STILL OFF TOPIC: Re: America needs therapy

[David Honig]

At 08:12 AM 10/2/01 -0700, Matt Beland wrote:
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>On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:43 am, David Honig wrote:
>> At 02:00 PM 10/2/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
>> >And if you can put up a bloody huge enough launcher on the moon, (use
>> >solar energy or nuclear - why not - it is one place in the system that
>> >we don't care about pollution) then you can send material back all the
>> >way to LEO by slingshot, and when it is captured by the facility at LEO,
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>> And Lloyds pays out when you miss the catch?
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>> (Then again, NASA played plutonium slingshot without coverage... )
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>Bah. Read a physics text sometime. Miss the catch and the payload continues 
>on in it's original path, which would be at a tangent to the intended orbit 
>and therefore to the surface.

Why don't you consider worst case scenarios, and aerobraking.

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>As for NASA playing "plutonium slingshot", they did indeed - with a huge 
>margin for error, and a design so pessimistic that even if the damned thing 
>had slammed head-on into the planet, there would almost certainly have been 
>zero contamination. If the canister HAD broken, the contamination would have 
>been roughly on the scale of Three Mile Island, which killed 0 people and
did 
>0 environmental damage.

Why don't you consider worst case scenarios, and aerobraking.

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>If you and the other idiots want to object to the things NASA and others do, 
>fine. Be my guest. But do your homework FIRST.

Why don't you consider worst case scenarios, and aerobraking.