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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Mar 2009
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Thoughts on 1969
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"H K" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:50:14 -0700, "Calif Bill"
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Build a shuttle, that is carried to 50k feet by a modified airplane
platform, and then launch from there. You will already have 500 mile
per hour speed, and be above 60% of the admosphere. Sure you have the
wings, but make the body a lifting body and most of the wing
disappears. Use rocket for the really large stuff, but the modified
airplane / shuttle would suffice for lots of the lift jobs and would
require much less fuel. Not the 90% fuel as you already have some
speed so less inertia and lots less air resistance to overcome
They already did that. It was the X15
It would be a better investment to put a few spaceward-aimed broadcast
beacons in orbit, and hope that a friendly alien civilization hears their
signals and stops by with technology a few thousand years more advanced
than ours they are willing to share.
We have been broadcasting into space for a lot of years. Ever since
Marconi.
IIRC, Nikolai Tesla was declared the inventor of the wireless in about 1947,
after study the government. Not Marconi.
Steve
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