LONG LIVE RED CHINA (Would you like your troll mein with soft or crispy noodles?)

12/26/05 | C.L. Gartman

[tuliptree76]

It seems like it lately!

[sionnsar]

Paper done yet?

Long ways from it. Made some pretty good strides today, but I still have one big section to complete, and some ancillary material to review and possibly add -- and with that Part 1 will be done. Then it's on to Part 2, but that looks like it will be mostly a repeat of material from an earlier paper a few years ago. I may have a little new material to add, but not much.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Only an a$$hole would post that on FR!!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[stephenjohnbanker]

Intermission

[sionnsar]

Yahoo, I guess. Virus gone. Interior network shields up -- permanently. Now I could get on with the paper but dinner's ready, I'm tired, and January hits with a vengeance tomorrow.

'Night all...

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Indeed!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Goodnight sion!!

[NicknamedBob]

Flight Procedure Update:

We are rotating, and we are moving away from the Earth. Our next maneuver of thrust will be back toward the Earth, in order to swing past the Moon again, and build up yet more speed, as well as swing around to our final trajectory.

Picture a kid on a skateboard or bike, in a swimming pool style skate arena, where he has looped up to the tip of the pool, doubles back, and goes across the center with very high speed.

That is what we are doing, and it requires us to supplement our fall rate with some reaction gases at high speed -- a jet reaction, or rocket reaction. Rocket thrust, from our Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines.

They are on turntables, mounted on the cylindrical surfaces of the Thrust Ring, so they could easily be directed around to the correct orientation and fired. However, there is a complication.

Habitats A and B are attached on the outside of the Thrust Ring, and they will swing naturally to accommodate the new thrust vectoring, with only a slight increase in the apparent gravity to be felt by the occupants.

The Castle Enclosure, on the other hand, is suspended by two jointed and cradling arms from the inside of the Thrust Ring. Reversing thrust would cause those arms to fetch up against the Thrust Ring itself as the Castle Enclosure swung around to the opposite tack.

That would not be good.

This has been anticipated, and we have a procedure to compensate. While the Castle Habitat, and Habitats A and B continue rotating, the Thrust Ring will turn over, bringing the Thrust Ring around to the other side of the supporting arms for the Castle, and allowing thrust to be reversed along our path without the problem described above.

Most of the material which is rotating is in the habitats. The Thrust Ring contains only a fraction of it. Nevertheless, this will be a confusing, uncomfortable, and slightly dangerous maneuver for anyone inside the Thrust Ring.

Accordingly, all possible operations not requiring supervisory personnel in immediate attendance on the Thrust Ring are being shut down and temporarily secured. The Thrust Ring, and all GCNR/REs will be evacuated, with the exception of an emergency skeleton crew in selected, non-stressful locations.

The belaying cables will be detached from Habitats A and B until the maneuver is completed, and then re-attached. (These are safety and force-dampening cables.)

This Thrust Ring turnover will have to be repeated once we reach the orbit of Mars also, in order to safely decelerate into Martian Orbit.

Because our Emergency Evacuation Procedures are impacted by this maneuver, we ask that all operations which might in any way affect the need for evacuation be considered most carefully, and either not begun, or suspended until we can resume our normal safety profile.

Those of you who wish to observe this Thrust Ring turnover first-hand are invited to simply find a clear space and look up through your habitat’s canopy. It should be visually equivalent to passing under the Golden Gate Bridge.

The procedure will be initiated at the top of the hour, and should be completed in a little over an hour. It is recommended that spherical elevator passage between Habitats be restricted to emergency travel only, until the procedure has been completed.

Thank You.

[MEG33]

Aye Aye, Sir!

[SALChamps03]

What a nice little communist you are.

[EsmeraldaA]

SO; we're not there yet?

*sigh*

Thank goodness!

Will do as ordered....er...suggested.

[NicknamedBob]

We should arrive at Mars in late April.

Think about this: A couple of volunteers are riding in GCNR/REs at the points which will pass through zero gee during the turnover.

Their worlds will literally turn upside down.

Admittedly, they're only at a relatively low gravity gradient, but it should still be fun and interesting if you can stand a really slow speed loop-the-loop!

We have them there as another safety precaution, in case the gears which are turning this massive structure get stuck. We could disengage the electrical operation, and proceed with a reaction drive to get back into alignment if necessary.

In the meantime, they're getting one heckuva show!

[EsmeraldaA]

April sounds okay for arrival.

So, they are volunteers huh?

I wondered about that.

[NicknamedBob]

Well, there are those among us who feel that going through the rigorous training procedures to "fly" a space ship which is bigger than a 777, and more than twice as powerful as the Space Shuttle, and that is Nuclear powered, is worth the challenge.

I have a hunch some of them may be interested in doing some rock jumping in a few months.

Be cool to have your own asteroid, eh?

[EsmeraldaA]

*Be cool to have your own asteroid,eh?*

Yes, but you do know what follows...

"Mine is bigger that yours"

"Yeah? mine is better situated"

"What are you two talking about? Mine has the best rocks ever!"

[freedumb2003]

You need to get MIDIs of any of the Alan Parsons Projecy albums to goie the proper background to these great descriptions.

[NicknamedBob]

There should be enough to go around...

... ESA's Infrared Space Observatory, ISO. The ISO Deep Asteroid Search indicates that there are between 1.1 million and 1.9 million 'space rocks' larger than 1 kilometre in diameter in the so-called 'main asteroid belt' ...

[EsmeraldaA]

More to my point. We are greedy by nature.....

Am I in an annoying mood or what?

Hehe hhe hehe heeh

[NicknamedBob]

"You need to get MIDIs of any of the Alan Parsons Projecy albums ..."

Try this!