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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jul 2009
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Thoughts on 1969
SteveB wrote:
"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
That, and the fact that we've been doing what Harry is suggesting for
YEARS! He's just had his head stuck so far up his own ass that he missed
it....
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