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"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@rmspam...mspam.com> wrote in message news:JA4GuG.E05@lugnet.com... (...) Jeff, your post met my sentiments exactly. I'm really glad to see no national flags on the "Mars Mission" sets - and none on the "Life on Mars" (...) (17 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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First off, (having missed the start of this thread), I really wasn't all that shook up by the announcment for the simple reason that the announcement doesn't mean anything. Any more than it did with the previous "we're going to Mars" pushes. (...) (...) (17 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Just wait till we need the water... Sorry to intrude spacers ; ) God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Actually, exactly the point I was trying to make (you just made it shorter). If there's an economic or resource-driven reason for doing something, commercial interests do a great job. But if you want to go somewhere, trying to invent (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Tourism will be the initial market for suborbital space transports. The prime example of this sort of craft will be Space Ship Two (Virgin Galactic). (...) Actually, I thought that there was already some concern on the part of scientists that (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Actually space manufacturing will likly be a big business sooner (as in the next few decades) than people might think. Due to the "instant" cooling space permits it is possible to make super strong alloys that are physically impossible to do (...) (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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[somewhere far away in the internet, a poor soul struggles valiently to stay on-topic... "it's not LEGO!!" he screams, but the siren song of inccorect physics draws him screaming back into the fray once more...] (...) I still have my doubts. It's (...) (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I would add *yet* to that. (...) Hmmm... I don't know a town layout on the floor with a "space elevator" to a manufacturing platform way up on a shelf could make a really cool albeit parts intensive MOC. -Mike Petrucelli (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) The problem is rockets use reaction mass, and need to carry it along, so the rocket equation enters into everything you do. And honestly a rocket is not a very good way to use the energy: you have to launch at high speed (rocket equation (...) (17 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I did some preliminary studies for building a space elevator. I think with some very significant selective compression of the diameter (and length) of the cable, the anchor station and the cable cars could be done. I was considering the LoM (...) (17 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) On the other hand "Space Ship One" already surpassed NASA in efficiency with the use of a "carrier plane" to get a much higher start. Building a plane specifically designed for high altitude super sonic launching of "rocket ships" is one easy (...) (17 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) When I made the suggestion I was picturing a really long version of the 6394 Metro Park & Service Tower "elevator" mechanism. I guess it would work better to use technic racks with a worm gear driven elevator. That could even be motorized. My (...) (17 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Yep, but it came no where *near* orbital velocity - about a factor of 30 to low in energy. I agree, it's a nice mechanism to get away from the atmosphere problem, but so do balloons (for a far lower cost, actually). no offense to Space Ship (...) (17 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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