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Ryan, MIDI files are not like audio files; they are a list of instructions that tell which instrument (from a known list) to play, how long and how loud each note is, etc). There's no automated way to convert recorded audio to MIDI. There ARE many (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I think the problem with long-burn-time solid fuel engines is that the nozzle heats up so much that it erodes rapidly. Typical liquid-fueled engines cool the nozzle with the fuel just before it's burned. IsThere some Space-Age (Pardon the ancient (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I didn't *say* the problem was realistic. OTOH, if you're interested in some powerful interplanetary propulsion devices, I've got an idea that just needs a few more giga-bucks to bring to completion ... Steve (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:FMt9In.55E@lugnet.com... (...) boosters (...) motors (...) burn (...) solid, (...) much (...) into (...) 1G (...) rocket, a (...) difference (...) Wow!..My first job was designing (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Of course, when you're going *that* far, you also have to count relativistic effects. Is '1g of acceleration' from the frame of the guy on the rocket, of the frame of the guy on Earth? (Important difference...) And then you have to figure out (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Steve Bliss wrote (...) It's not. And also it's not a straight line, nor is it flat. At best, you could slingshot off the moon with a grazing orbit (about 100m at perihelion, and hit atmosphere in less than 24 hours I think. Only once per orbit, and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) is. (...) I checked out the site. The only thing I can recommend to you is to download the *.wav included on the web site. It would accomplish the same goal as recording the file as you listen to it (which you've stated you can't do due to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) As". (...) The file that I want to save is at this page, and it has its own Real Player box on the page. (URL) I try to use the windows recording program I get a message saying that another program is recording. I haven't a cle what the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (Unless you believe in subspace ruptures. ;) --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, you can make them burn at almost any rate you want to. It is a question of how much exposed area there is to burn at once. The SRB motors have a * shaped hole in the middle of them right from top to bottom. This produces a very large (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jasper Said: (...) Isn't that what the NASA guy said when they lost contact with the last martian probe? :) (Running, Ducking, and hiding under something very soild...like down a mine shaft...after all, after 30 hrs at 1 G acceleration, I don't want (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) online? (...) Yeah, just click on the link (if it's on a web page) and choose "Save File As". If it's not on a web page, a.k.a you're selecting it from the Real Audio program's menu or directory, you could find the web page where it's located (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) No it doesn't. It takes a tremendous amount of CHEMICAL fuel, but you need to use something with a much higher specific impulse. The problem is that your chemical exhaust is going WAY too slow, hence you're not transferring much momentum. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right-Click on the link, save as.., look into the resulting .rm file with a text editor, copy the link you see there to your browser/favorite file-download program (I like GetRight, for my windows work), replace the pnm:// with http:// if (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't forget that the space shuttle accelerates with only a few g relative to earth, so that's (a few + 1) when applied in space. And as someone mentioned, unless you have manufacturing in space, or very cheap earth -> LEO methods (which is (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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