[extropy-chat] Eugen's balcony

[Emlyn O'regan]

Self cooking would be interesting. You need to put the chocolate coating on
somehow, though.

How about a pre-cooked eclair (maybe a little doey, it will get *hot*), with
a really thick chocolate coating (3 or four meters?) which acts as an
ablative re-entry shield. By the time it gets to Eugen's balcony, the shell
should be down to sub-centimeter.

I agree that fruitcake it dangerous; do the raisins burn up, or are they
dense enough to become incredibly energetic kinetic weapons?

Emlyn

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P.S. and it would really be interesting if once the X-prize(s) were
awarded and pseudo-space travel became reasonable and someone
figured out when Eugen's birthday was if Extropes collectively
determined to rain down cake on Eugen's location on such a
date.  I almost cannot imagine Eugen holding up a glass of
champagne recognizing the cake streaking across the sky
being forced to raise the cry of "incoming".



What would be the terminal velocity of a cake dropped from a low earth
orbit?
How would it differ depending on the material, say Sponge or Fruitcake?

Personally I think there are far too many variables to consider when
calculating the decent of a dumb cake. I therefore forward the notion that
any orbital cake deployment be of the Eugene Seeking Self guiding variety.
Perhaps a large chocolate eclair would be ideal due to the superior
aerodynamics. If deployed in a raw cakemix configuration, it should be
nicely cooked by the time of impact.

Alex