CA-4's Tom McClintock is also against it. As much as I miss being a constituent of the Texas-14th congressional district and having Dr. Ron Paul be my representative, I'm glad to know that Mr. McClintock actually has some integrity.
The rest are guilty of High Treason against the Constitution in my opinion. They should be arrested, tried, and when found convicted publicly executed for the world to see what happens when you attack the Constitution of the United States like this. We kill "terrorists" who do less against us. Terrorists might kill a few of us, knock down some buildings, but they don't DESTROY OUR CONSTITUTION. That has to be done by traitors HERE, not there.
Trade school is always a better option than going to college straight out of high school.
You want to go to college anyway? Do it in ten years after you've managed to get a good trade and lived in the real world. That way you'll actually get something out of it and will have the cash to pay your own way through college.
The NAP was only 2.5 MW. It heats air and provides a small amount of electricity for the ship's systems. It doesn't take hundreds or even dozens of MW to do that.
Nuclear fuel isn't expended during the timeframe significant for operation of the spacecraft, and thus isn't a factor. As for the heat exchanger, it's not that hard to do and there's no need for several-megawatt class or larger reactor just to heat air and reaction mass. They had everything they needed to build aircraft with NTR and NAP sixty years ago but scrapped the project because ICBMs were cheaper and more effective than developing a nuclear bomber.
Including a turbojet would be foolish because it would serve only to vastly increase the complexity of the vehicle for little gain when a mass driver could do the job just as well and be useful for other launch vehicles as well.
I've studied this plenty. You're just assuming all sorts of stupid shit just to try to throw a wrench into the works.
With a nuclear reactor there is no fuel required for the scramjet, and once the ship is off the mass driver it can climb into the upper atmosphere at its leisure.
It's a space plane, not a rocket. It doesn't need a significant inclination in the mass driver to head towards the upper atmosphere. It can adjust its flight path on its own.
Fifty miles or more east/southeast, horizontally with a slight upward curve towards the end.
The mass driver is just there to get the thing up to scramjet speed, not throw the thing into orbit. The scramjet will take the craft up to high hypersonic speeds and through the atmosphere, and then rocket engines would give the final push once the atmosphere gets too thin.
Hell, if you use a nuclear reactor on the thing you don't even need to carry fuel for the scramjet engine or oxidizer for the rocket because you can just heat the air/reaction mass directly.
Rather than worrying about breaking physics to use it for manned launches, just make the mass driver fifty miles or more. That way the acceleration can be more gradual. You only have to get it up to about mach 5 for the scramjet to work, or even less if you make it a scramjet capable of operating as a ramjet as well..
Either way, I wouldn't call the mass driver a stage in itself. There's no reason why you'd need a disposable sled if you could just build the mass driver and orbiter like a maglev track train and leave the end of the track open.
Tacoma, Washington has municipal broadband available as part of its public utilities, as well as phone and cable. Comcast and the other telcoms are still around and available if you want them.
Frankly, I'd trust the city more than the telcoms. At least the city officials are somewhat accountable to the people.
I blame the government for not having the balls or integrity to use tariffs instead of an income tax like they did back when we weren't spending ourselves so deep into debt that we're going to need bathyscaphes just to drive to work.
If tariffs make the cost of importing goods from countries with no protections for their workers like our domestic factories are required to have higher than the money saved by getting around those protections in the first place, the jobs will return and so will the wages.
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You ought to get yourself a Wii Motion Plus Wiimote. They seem to have improved the motion sensing significantly.
The new Zelda game will have Link's sword actually follow your motions with the Wiimote instead of just responding to various wiggles.
Given that the TV and the controller will be acting as a pair of screens, clearly they should call it the Wii S.
Not enough to offset the huge amount of livable wages that bringing those jobs back to North America would create.
How many of those things would be made in the US or Mexico again if China ceased to exist?
They re-use project names all the time.
Just make this one "Project Prometheus 2: Electric Boogaloo"
How about they cut spending instead?
How about Prometheus? It seems fairly fitting for a project to enable the development and widespread use of commercially viable fusion reactors.
Sounds to me like someone on that farm should have bought a good hunting rifle or two.
It really is cute when Airmen think that they're actually in the military, isn't it?
Plus the train can maintain its top speed much longer on a long, straight track that goes through the mountain rather than around or over it.
Looks like Anonymous is planning on building an air force.
Once this blade hits eighty eight miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit!
CA-4's Tom McClintock is also against it. As much as I miss being a constituent of the Texas-14th congressional district and having Dr. Ron Paul be my representative, I'm glad to know that Mr. McClintock actually has some integrity.
Second.
Trade school is always a better option than going to college straight out of high school.
You want to go to college anyway? Do it in ten years after you've managed to get a good trade and lived in the real world. That way you'll actually get something out of it and will have the cash to pay your own way through college.
The NAP was only 2.5 MW. It heats air and provides a small amount of electricity for the ship's systems. It doesn't take hundreds or even dozens of MW to do that.
Nuclear fuel isn't expended during the timeframe significant for operation of the spacecraft, and thus isn't a factor. As for the heat exchanger, it's not that hard to do and there's no need for several-megawatt class or larger reactor just to heat air and reaction mass. They had everything they needed to build aircraft with NTR and NAP sixty years ago but scrapped the project because ICBMs were cheaper and more effective than developing a nuclear bomber.
Including a turbojet would be foolish because it would serve only to vastly increase the complexity of the vehicle for little gain when a mass driver could do the job just as well and be useful for other launch vehicles as well.
I've studied this plenty. You're just assuming all sorts of stupid shit just to try to throw a wrench into the works.
With a nuclear reactor there is no fuel required for the scramjet, and once the ship is off the mass driver it can climb into the upper atmosphere at its leisure.
Stop talking about shit you don't understand.
It's a space plane, not a rocket. It doesn't need a significant inclination in the mass driver to head towards the upper atmosphere. It can adjust its flight path on its own.
Fifty miles or more east/southeast, horizontally with a slight upward curve towards the end.
The mass driver is just there to get the thing up to scramjet speed, not throw the thing into orbit. The scramjet will take the craft up to high hypersonic speeds and through the atmosphere, and then rocket engines would give the final push once the atmosphere gets too thin.
Hell, if you use a nuclear reactor on the thing you don't even need to carry fuel for the scramjet engine or oxidizer for the rocket because you can just heat the air/reaction mass directly.
Rather than worrying about breaking physics to use it for manned launches, just make the mass driver fifty miles or more. That way the acceleration can be more gradual. You only have to get it up to about mach 5 for the scramjet to work, or even less if you make it a scramjet capable of operating as a ramjet as well..
Either way, I wouldn't call the mass driver a stage in itself. There's no reason why you'd need a disposable sled if you could just build the mass driver and orbiter like a maglev track train and leave the end of the track open.
We'd be better off building a mass driver to launch a scramjet powered SSTO with small rocket engines for the last mile.
Yes.
Tacoma, Washington has municipal broadband available as part of its public utilities, as well as phone and cable. Comcast and the other telcoms are still around and available if you want them.
Frankly, I'd trust the city more than the telcoms. At least the city officials are somewhat accountable to the people.
I blame the government for not having the balls or integrity to use tariffs instead of an income tax like they did back when we weren't spending ourselves so deep into debt that we're going to need bathyscaphes just to drive to work.
If tariffs make the cost of importing goods from countries with no protections for their workers like our domestic factories are required to have higher than the money saved by getting around those protections in the first place, the jobs will return and so will the wages.