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  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) a (...) difference (...) You use Hydrogen gas as the coolant on a nuclear reactor, then vent it out the backside ('hot' as in thermally hot, not radioactive) The radiation from it is not all that intense...space is a vast area, and radiation (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Real Audio files
 
(...) I originally did this, but it is only a small clip of the song. Is there anyway to find out where a particular file is located so that I have the address for it so that I could create a link in a temporary page using NOF or MSFP? I've done (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) This is my cue to chant "The ringworld is unstable! the ringworld is unstable!", right? Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) I refer you to: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) How do those work? and how much fallout do they leave behind, hanging in space, waiting for the next vehicle to pass through? I mean, it's not like radiation shielding isn't difficult enough already.. Anyway, what was it again, Project Orion? (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Real Audio files
 
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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
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)
 
  Re: Real Audio files
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Real Audio files
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) (Unless you believe in subspace ruptures. ;) --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
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)
 
  Re: Real Audio files
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Real Audio files
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) 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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