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- From: ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Summary: Harsh realities, new questions.
- Message-ID: <1339@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:35:28 GMT
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- Organization: Kaos Laboratories
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- In article <1992Dec29.164215.19718@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan) writes...
- >
- >Oh, why not join this happy mutual grilling?
-
- (many good questions removed, see bottom of post)
-
- >
- > - - Steve
- >
- >--
- >Don't miss the 49th New England Folk Festival,
- >April 23-25, 1993 in Natick, Massachusetts!
-
-
-
- Over the hollidays I had the oportunity to speak with a person who
- is working on space station Freedom for LMSC, subcontracted to
- McDonald-Douglas. I discussed all the various space tech plans here with him
- (brought a lot of print-outs so I wouldn't mis-quote anyone) and then he
- refered me to some folks at McDonal-Douglas. After talking with several
- space engineers and physiscists there, I arranged one last interview with
- someone at Rockwell International who specializes in railgun tech.
-
- Needless to say, I learned a lot.
-
- The ideas of mining asteroids, industry in space and railguns
- as a cheap way to get there nearly got me laughed out of every office I
- visited. I'm not going to waste my time going into deatails here, but the
- theories espoused here are full of holes and are basic flights of fancy.
- The one of the engineers from McD-D said "Tell those fools to go back to
- reading analog". I don't know what this means but he assured me everyone
- who espoused these ideas would.
-
- In short, I consider anyone with a degree in astro-physics who
- is working in these fields to be pretty damned knowledgeable and I
- will take their word over any of the thoeries posted on the net any day.
- I thought I had better post this so that everyone who has taken this
- seriously would know that the theories in question are suspect at best
- if not plain out impossible fantasies. I won't be posting any more about
- these ideas consequently. It's pretty depressing to learn that none of these
- grand plans are really workable. I feel like I just dug up the pot of shit at
- the end of the rain-bow.
-
- The real education here is in human nature and who to believe
- and not believe. I suspected. Now I know.
-
- ----
-
- As for transmitting energy to the earth in the form of
- "harmless" microwaves, I haven't looked into that, but I would suspect
- that if the microwave is weak enough not to harm the environment, it
- would not be able to carry a lot of energy. Does anyone *really* know about
- this? I'm with Steve on this one, let's ask the tough questions and
- see if it works.
-
-
- - Ashley
-