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To: FormerACLUmember
Suit also useful for surviving the stench when in the proximity of Daily Kos democrats.
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2 posted on
07/01/2007 9:14:59 AM PDT by
FormerACLUmember
(The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
To: FormerACLUmember
Wow. I would do it. Now that I’m pretty old anyway.
To: FormerACLUmember
And your descent trajectory is so predictable that you’re certain not to land in the middle of the Pacific,1000 miles from the nearest land?
7 posted on
07/01/2007 9:20:16 AM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: FormerACLUmember
Space diving has already been perfected. Master Chief says, "Been there, done that, bought the T-Shirt."
![](http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo2/Gallery/Print/EDGE_Cover_Oct02.jpg)
11 posted on
07/01/2007 9:23:14 AM PDT by
BigBlueJon
(Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas to bed.......Jack Bauer wears George W pajamas.)
To: FormerACLUmember
Unfortunately, I had to stop subscribing or buying Pop-sci when they became more politically oriented than technology oriented.
12 posted on
07/01/2007 9:23:57 AM PDT by
bolobaby
To: FormerACLUmember
![](http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/2007/06/spacedivers_main_485.jpg)
Al Gore looking for global warming.
13 posted on
07/01/2007 9:25:24 AM PDT by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: FormerACLUmember
Boba Fett?
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14 posted on
07/01/2007 9:25:58 AM PDT by
digger48
To: FormerACLUmember
hummmm...... no thanks......I’m good.
17 posted on
07/01/2007 9:27:50 AM PDT by
Ditter
To: FormerACLUmember
Project Manhigh. Col. Joe Kittenger became the first man to break the speed of sound without a plane.
18 posted on
07/01/2007 9:28:36 AM PDT by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: FormerACLUmember
I wrote a design doc for a video game based on a concept like this a number of years ago—maybe now it’s time to dust it off :)
20 posted on
07/01/2007 9:47:44 AM PDT by
ECM
(Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
To: FormerACLUmember
How you gonna keep cool enough in that thing when it begins to glow? It would have to be a lot thicker IMHO.
23 posted on
07/01/2007 10:08:05 AM PDT by
Sender
(Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.)
To: FormerACLUmember
Orbital skydiving was the plot device used in a Star Trek novel a while back where Kirk had to get to the surface of a planet ahead of the Klingons without using a shuttlecraft or transporter. Never thought I’d see anything about it outside of sci-fi tho!
24 posted on
07/01/2007 10:09:17 AM PDT by
Fire_on_High
(I am so proud of what we were...)
To: FormerACLUmember
25 posted on
07/01/2007 10:18:31 AM PDT by
fzx12345
(ACLU DELENDA EST)
To: FormerACLUmember
Starship Troopers jump suit.
26 posted on
07/01/2007 10:42:39 AM PDT by
glorgau
To: FormerACLUmember
There would also be a big liability problem if the chute doesn’t open. Imagine the kinetic energy of an adult human falling 60 miles: The landing would be a significant explosion, same principle as the so-called Rods from God.
32 posted on
07/01/2007 11:25:58 AM PDT by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: FormerACLUmember
Funny this article comes up today. I am leaving on a 2 day trip. I am an airline pilot and an instructor pilot. I am checking out a new Captain in one of our newest aircraft types. The new Captain is the current record holder for the most jumps in a 24 hour period. She was on the Army Golden Knights team - and she is the jumper for the 2009 attempt at a new high altitude jump record.
38 posted on
07/01/2007 11:45:12 AM PDT by
safisoft
(Give me Torah!)
To: FormerACLUmember
As a primary reentry method it has one big problem. What happens to your luggage???
It might be useful as an emergency back up system small enough to be added to other craft, but whether even that would be cost effective would depend on how often you predict the need, on how expensive it is to routinely lug their added mass to and from orbit, and on how high you set the value of the lives otherwise lost. The first can hopefully be estimated, the second is straightforward, but the third is touchy. It shouldn't be computed after the fact, as we too often do with disasters, but before the fact based on economic considerations and on comparisons to other risks we routinely accept. There would no shortage of capable volunteers for dangerous work in space if we lowered the standards to those of the first Cosmonauts instead of the astronomical standards now applied. Yes, we should highly value life, but if we value it too highly we become risk adverse to the point of preventing progress and are left with the often greatly underrated risks of maintaining the status quo.
To: FormerACLUmember
what a rush ..... you can be sure some army guy will be thinking ... how can I use this combat?
42 posted on
07/01/2007 1:00:10 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
To: FormerACLUmember
Starship Troopers drop capsules come to real life.
43 posted on
07/01/2007 1:02:17 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
To: FormerACLUmember
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!
Regards,
GtG
44 posted on
07/01/2007 3:00:52 PM PDT by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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