[ExI] one way ticket to mars

spike spike at rainier66.com
Tue Apr 23 19:56:43 UTC 2013


>... On Behalf Of spike
Subject: Re: [ExI] one way ticket to mars


>... On Behalf Of spike
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>>...My assumptions went up to Isp of about 1200 m/sec, much beyond which
your energy consumption goes nuts...spike

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>...Doh!  I meant 12000 m/sec of course...

Doh!  Europeans, you guys don't know how good you have it.  That kind of
embarrassing error above is an indirect result of using the sloppy Isp unit
of seconds, when you really mean pound-force seconds per pound mass, then
cancel two unmatching but similarly named units.  Cursed English system!

>...  I was in the barber chair ...a crazy-sexy Vietnamese girl...first
really good hot days of summer ... here she was in my face trimming my
eyebrows with those...

Doh!  Some days it is better to just step away from the keyboard, leave it
alone until one is feeling abnormal again.  What I meant of course is that
she was in my face with those; trimming my eyebrows with SCISSORS.  If she
really could trim a man's eyebrows with THOSE, she wouldn't need to bother
running a barbershop.  But this time I can't even blame it on English units,
because we were speaking Espaniol.  I blame it on this year's daring and
playful women's fashions, oh my, I love em!  The girls seem less shy,
showing off a bit.  It's the 70s again, cool!

>...Apologies to all for my order of magnitude goof.  I will try to be more
careful in the future.  spike
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That silly goof is good actually.  It's a wakeup call: I need to get my
space stuff out of the old software toolbox and get busy with it again.
Keith has been doing all these calculations and I have been sitting on my
butt cheering him on, rather than getting with the program myself.

spike




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