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- From: pmw2c@csissun12.ee.Virginia.EDU (Paul Michael Wayner)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.041409.915@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 04:14:09 GMT
- References: <gate.5kXmwB1w165w@pil.UUCP> <1993Jan2.072222.6330@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <2B46509C.11023@news.service.uci.edu>
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- In article <2B46509C.11023@news.service.uci.edu>,
- cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan2.072222.6330@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- |> >alizard@pil writes:
- |> >:
- |> >: 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,
- |> >
- |> >There would be little problem, in space. It cannot be done here on
- Earth,
- |> >due to atmospheric drag.
- |>
- |> Uh -- how do you keep the launching station from soaking up momentum
- by
- |> shooting off in the opposite direction? You'd have to build a
- PRETTY
- |> BIG FUCKING STATION.
- |>
- |> Blessings,
- |> Janis
-
- Well, if you are launching from an asteroid or the moon, you
- automatically
- have a fucking big station. If you are launching from a man-made
- station,
- you could simply have two guns and fire them in opposite directions to
- cancel
- out the effect.
-
- Another possible way of way of shooting objects into space is to use a
- gas-gun.
- It's a piece of SDI technology that is just recently being declassified.
- In a
- gas-gun a large chamber is filled with explosive gases and ingnited.
- The
- expanding gas is funneled into a constricting tube which increases the
- pressure
- of the explosion. At the end of the tube you have the payload which is
- shot
- into space by the expanding gas. This technique holds a lot of
- promise.
-
- Paul Wayner
-