To: commish
exhaust velocities from 60,000 to 80,000 meters per second Wow. That translates to 3750 to 5000 Miles per second, or a speed of 13.5 to 18 MILLION Miles per hour. Or 2.7% of the speed of light
Not quite.
80,000 meters per second is 80Km per second which is about 50 miles per second not 5000 miles per second.
49 posted on
11/20/2003 10:10:42 PM PST by
Straight Vermonter
(We secretly switched ABC news with Al-Jazeera, lets see if these people can tell the difference.)
To: Straight Vermonter; Junior
80,000 meters per second is 80Km per second which is about 50 miles per second not 5000 miles per second. UGH! Sad thing is I am a Computer Programmer and a math Major and did not catch myself making such a silly error. But hey, whats a factor of 10 among friends. :-)
70 posted on
11/21/2003 4:48:59 AM PST by
commish
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