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- From: boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.130659.20182@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:06:59 GMT
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- Bill White - I'm sorry, but the crude news reader I can use from home
- makes hash out of my attempts to quote messages.
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- Your reply to my posting on the length of a railgun reads like you
- started to reply before you got to the second example. Of COURSE
- you wouldn't want to accelerate at 1 g! That's why there were
- two examples.
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- You suggested accelerating the mass within 1 second, an acceleration
- of 8,000 meters / second ** 2. Let's see - that's only 816 g's.
- Your packaging and any payload would have to be built to take that
- kind of stress - every kilogram of mass becomes 816 kilograms of
- force trying to rip itself to pieces. About the only thing you'd
- want to ship that way would be very high-value items where the
- value outweighs the cost of engineering them to take that kind
- of acceleration and bulk materials that wouldn't notice. I sure
- wouldn't want to try to design a tank to hold liquid under those
- conditions. Solid raw materials could be shipped that way, but
- I thought the whole point was to get machinery and, possibly,
- people up there to OBTAIN the raw materials?
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- - - Steve
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