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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au
Date: 
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:29:45 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Selçuk Göre writes:
No, it's not..:-) At STP (Standard temperature and pressure, 1atm and
273K if IIRC), only 22.4 lt. of any gas would have 6.022x10^23
molecules.

<snip>

I might be
wrong about the numbers, it was 12 years ago, but the idea is quite true
I think.

Nope, you're quite right (it was least year for me and I remember perfectly).

The main problem when traveling through space at such high velocities is
the wear caused by the inter-whatever dust particles that impacting your
ship at similar velocities.

Zactly! Every little dust particle can be really harsh on the ship.

-Shiri



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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I have heard that space craft with wings would become torn apart by the impact of flying in space. How do you know that these conditions will exist in space? People thought many centuries earlier that the earth is flat yet is is almost (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) No, it's not..:-) At STP (Standard temperature and pressure, 1atm and 273K if IIRC), only 22.4 lt. of any gas would have 6.022x10^23 molecules. Your number given above is quite negligible when compared to this I think. You must consider (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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