Shuttle

[jutka]

A professor at my university had a lot of his experimental work destroyed when the shuttle went down. Imagine years' worth of work going up in flames just like that!
I think it was research into protein crystals, and treatment of disease.

also destroyed much medical research of incalculable value. This is a continuing outrage. We cannot find the money for flood control or safe reliable spacecraft, but we can find unlimited funds for sports stadium after sports stadium and war after war. I say crap on it!

Let us get our priorities straight here! http://www.nuclearspace.com/a_liberty_ship.htm

RESPECTFULLY,T.

[justoleme]

Like looking for a place around Gallveston Island where Lafayette may have burried treasure? Is lost money the source of government revenue?

Lafayette confused with Lafitte.

And the sources of government revenue differ, from taxation to tariffs to fees for specific services, etc. Government also claims a share of salvaged treasure recovered in territorial waters from time to time.

If you read "Expedition Whydah" by Barry Clifford you can learn more about treasure salvage, pirate treasure no less! It should be available at your library and is recommended by your loyal friend tovarisch.

Returning to the topic, an alternative to the Shuttle must clearly be found. It should be more robust and have greater capacity- both of these would be facilitated by abandoning our single-minded fixation with chemical rockets. They have reached the practical limit in terms of specific impulse delivered.

If America cannot abandon its perverse nuclear phobia, there are alternatives.

Laser propulsion is such an option. By focusing multiple laser beams on a target such as a block of ice clamped to the tail of Shuttle II, we effectively leave a powerful, complex and fully reuseable "motor" on the ground, only lofting the payload and the necessary reaction mass into and beyond the atmosphere. Indeed we could pump launches out assembly-line fashion, as soon as the lasers are recharged, ZAP! another payload delivered into orbit. And for bigger payloads, just add more lasers. This would also make one helluva missle defense, obviously, so maybe we could get the Pentagon to pick up part of the tab...

PEACE,T.

[carter]

Yo Tovsky, really dude, defying physical laws of gravity requires a little more technology and material than that used to make a gin and tonic. Man, you are a odd little moron. You're like a moronic plague, maybe even like a message board transmitted form of cerebral scabbies.

Let me assure you that you are a Jew hating, psychopathic mentally challenged moron. And I do think you need to be reminded, often. You are, so I do.

lasers are used in the preparation of mixed drinks.

Would you care to elaborate, carter?

And I assure you that laser thermal rockets will operate in the atmospere of the Earth, although of course the beams will have greater range in space.

As usual you are long on insults and short on facts, if every Jew were like you I would indeed be an antiSemite, boychik.

And who could blame me?

SHALOMPUTZ,T.

nor are the people pictured necessarily Jews.

Yes, it's true, the Nazis killed people other than Jews!

Really!

The people in the photograph could very easily be among the 500,000 Gypsies(Rom) who were killed just as dead as the Jews of the infamous Holocaust. Or homosexuals.

So when do they get their own little countries and billions of American taxpayer dollars, eye?

Meanwhile, schmuck, you have yet to explain why it is you champion the Israeli cause, as they are pursuing a policy very similar to that of Nazi Germany regarding a despised ethnic minority.

SHALOM,T.