Re: [FWD] El-Cheapo X-Prize Contender Goes >BOOM< at launch

From: dave schneider (d_schneider_at_emulex.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: 9 Aug 2004 14:28:45 -0700

OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:45:43 +0100, Jonathan Silverlight
> <jsilverlight@spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> Jud McCranie > ><youknowwhat.mccranie@adelphia.net> writes
> >>On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:46:29 -0500, OM
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>>...And here I thought those Estes "D" engines were supposed to be
> >>>safe:
> >>
> >>I think they were Estes "F" engines.
> >>
> >>Anyone want to ride that thing? Not me!
> >
> >Apart from anything else, how do you squeeze three astronauts into
> >something only 38 inches across? Even Mercury was twice that diameter.
>
> ...I suspect they were doing what we did with those toy soldier
> payloads we sent up on those clear tube upper stages - stack them
> standing up.
>
> OM

Sheesh, you don't know anything about the Pacific Northwest, duyah?
This is the land of potlatches ("yes sir, and how many sewing machines
did you say you were ordering?") and where the totem pole blossoms.

The Raven perches on the shoulder of the Beaver who squats on the
shoulders of the Bear, who has short legs anyway.

(No, OM, not *that* kind of "squat"!)

/dps

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