From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 20:28:28 MST
You wanna play in space, you gotta buy a ticket.
You can't afford the ticket, you can't play.
jm
On 2 Feb 2001, at 8:20, Spike Jones wrote:
> John Marlow wrote:
>
> > You know I can't tell if you're serious?
> > I really can't. Not at all.
>
> Three things, John:
>
> 1. Do
> 2. The
> 3. Math
>
> Do the math! There are plenty of books out there, or just
> look around on the web. The actual equations are not that
> complicated. It will take a Titan III/ Centaur class lancher
> for each ~1000 kg that ends up soft landed on Mars. That
> works out to on the order of 100 bucks per *gram*.
>
> What am I missing? Please point out to me my order of
> magnitude error, and I will be the happiest rocket scientist
> in Taxifornia. {8-] spike
>
>
John Marlow
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