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Successful First Launch of Aerospike Engine
ScottKin writes "CSULB announced that on September 21st they achieved a milestone in aerospace engineering when they successfully launched their 'Prospector 2' rocket powered by an 'Aerospike' engine. What makes this remarkable is that even NASA had trouble with testing their incarnation of an Aerospike engine - but the Linear Aerospike Engine is quite a different beast. More info on this definitely-newsworthy even can be found at the California Space Authority website."
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It may be -1, offtopic here. But if you get it now, then you don't have to wait when it gets on the front page!
but shouldn't money be spent on the space elevator?
Am I wrong? Is there a need for both the space elevator and cheap and efficient rockets?
on several dimensions (more than 3). formerly posted as: 'is that a model rocket cam in your pocket? ....'
it's also something that you can participate in, right away, not having to wait decades for the 'consumer model' to be released.
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If the Constitution of the NewSates is passed, I suppose all the U.S. * federal franchises will dissolve. What are the chances all the corps with mis-leading names like "California Space Authority" say they are the ones that control space and if you don't pay their tax they'll screw with the tide tables?
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Why don't I be a corporator to a corp called "Space Authority of Earth" ? Because then some asshole will come around and make a corporation called "Trans Universe Travel Authority" ! And then another assh^H^H^H^H my deer Lord and Savior will return and kick the shit out of the Romish Pontiff for being the custodians of doctrine that manifest the following quotes I recently read on slashdot from "zealotasd"
"For the Roman pontiff (pope), by reason of his office as VICAR OF CHRIST, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal POWER over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise UNHINDERED."
--CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1994, P. 254 #882
"[W]e hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."
"...We declare, state and define that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of all human beings that they submit to the Roman Pontiff [pope]."
--POPE BONIFACE VIII, BULL UNUN SANCTUM, 1302
"No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!"
--Pope Leo X, 1516