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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:40:13 GMT
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In article <GFIB4D.EE5@lugnet.com>, Jesse Alan Long
<joyous4god2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I also have these wings on my space craft because I want
> balance in the atmosphere and I do not want to spin endlessly in space
> because without wings, a space craft would spin and spin in space forever
> and the only alternative that I know that is possible to counteract the spin
> is to use support thrusters on the space craft but these support thrusters
> are designed for smaller craft and can not handle the large bulk of larger
> space craft (unless there was a pratical way to build larger support thrusters).
Quick, someone alert NASA! How, oh how, will they ever dock with the
ISS when it is spinning away like mad?!
I guess Dennis Tito's reported illness when boarding the station wasn't
due to weightlesness after all...
<snip>
> There are exceptions to this rule, such as the space craft of Star Trek
> and
> the Millennium Falcon of the Star Wars Trilogy and other such space
> craft of
> that nature because they are round and the whole space craft generally
> acts
> as a giant wing and the fact that their engines are located in a central
> point.
Oh, so *that's* why flying saucers are round. ;]
jk
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| (...) Perhaps Mister Tito ate some food that he should not have ate before entering space? The reason that the International Space Station, or Mir before that system, do not spin around as a person would expect is that the giant solar panels also (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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