... What, they're not going to be greeted as liberators? Assuming that the taxpayers back home won't pay for a long war, you could always bring your own rope...
... No, torch missiles are only the "purest" expression in the sense of having no other mission than to slam into something while going really fast. I am...
... That should always be regarded as a bonus card, not to be counted on. ... Well, that's an option, but perhaps a horrendously expensive one, depending on...
... Or you could use a Rotovator to unclog the exit drain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_skyhook#Rotovators -HJC http://www.io.com/~hcobb ...
First, we're getting the Andermani fleet boxes in next week and will be shipping them the week after. Second, for any orders of $50 or more, we're offering...
SFCONSIM-LI was interested by the concept of a base or planet 'throwing' shuttles and other small craft out of the atmosphere, but can't find the thread of...
i am sure i have seen somewhere of plans to build maglev rails on moon to ship lunar oores to earth orbit possibly in a book called privateers cant remember...
... 'throwing' shuttles and other small craft out of the atmosphere, but can't find the thread of that. Does someone have a handle on it? ... I don't recall a...
... but ... we've ... orbiting ... payloads ... We've had several related discussions. In a nutshell, to get off Earth, you need high thrust - at least 1 g of...
... It seems to me that SpaceShipOne had good start on the best approach. A conventional jet first stage and maybe a nuclear thermal upper. The basic plan...
... Or beamed power. ... Laser launch systems sometimes use air for part of the trip, but they're mostly conventional rockets using beamed power to achieve a...
The other day I saw a documentary which mentioned the space cannon, starting with Newton's original idea, Jules Verne's use and finally Gerald Bull's efforts. ...
... Regrettably, torch drives, including any possible "clean" ones, probably could not work in an atmosphere, because the cold ambient gas would interfere with...
... Wasn't a small scramjet vehicle tested a few years ago, using a Pegasus to boost it up to Mach 8 or so? IIRC the first test failed, while at least one...
... As long as you can trigger whatever reaction you use to generate the heat, having air mixed into your remass isn't a big deal; it just increases your...
... I think you could have a problem with the mass of air being larger at any given moment than the mass of plasma you're trying to heat, so you end up (for...
... Sure. The presence of air may well kill the fusion reaction. However, most torch drives involve a heat source plus a large quantity of basically neutral...
... Why not combine the two? The beanstalk gets you into orbit and a lunar skyhook drops you off on the moon's surface. You ballast up with moon rocks to make...
... enough. D'oh. Didn't think of that, because I was visualizing a surface launch using the torch, a la Heinlein, not a shuttle that can use conventional...
<snip of good stuff> ... Why not combine the two? The beanstalk gets you into orbit and a lunar skyhook drops you off on the moon's surface. You ballast up...
... It's already happening. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/tides.html "However, the Earth's rotation is decelerating at a rate of about 0.002 seconds per...
Any ground based weapon firing a shot into space would be next to useless because the time involved in getting a projectile from the surface to orbit would...
Greetings: "It seems to me that SpaceShipOne had good start on the best approach. A conventional jet first stage and maybe a nuclear thermal upper." Hah. Go...
Space ship models from another list Scott ... From [deleted] To: cherryhlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:36 AM Subject: [cherryhlist]...
