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LOL:) OL J R

Gotta do SOMETHING to justify that $150 billion dollar neverending boondoggle known as ISS... Guess studying twins is as good as any...

More "peeing in jars, looking at stars"... LOL:)

OL J R

Hear, hear! Unfortunately I think that an "email type" subscription to the forum is still the best. I know YORF has taken a lot of heat for that over the years, but honestly with better spambots I think it's the best way to weed out the chaff. If someone's too lazy to hit a link to ask for...

If it had ever been used in real life, it would literally have been the end of the world, anyway, as it was a weapon of an all-out nuclear war. Humankind would have been reduced to perhaps a handful of people in very remote parts of the world, the only areas that by sheer chance escaped radioactive ...

Haven't heard of the nuclear ramjet concept, but it would seem to me that flying at treetop level, where you are more likely to get something sucked into the intake isn't the most reliable course of action. Considering the extremely high temperature of the reactor, and the fact that the amount of r...

"Give me a lever long enough and I'll move the world"... Yes, it's POSSIBLE. BUT, is it PRACTICAL?? Methinks not. Get the thrust up to about 100,000 lbs and then we'll talk again. Ounces or a few pounds of thrust ain't gonna cut it because of the delta-t problem (takes too long to accelera...

LOL:) Later! OL J R

13 kilowatts= about 17 horsepower (1kw=1.34 horsepower) Saturn V= 150 MILLION horsepower. SO, I think they've got a long way to go. It doesn't really add up. Lots of folks have riding lawnmowers with bigger engines than 17 horsepower. Now, imagine trying to accelerate something the mass of a fully l...

More like an incorrectly ground mirror... LOL:)

OL J R

LOL:) It's NASA... hypocrisy is their middle name...

They're the *GUBMINT*... it doesn't HAVE to make sense!

Later! OL J R