On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:33:28 -0500 (EST), Henry Spencer
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>Twelve RSOs yelling,
>...
>And a drum of peroxide tin free.
Nicely done, Henry. :-)
OTOH...
>Twelve RSOs yelling,
John never yelled - he just gave people that sickly smile of his.
People outside the Bay Area probably haven't seen it. "Are you really
going to make me kill you? I don't want to, but if you don't shut up,
I'm going to have to." To steal a line from Doug Jones, "It scared
me, and I'm fearless."
And Dave M isn't yelling - he just talks *really loud*. :-)
>Seven hundred permits,
Ack! Let's hope not!
>Six KISSes flying,
Could happen. It looks like KISS is going to morph into Spike pretty
soon, though. KISS IV is looking like it's going to be KISS III with
new fins so we can fly it with 10 liters, and dual deployment so we
don't keep tearing up expensive Rocketman EX parachutes, or have to
chase the rocket a couple miles across the desert. (Yes, I know it's
a rite of passage. We've rote it, already.)
The Spike/KISS boundary was always a little blurry, and it's getting
blurrier. I don't think this has made it to the list yet (minutes?
What minutes?) but at the last Spike meeting, Sean proposed, and we
adopted, building the engine first, and designing the vehicle only
after we've validated the engine. This is essentially a defensive
move, designed to ensure that we don't build a vehicle into which the
aerospike engine won't fit, which since we're going to build a
conventional engine for the vehicle as a control, would give us
nothing more than a monster KISS. (Both Daves said, "And this is bad,
why?" :-) "Because the project's name is Spike." They looked
agreeable.)
One approach would be to get a rough idea how big the engine will be,
build a rocket more than big enough for it, and call that a KISS
vehicle. This would also make Dan happy, since he's having visions of
100+ liter versions of KISS. We haven't kicked this idea around yet.
>And a drum of peroxide tin free.
Yay! A *big* drum.
(_Split Second_, I think it was, Rutger Hauer is a timeworn cop
partnered with a scientist from Oxford. The scientist has an
Asimovian attitude toward guns, until the bad guy - an alien - runs
past them at 50 mph, knocks the academic across the room, and escapes
by kicking through a six inch armor steel door. All while Hauer is
blasting away at him with a 12 gauge.
("What do you think?" Hauer asks.
("We need bigger guns."
("Bigger guns?"
("Bigger guns. BIG f***ing guns!")
Come to think of it, sans the foul language, that sounds disturbingly
like Dan's attitude toward KISS... ;-)
-R
PS Henry's song should go on the FAQ list. :-)
--
"You haven't been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
-- Paul Crickmore
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