Robert Clark wrote:
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> Reminds me of what happened on Galileo's closest approach to Europa...
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> Bob Clark
Hey Bob, wanna see some Dark Matter?
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/sunshine.jpg
More to the point, consider a position paper that made it up to the
NASA Administrator's desk,
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/214672main_KPainting-GenY_rev11.pdf
Compare and contrast with the 02 February 1987 "Aviation Week & Space
Technology" editorial strongly suggesting "NASA should not be allowed
to operate in a vacuum." I shit thee not.
NASA triumphs: Space Scuttle (9X [more expensive]/[gram boosted] in
constant dollars than the use once and toss Saturn V). Columbia
hypocomputer (second building with Itanium-2s) to ISS FUBAR ([pigs in
space). The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer imbrolgio (no room at the
FUBAR),
http://ams.cern.ch/AMS/Description/overview.html
The cherry atop the whip cream is Return to the Moon! A working
answer obtained ahead of schedule, under budget, and done with slide
rules multiply flew in the 1960s. 21st century NASA can't get it up
with CAD, superhypercomputers, unlimited budget, and 12 years of lead
time.
TOP SECRET/Lotus Eater rumors indicate an engineering diversity hire
hit Apollo 1.5X in floating point and NASA has been struggling with
1.49999 ever since. All screws, nuts, and bolts must be
custom-manufactured. All wire gages must be custom-pulled. Then a
grievous misspelling of Avoirdupois had all forces calculated in Troy
oz.
NASA's only hope is "Mythbusters" episode 64. It's looking pretty
good if NASA can scale it up by an integer factor and obtain 12-foot
diameter 150-foot long Mil-Spec solid fuel cores,
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/42/5/863.pdf
Oh for the days of the Nazi-American Space Alliance.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2
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