp would form an effective barrier to sublimation after the first few inches were sucked dry by vacuum.
this is one aspect that can readily be tested in a lab here on the ground, yanno:
pykrete's dead easy to whip up.
do you have a means of constructing a modest vacuum chamber?
Oops! Sorry for the double post.
My finger accidentally hit the carriage return, after I had hit post. I didn't know that would happen.
ehhh hehhehheh... gotta go look up that book, I see.
gotta watch that carriage return lever - and don't mess up the compound rest!
oh, typewriter, not turret-lathe
It might also benefit us to stir in some recycled polystyrene.
Get rid of some leftover coffee cups, you know?
Any large bell jar and vacuum pump should do the job. High schools should still have them.
It says "enter" on my keyboard, but it's more of a doorbell than a portal.
ISBN 1418440892
Everybody will say they have it, but nobody does. They have to print it for you.
It's book one of a series of four that I have finished, but it's the only one published. My bootstrap program didn't work out quite the way I had planned.
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