From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2000 - 16:03:06 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> paul@i2.to wrote:
>
> > Completely unnecessary. With the right booster, the shuttle without *any*
> > modifications could easily reach lunar orbit. ...
>
> Paul, is this *really* you who wrote this, or an impostor? Hand over
> the ransom note.... {8^D
>
> If you take the shuttle in its current form, make the entire payload
> into more fuel and tanks, you *still* would be unable to get the
> delta vee necessary to take it to the moon. Nor would you
> want to.
>
> When you say "the right booster" are you suggesting some profoundly
> huge liquids, strapped to the external tank? spike
Fill the cargo hold with a NERVA system. WHOOOOEEEEE, and AWAAAYYYYY we
go.
Of course, using nanofuels on the SRB system would also help out somme
as well.
-- TANSTAAFL Mike Lorrey "In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." --- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) "A person who wants a society that is both safe and free, wants what never has been, and what never will be." --- Thomas Jefferson "It's a Republic, if you can keep it..." --- Benjamin Franklin
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