Coincidentally, there's a report of 'impossible' temperatures in Moere og Romsdal (Norway) shortly after the solar eruption. Certainly hot in November for a place near the arctic circle. That record came after a night whose low was 16.4 C.
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I guess normal rockets would be used to accelerate (that is, at altitudes below geostationary altitude; above they would need to decelerate). I think the idea is that you only need to carry fuel for that, which is little compared to what's needed for the ascent. In today's rockets most of the energy goes into lifting the fuel itself off the ground.
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Coincidentally, there's a report of 'impossible' temperatures in Moere og Romsdal (Norway) shortly after the solar eruption. Certainly hot in November for a place near the arctic circle. That record came after a night whose low was 16.4 C.
Yesterday SpamAssassin began to discard most of my mail. I understand why now; because of Verisign any ip address is now flagged as an open relay in unavailable DNS blacklists:
SPAM: RCVD_IN_ORBS (2.2 points) RBL: Received via a relay in orbs.dorkslayers.com
SPAM: [RBL check: found 4.184.36.158.orbs.dorkslayers.com., type: 64.94.110.11]
I guess normal rockets would be used to accelerate (that is, at altitudes below geostationary altitude; above they would need to decelerate). I think the idea is that you only need to carry fuel for that, which is little compared to what's needed for the ascent. In today's rockets most of the energy goes into lifting the fuel itself off the ground.