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Post #275,545
by imric
12/12/06 7:46:50 AM
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New Apollo
Didn't have a shuttle, or the possibility of commercial companies contracting the work. Spaceship one didn't cost as much in real terms as Mercury - not by a long shot.

As for the problem with g - true they might be there - but the 'problem' might just be with free fall, not reduced gravity. Of course, we'll never know if we stay here.

And waiting 'till Red Giant phase? The Neanderthals didn't last that long, and they lasted longer than we have so far. I really don't think we have that long.

And - a few thousand years? The length of time the West has been 'civilised'? 10 times the length of time we've had an industrial civilisation? Again, I dunno. I don't think we have the time to dawdle.
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Post #275,564
by Andrew Grygus
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12/12/06 12:37:58 PM
12/12/06 8:32:29 PM
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New SpaceShipOne - 100 km at peak of a burnout . . .
. . trajectory (could have gone a little higher) with a velocity rapidly approaching 0 at the peak of the trajectory.

The Mercury capsule did 22 orbits between 160 and 282 km requiring a speed of about 8 km/second (17,892 miles/hour). A rather huge difference in scale there. When SpaceShipOne completes 22 orbits we can compare costs.
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     the UN said it so it must be true - (boxley) - (36) - Dec. 10, 2006, 11:28:53 AM EST
         Why - because it will take longer? - (imric) - (35) - Dec. 10, 2006, 09:48:19 PM EST
             Re: Why - because it will take longer? - (pwhysall) - (6) - Dec. 11, 2006, 01:23:40 AM EST
                 Won't help. Well. Won't help ENOUGH. - (imric) - (4) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:18:59 AM EST
                     Oh, I don't doubt it. - (pwhysall) - (3) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:30:30 AM EST
                         What, ever? - (imric) - (2) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:35:11 AM EST
                             Eggs & Sperm = Homo Sapiens... - (pwhysall) - (1) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:38:31 AM EST
                                 Oh, I agree... - (imric) - Dec. 11, 2006, 08:35:03 AM EST
                 keep the tridents parked - (boxley) - Dec. 11, 2006, 09:12:44 AM EST
             Getting off the rock won't help those of us still here. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Dec. 11, 2006, 01:47:20 AM EST
                 True... - (imric) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:21:08 AM EST
             We MUST get off this rock? - (Andrew Grygus) - (25) - Dec. 11, 2006, 01:51:21 AM EST
                 Umm, so? - (imric) - (24) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:32:34 AM EST
                     Pie-in-the-sky - (Andrew Grygus) - (23) - Dec. 11, 2006, 11:22:10 AM EST
                         Uh huh. - (imric) - (22) - Dec. 11, 2006, 12:09:00 PM EST
                             Speaking of which... - (admin) - Dec. 11, 2006, 12:35:09 PM EST
                             A viable, non-toxic backup plan would be nice. - (Andrew Grygus) - (17) - Dec. 11, 2006, 01:00:46 PM EST
                                 As mentioned before... - (imric) - (16) - Dec. 11, 2006, 01:47:49 PM EST
                                     Re: As mentioned before... - (Andrew Grygus) - (15) - Dec. 11, 2006, 02:17:01 PM EST
                                         Completely wrong. - (imric) - (14) - Dec. 11, 2006, 02:48:19 PM EST
                                             Submarine crews . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Dec. 11, 2006, 04:36:07 PM EST
                                                 Sure. Whatever. - (imric) - (6) - Dec. 11, 2006, 11:22:38 PM EST
                                                     In smaller groups . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Dec. 12, 2006, 03:12:29 AM EST
                                                         OK, wrong again. I am *shocked* - (imric) - (4) - Dec. 12, 2006, 07:38:23 AM EST
                                                             The death of humanity as a species is a given. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2006, 10:27:13 AM EST
                                                                 amen on your last sentence -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 12, 2006, 10:44:43 AM EST
                                                                 So - Let's sum up your points - (imric) - Dec. 12, 2006, 11:09:30 AM EST
                                                             "Mein Fuhrer, I Can Walk!" - (n3jja) - Dec. 12, 2006, 06:11:23 PM EST
                                             Techno Possibility is subordinate to species mindset, - (Ashton) - (5) - Dec. 11, 2006, 10:50:14 PM EST
                                                 *sigh* - (imric) - Dec. 11, 2006, 11:24:27 PM EST
                                                 s/species/society/g -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 12, 2006, 07:47:55 AM EST
                                                 Remember Biosphere 2? - (dmcarls) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2006, 02:38:51 PM EST
                                                     Re: Remember Biosphere 2? - (Ashton) - Dec. 14, 2006, 11:04:24 PM EST
                                                     Wuzzat the one with Pauly Shore? -NT - (drewk) - Dec. 15, 2006, 09:40:41 PM EST
                             Eventually, we do need to leave. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2006, 07:08:42 AM EST
                                 Apollo - (imric) - (1) - Dec. 12, 2006, 07:46:50 AM EST
                                     SpaceShipOne - 100 km at peak of a burnout . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Dec. 12, 2006, 08:32:29 PM EST

Ah-ha! And "so's your old man!"
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