Author Topic: For the space geeks amongst us.  (Read 1786 times)

RoadKingLarry

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Re: For the space geeks amongst us.
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2020, 06:19:34 PM »
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

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Re: For the space geeks amongst us.
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2020, 08:34:43 PM »
One of the founding members of Oregon Rocketry had a vernier motor from an Atlas rocket that he intended to build a rocket around.  Don't know much about his project, but the motor was really cool.  He brought it out to a launch on a trailer one afternoon.

Woo!  LR-101, kerolox.  That'll get him places, but at 4.4kN he will need quite a bit more to make orbit.

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Re: For the space geeks amongst us.
« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2020, 01:15:50 PM »
Turns out the guy is a NAR level 2 flyer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLr27xOCoK0
If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.

Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale.  Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.

My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.

Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

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Re: For the space geeks amongst us.
« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2020, 10:55:31 PM »