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- From: alizard@pil
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Message-ID: <gate.5kXmwB1w165w@pil.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:06:14 PST
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- Re: Re: Space, the final frontier
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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.
- > Date: 29 Dec 92 21:35:28 GMT
- > 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
- > 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
- Given that the main product of McDonnell-Douglas are military aircraft and
- rocket engines, these people have a lot to lose if their company was suddenly
- to experience competition from private enterprise large scale space launch
- systems not rooted in the culture of spectacular waste that comprises our
- miltary-industrial complex. Did McDonnell-Douglas sell the infamous $4500
- toilet seat? Don't know... but if it wasn't them, it was a rather similar
- competitor... though I think the $10 markup on a 10 cent diode is a lot
- funnier.
-
- If these alleged rocket scientists have NUMBERS that demostrate that scaling
- railguns up to the 1 metric ton range with output velocities in the 5
- mi/second range are impossible, if they can demonstrate that scaling laser
- technology up to the power ranges (10E9 joule) range for laser catapults, or
- they can prove that beamed power in the GWatt range is impossible, I'm
- prepared to listen. With respect if it make sense. If such proof is
- impossible, let's see demostrations that other technology required for
- space industrialization is physically impossible.
-
- As it stands, it sounds like you know a lot of traditional aerospace people
- who would like a change to continue to work in traditional aerospace
- environments at our expense. Which isn't going to happen, regardless of what
- happens with space industralization. Did you contact Aerojet-General on
- replacing the rocket engine as well? (main product- solid fuel rocket
- engines last I heard) Did you try to get an objective opinion on paganism from
- Pat Robetson as well?
-
- Sounds like you got told what the companies in the rocket business want the
- public to know. McDonnell Douglas has no vested interest in making the rocket
- obsolete. Actually, none of the aerospace companies do. Why don't you get some
- of your friends to post on this? If they have something substantive and not
- self-serving to say, I'd like to hear it.
-
- A.Lizard
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