On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:42:00 -0500 (EST), Henry Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yep... but there's no reason why a bigger mass fraction would take much >longer. I don't know exactly how long it took to tank up a V-2, but it >wasn't lengthy. They did it in combat conditions, so it was bloody fast. A better parallel than end user automobile refueling might be pit crew race car refueling. One guy, 60 gallons, 15 seconds. And USAC mass fractions are pretty high, gotta be 15% to 25%. >Careful here -- note that over half of that budget is passenger handling. Yep. Always slow, and that's going to start mattering. Take a lesson from roller coasters? From Marine Corps boot camp? "Get off the bus! Get off get off get off my bus! Now, Private! NOW!" OK, maybe not Marine Corps boot camp. :-) -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
