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- From: pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.100124.16342@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 10:01:24 GMT
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- bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (William E. White ) writes:
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- >Let's assume you're accelerating at 8000 meters/second, which is easily
- >within range of railguns. This takes, of course, 1 second to get up to
- >speed; in that second we travel 8000 meters (simply enough). Now this is
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- 8000 meters/second is NOT an acceleration. It is a speed. This is not a
- nitpick-- someone who does not understand the meaning of the terms
- "acceleration", "velocity", and "speed" is not qualified to talk about
- the feasablility of various launch techniques.
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