On Thu, 29 May 2003 01:00:42 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My first thought is that, for an orbital vehicle, >undercarriage strength, and not runway length, will be the main concern in such a >circumstance. (Randall might say "Splat!" ;-) )
No no. Splat candidates do NOT get to fly these vehicles. :-) (An in joke - if you don't get it, you should have come to SiliCon last year. Gerald ran a Contact track. Gerald is a sadist. Gerald gave me an iceball planet with vicious tides, and I had less than 48 hours to evolve life and develop a spacefaring civilization. Thank God I was smart enough to call Michael. "Splat" is explained in my after action reports, which are too off topic to post here, but are available on request.) (PS - it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun without the challenge of overcoming Gerald's sadistically cold environment. Like the rules of sonnet composition, a sadistic environment is more a help than a hindrance. Not that I don't dread the next planet Gerald dreams up!) -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
