Re: NASA 'Scramjet' Soars at Almost 7,000 Mph

From: ZZBunker (zzbunker_at_netscape.net)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: 20 Nov 2004 01:58:29 -0800

"Benign Vanilla" <BVanillaREMOVE@tibetanbeefgarden.com> wrote in message news:<301k7mF2r03h8U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> "Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
> news:419B84D0.CAF893BD@hate.spam.net...
> <snip>
> > > Like its predecessors, the X-43A will not be recovered from the ocean.
> > [snip]
> >
> > I have a real problem with that. If I were an engineer or a
> > metallurgist I'd be dripping saliva wanting to get my hands on the
> > scramjet channel and airframe leading edges after the flight. There
> > is no reason why the thing could not be recovered either sea or land.
> > Recovery of Space Scuttle SSBs costs more than their fabrication.
> > When the experiment is exceptional and telemetry is kept but physical
> > evidence is destroyed, one immediately suspects fraud.
>
> If build + fly + recover > budget and build + fly <= budget, I'd go with
> build + fly any time.

  We know that, that's why NASA, like AT&T, and Microsoft only hires
  managers. They are America's gift to the physics of things
  that burn California grass faster than Florida can burn photons.

>
> BV.