Re: successful hypersonic SCRAM test

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 04:57:32 MDT


On Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:45 PM Damien Broderick
d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> You lot heard about this?

Yeap. Read about it on spacedaily.com and cnn's web site.

> Dr Allan Paull's Aussie garage team with modest
> govt and Japanese funding went hypersonic yesterday (it looks like),
> beating the $300 megabuck NASA program. Nyah nyah.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/30/1027926886008.html
>
> Damien Broderick
> [of course I don't really care; wasn't anyone I know, just because it
> happened on this bit of dirt, why should I give a--]

I was happy to hear they succeeded this time.

As for NASA, it tends to overspend on everything -- typical of [big]
government programs.

Cheers!

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html



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