That's just the problem - it isn't. There is nothing significant from SS1/SS2 that can be evolved into an orbital craft.
You're looking at the project from the wrong perspective. SS1 was never designed for anything but sub orbital joyriding, hybrid motors dont have anywhere near the Isp to reach orbit.
You should instead consider White Knight to be a 'test platform' for a much, much larger dual tailplaned carrier aircraft, this makes the whole project look a lot more interesting. To me, it sounds like a real neat way to marginally increase your launch vehicle's efficiency, and at the same time cut your range fees and third party liability to practically nil.
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The ISS is in the wrong inclination. It's too difficult to get any mass to if you're not launching from kazakhstan.
That, and it's boondoggled to the shuttle.
And now that the X-Prize MIGHT result in commercial orbitals, how much harder is it to go the moon once you are up there?
Not much harder. Once you're outside of the atmosphere you dont need to worry about using massively high thrust chemical rockets to get you up quickly, or dumping ludicrous amounts of energy on reentry.
You could pretty much just strap a low weight inflatible habitat like the ones Rob Bigelow is building to an apollo era LEM and a cheap pressure fed rocket.
While I'm not going to say that the use of the atomic bomb was immoral
It was immoral. They should have been demonstrated on a landmark like Mount Fuji or on a military base, not in the middle of a city against civilians.
At the height of the cold war the Soviets tested 'The Czar', with a TNT equivalent of 10 times everything used in WWII, Hiroshima and Nagasaki included.
They were predicting 100MT at full yield. Half of that was to come from fission, which would have released more fallout than every atmospheric test performed in the 1950's combined.
Well, the USSR's Tsar Bomba has the biggest yield of all bombs. At 27 tons though, it was damn hard to deliver. Anything large enough to carry it would be easily shot down well before it made the target.
The deadliest is probably the Trident II. It has eight compact half megaton warheads and decent range.
It's no wonder CN changes Anime. That description sounds godawful. I was mildly curious about what this show was until I heard it was the apocolypse told through robot-piloting teenagers. I've watched my fair share of cartoon's as an adult, but calling that plot "entertainment" would be a stretch.
Yes, they spend half a million on licensing and translating the show, and then some accountant tells them that they need to cut costs, and cant splurge a few hundred quid on hiring a decent copywriter to sell it.
Nuclear propulsion is ready as soon as society says it is acceptable. Project Orion in the 1960's developed it, and was cancelled. There exist designs (indeed; Pratt and Whitney is ready to make a tri-mode nuclear engine called the Triton with Isp ranging from 300-900).
I prefer the uranium tetra-bromide salt water method myself, although there is absolutely ZERO chance that anyone will allow it to be used for LEO boost stage. For a start, it's probably a violation of the 1968 test ban treaty.
You pump a roughly 90%+ enriched uranium fuel mix from nice neutron absorbing boron-carbonate capilliaries into a detonation chamber, and allow it to go critical. Basically a liquified fission bomb with an Isp of about 10000s.
And if you know the pain in the A## ( literally ) that is a trans-pacific flight , then you understand why they are doing this.
You dont know PITA until you've flown from Melbourne to LAX.
Consider a better, safer, cheaper and much faster way to get from NYC to Tokoyo with near-future tech: A maglev train via an underground tunnel, in vacuum for frictionless acceleration to ludicrious-speed at the midway point before decel.
It doesnt have to be underground, you could bridge the Bering, Mamiya and La Perouse Strait's.
The government will use bloggers' desire to be taken seriously as real journalists as an excuse to apply the same kind of censorship the FCC effectively has doled out for some time to the traditional media.
No they wont, blogs are too useful for astroturfing.
Consider a city. Looking down from a satellite, choose a random car in the city, and try to predict its movements. Not very easy. But predict the movements of the cars in the city as a whole, as people arrive from suburbs in the morning and return to them at night? Much easier.
Consider the state of a city recorded 50 years ago. Using that dataset, try to predict the future movements of cars in the city using your fancy algoritm over the next 5 decades.
Now, compare the results you achieved through the algorithm with last years traffic. Did the results match?
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That's just the problem - it isn't. There is nothing significant from SS1/SS2 that can be evolved into an orbital craft.
You're looking at the project from the wrong perspective. SS1 was never designed for anything but sub orbital joyriding, hybrid motors dont have anywhere near the Isp to reach orbit.
You should instead consider White Knight to be a 'test platform' for a much, much larger dual tailplaned carrier aircraft, this makes the whole project look a lot more interesting. To me, it sounds like a real neat way to marginally increase your launch vehicle's efficiency, and at the same time cut your range fees and third party liability to practically nil.
The ISS is in the wrong inclination. It's too difficult to get any mass to if you're not launching from kazakhstan. That, and it's boondoggled to the shuttle.
Mod parent down. Astroturf.
It is a measure of energy. Energy per photon.
The native goatse tribes of Christmas Island would disagree with you Kadin.
And now that the X-Prize MIGHT result in commercial orbitals, how much harder is it to go the moon once you are up there?
Not much harder. Once you're outside of the atmosphere you dont need to worry about using massively high thrust chemical rockets to get you up quickly, or dumping ludicrous amounts of energy on reentry.
You could pretty much just strap a low weight inflatible habitat like the ones Rob Bigelow is building to an apollo era LEM and a cheap pressure fed rocket.
While I'm not going to say that the use of the atomic bomb was immoral It was immoral. They should have been demonstrated on a landmark like Mount Fuji or on a military base, not in the middle of a city against civilians.
At the height of the cold war the Soviets tested 'The Czar', with a TNT equivalent of 10 times everything used in WWII, Hiroshima and Nagasaki included.
They were predicting 100MT at full yield. Half of that was to come from fission, which would have released more fallout than every atmospheric test performed in the 1950's combined.
Dont forget New Zealand. They're the most oppressive of the lot.
Well, the USSR's Tsar Bomba has the biggest yield of all bombs. At 27 tons though, it was damn hard to deliver. Anything large enough to carry it would be easily shot down well before it made the target. The deadliest is probably the Trident II. It has eight compact half megaton warheads and decent range.
What he does with his tape and waterfowl is his business.
Not if you're a government contractor you dont. If the thing didnt break, NASA would never order a new one.
It's no wonder CN changes Anime. That description sounds godawful. I was mildly curious about what this show was until I heard it was the apocolypse told through robot-piloting teenagers. I've watched my fair share of cartoon's as an adult, but calling that plot "entertainment" would be a stretch. Yes, they spend half a million on licensing and translating the show, and then some accountant tells them that they need to cut costs, and cant splurge a few hundred quid on hiring a decent copywriter to sell it.
Nuclear propulsion is ready as soon as society says it is acceptable. Project Orion in the 1960's developed it, and was cancelled. There exist designs (indeed; Pratt and Whitney is ready to make a tri-mode nuclear engine called the Triton with Isp ranging from 300-900).
I prefer the uranium tetra-bromide salt water method myself, although there is absolutely ZERO chance that anyone will allow it to be used for LEO boost stage. For a start, it's probably a violation of the 1968 test ban treaty.
You pump a roughly 90%+ enriched uranium fuel mix from nice neutron absorbing boron-carbonate capilliaries into a detonation chamber, and allow it to go critical. Basically a liquified fission bomb with an Isp of about 10000s.
And if you know the pain in the A## ( literally ) that is a trans-pacific flight , then you understand why they are doing this. You dont know PITA until you've flown from Melbourne to LAX.
Consider a better, safer, cheaper and much faster way to get from NYC to Tokoyo with near-future tech: A maglev train via an underground tunnel, in vacuum for frictionless acceleration to ludicrious-speed at the midway point before decel. It doesnt have to be underground, you could bridge the Bering, Mamiya and La Perouse Strait's.
until it's banned.
Only in the US. If they want to live in the dark ages, the rest of the world is happy to let them.
Remember, we (rest of world) will at that stage have a cheap, reliable nuke delivery system. Not wise to be making threats.
The government will use bloggers' desire to be taken seriously as real journalists as an excuse to apply the same kind of censorship the FCC effectively has doled out for some time to the traditional media.
No they wont, blogs are too useful for astroturfing.
Consider a city. Looking down from a satellite, choose a random car in the city, and try to predict its movements. Not very easy. But predict the movements of the cars in the city as a whole, as people arrive from suburbs in the morning and return to them at night? Much easier.
Consider the state of a city recorded 50 years ago. Using that dataset, try to predict the future movements of cars in the city using your fancy algoritm over the next 5 decades.
Now, compare the results you achieved through the algorithm with last years traffic. Did the results match?
I think a good way to show the problem with science is to say this: "Science shows an unborn fetus is life." It is life, but then, so is toe fungus.