-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:43 am, David Honig wrote: > At 02:00 PM 10/2/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > >And if you can put up a bloody huge enough launcher on the moon, (use > >solar energy or nuclear - why not - it is one place in the system that > >we don't care about pollution) then you can send material back all the > >way to LEO by slingshot, and when it is captured by the facility at LEO, > > And Lloyds pays out when you miss the catch? > > (Then again, NASA played plutonium slingshot without coverage... )
Bah. Read a physics text sometime. Miss the catch and the payload continues on in it's original path, which would be at a tangent to the intended orbit and therefore to the surface. As for NASA playing "plutonium slingshot", they did indeed - with a huge margin for error, and a design so pessimistic that even if the damned thing had slammed head-on into the planet, there would almost certainly have been zero contamination. If the canister HAD broken, the contamination would have been roughly on the scale of Three Mile Island, which killed 0 people and did 0 environmental damage. If you and the other idiots want to object to the things NASA and others do, fine. Be my guest. But do your homework FIRST. - -- Matt Beland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rearviewmirror.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7udl8BxcVTa6Gy5wRAu0AAJ93/TITE97kXPo52yd+5gjEJQqYLACfTZHb mplHm14BS0ZzA62i+DyW6go= =4cvG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
