rick sobie

Deficit this deficit that who gives a good Goddamn.

It is already so high that someone at some time is going
to have to f****ve the debt.

You know that the Russians are planning the trip.
Are you going to make them go it alone?

The people at NASA say they can get it done.

You are a 'get it done' kinda guy as well.

Let's go for the gusto. Nuclear powered as planned.

(Just try to fit in the ark theme some how.)


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[...this is Major Tom to ground control...]

David Bowie (Space Oddity)

titan point

I hear the Martians are building weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair
says they could launch them in 45 minutes.

And the people of Mars are suffering under a brutal dictatorship that your
dad once supported...

Go George go!

the ghost in the machine

In sci.physics, Rick Sobie
<rsobie@spamblock_telus.net>


<3F4FEE60.D9793F8E@spamblock_telus.net>:


Savings bonds holders, for one.

Nuclear power is routinely used in deep space missions
to the outer planets -- though not in the way you might
think. Look up "Cassini mission" for details -- and the
controversy generated as the flight plan, in order to save
fuel, involved several flybys, including one that put the
craft very near the Earth, stealing some of its momentum
and worrying people that, had the NASA engineers goofed
the same way they goofed with the Mars Climate Orbiter,
it might have crashed into the Earth, spewing extremely
toxic plutonium all over the place.

The canisters are thick enough to survive reentry, they
assure us. Let's hope we don't find out the hard way.
In any event, it's well on its way to Saturn, as intended.

[1] Assume ice block in near-Earth orbit.

[2] Deorbit said block.

[3] Watch block drop on head as high pressure steam.

Next question? If you need them, I have detailed
calculations on why one gets steam rather than klonked on
the head by a deorbiting iceball. (It's an artifact of
an argument debunking Ye Arke.)

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