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Re: Iran to nuke Jupiter?

2010-03-19T08:40:45Z

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:02:27 -0800, Pat Flannery <flan...@daktel.com>
wrote:
You are correct, sir! A male ballet dancer is a "ballerino" or
"danseur"
(How do I know? I have the "gift" of being able to remember some
useless piece of cruft that I read in a magazine 15 years ago while
waiting for a flight)

Re: Multinational Common Capsule

2010-03-19T08:28:16Z

There is no 'world economy' in the sense you're trying to use the
phrase.
So you impose the limitations of current boosters on future boosters.
Just as there are advantages to multiple capsules per booster. So
what?
How many fewer would come out in the situation you're describing?
It never has. 'Booster failure' has only ever meant one country was

Re: Secret Military Space Plane Primed For Test Launch

2010-03-19T09:41:52Z

There's another way of figuring this out; rather than use total energy
released, figure out what the damage would be like.
And that can be done over her:
[link]
Since this is supposed to be some sort of a "Rods From God" attack using
something weighing around 1,000 pounds going at 24,500 fps, let's drop a

Re: Iran to nuke Jupiter?

2010-03-19T08:02:27Z

I believe the correct term for a male ballet dancer isn't "ballerina". :-D
You had better watch it, or you will find him waiting for you in the
shower, and he will be shockingly naked. Then the tickle fight will begin.
He's also a former soldier in the Israeli Army, and that summons up some
odd visions of the Israeli Army Ballet Corps performing "Dead Sea",

Re: Iran to nuke Jupiter?

2010-03-19T06:54:36Z

There's one thing I don't get here.
Iran says it needs reactors because it lacks the ability to generate
sufficient electricity for its own needs.
Although he country is swimming in oil, it doesn't have the capability
to refine that oil into petroleum products with which it could run
powerplants.

Re: Iran to nuke Jupiter?

2010-03-19T03:31:46Z

Rahm Emanuel is a former ballerina, so our government already has plenty
of dancers for its news conferences.

Re: Multinational Common Capsule

2010-03-19T03:29:19Z

It won't.

Re: 39-day trip to Mars

2010-03-19T02:24:51Z

[link]
I like the verse below - it says a lot, and how intense personal
relationships trump the larger things that are happening in the world-
i was thrown before the court of canes
tossed my soul to the furnace flames
where all my heros had been slain, exiled, or put in prison

Re: Avoiding Politics ....Florida Unemployment hits Record....11.9%

2010-03-19T02:11:34Z

Even with an overall conservative view, I can see linking Big Science
- including Big Space - to our military needs, or the equivalent
thereof. And therefore allocating funding at Apollo-era levels to NASA
and an equivalent or even greater amount to other Big Science: energy
(fusion, etc.), general basic research, such as particle colliders,

Re: Secret Military Space Plane Primed For Test Launch

2010-03-19T02:09:47Z

I was hoping for a more exciting explanation. Anyway, everyone is entitled
to slip once in a while. I continue to like your posts.
Alain Fournier

Re: Our 0.1<1% hollow moon, and near infinite vacuum of Selene L1 / Brad Guth

2010-03-19T02:03:31Z

Been there, done that many times over.
What topic other than "Our 0.1<1% hollow moon" are you going on about?
What "no stars in the sky" dilemma? (Venus isn't a star)
Ever heard of dynamic range?
thus:
Are you per chance related to that other Usenet contributor "Warhol"?
~ BG

Re: NASA Expert Quits, joins Space Solar Power Bandwagon

2010-03-19T01:49:45Z

His bio says only that "He has most recently left NASA and is taking
on greater challenges as Sr. VP of the Space Energy Group."

Re: NASA Expert Quits, joins Space Solar Power Bandwagon

2010-03-19T01:40:04Z

NASA would only need to help the technology along enough
to demonstrate the capability. The market would then have to
run with it. The original plan back in '92 was to build four satellites
first a 100kw, then 1mw, 10mw, 1gw until the technology is
proven. Then the market would take over.
[link]

Re: Our 0.1<1% hollow moon, and near infinite vacuum of Selene L1 / Brad Guth

2010-03-19T01:28:26Z

look at the surface of rock that's been sitting around.
thus:
ask doctor David Deutsch,
whether or not he is in this (here) universe;
you'll probably draw a blank. I mean,
what would you expect from a Russellian "paradox,"
of redefining a word, Universe?
's what I call,
messing with Schroedinger's pussy!

Re: Our 0.1<1% hollow moon, and near infinite vacuum of Selene L1 / Brad Guth

2010-03-19T01:10:22Z

Now we're being informed by our NASA that 40 of those North polar
craters upon of our moon have hidden 600 million cubic meters worth of
raw surface ice that's immune to the laws of physics, as frozen h2o
coexisting at an extreme vacuum of 3e-15 bar none the less, and yet
there's never any hint of h2o vapors, as for suggesting any thin