Re: The Cold Equations


Brad Guth wrote:
> >Aluminum, BTW, has had metal fatigue problems as well as melting ones.
> >Not a good material for rockets of any kind. Titanium, on the other
> >hand, is extremely stress tolerant.
>
> >Ceramic can be laser applied -- with a molecular bond -- to metal.
> >And, you say, that metal can be plasma applied to composite. So,
> >ceramic on composite with metal as the binder may be possible, even
> >desirable. It could even be done in layers. Interesting.
> That's all very true. The problem clearly isn't with these concepts, as
> it's the gauntlet of disinformation and/or the taboo/nondisclosure
> (need-to-know) basis within this incest of such a brown-nosed cesspool
> of bigotry, arrogance and greed that has more Usenet heathen potential
> than Hitler and of a Pope going postal over Cathars.


'Some' usenet users aren't endowed with adequate thinking facilities.
They see pictures of aliens and say that they can't see anything.
Maybe they didn't put their glasses on. Old age, bad diet, and
forgetting can become a problem.

New materials confuse 'some' of them as well. Aluminum replaced wood
and canvass as the material of choice for aircraft. Now that we are
into space vehicles we need to go one better and use titanium alloy
along with composite and ceramic.


> We need our own semi-private and thus moderated work groups that'll
> seek out and essentially recruit from the better half of this
> intellectual cesspool. Actually, we might be limited to just 1% of
> what's available, since at least 99% seem to be on a mainstream status
> quo vendetta of their knowing thy enemy so as to be continually
> snookering thy humanity.
>
> Personally, I believe your rigid-spaceship has potential of being all
> it can be. What we need are commercial investors with vision and a
> serious need for speed, which may or may not involve those SSMEs. A
> serious prototype shouldn't be all that insurmountable.

Eight billion dollars is cheap compared to what NASA is charging
Congress for some 'old' capsule and parachute rigs. For 50 billion
dollars I'll not only build a couple of interplanetary ships but fight
the Aliens for landing rights on Mars and Venus.

NASA wants 105 billion and 12 years to build the parachute/capsules.


tomcat

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