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try "anti-matter" fuel cells...(use your imagination here)...you could travel to mars and back on like 1 atom of it. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You too? (...) Oops. Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Assume that a mile is 1.6 km, because dammit, you don't calculate these things in imperial (you'd need g in miles/sec. Ugh.) (...) All right. x == v0 * t + 0.5 * a * t x == 57.6e9 m v0 == 0 (this means I'm calculating from reaching orbit, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) about (...) take (...) if you thought THAT was amazing, try it to Pluto... or to Alpha Centauri! RAH (1) did a science fact article on this, way before most of us were born. It drives home how fast you can go if you can just keep accelerating. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Paper mache rockets? The delivery system burns up with the fuel it contains? __ :-O (Edvard Munch's "The Scream") -- Bruce (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) OK, can that idea then. So, what about flour and water mixtures? :o) --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Solid fuel rockets are essentially big fireworks: ya light 'em and they burn until nothing is left. They are great bang for your buck, but they don't last long. And in your scenario, you still have to get the boosters up to the space station. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, what about small unmanned craft for overnight package delivery? (FedEx in Space ;-) How much fuel is in one of those space shuttle booster rockets and how much of that is wasted getting to escape velocity? I bet if a small rocket were (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow, cool, I get just over 1 day (~30 hours), which is probably short enough to ignore the fact that the source and target are both moving. I used s=½at² and solved for t. For s I used 5.8 x 10^10 m (36 x 10^6 miles) and for a I used 9.8 m/s². (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I hope this is the right place to ask this. Is it possible to save Real Audio files to listen to them without being online? If so how? Thanks Ryan (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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