- Original Message - From: Ron Baalke - Mars Exploration Program Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mars Landers Create Opportunity For Web-Linked Sundials Around The World Office of News and InformationUniversity of WashingtonSeattle, WashingtonF
Thank you Michael!
This puts some of the unknowns into perspective. I believe in turning
dreams into reality and I know that there is a lot of grunt work that needs
to happen between the two extremes.
Joe L.
>
> Joe Latrell asks about space elevators:
>
>> 1. How do you get it down in the f
--- Michael Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know how much perturbation is expected, but
> remember that
> the center of mass is about 23,000 miles out. At
> those distances,
> GEO satellites carry rather small engines to correct
> for perturbations
> that accumulate over *decades* of
(BYet another afterthought: Ray Bradbury coined the phrase, "From romance to
(Breality," with the implicit suggestion that the romance can be retained in
(Bthe process. Real life is seldom like that, however.
(B
(BIs there anything less romantic than a civil engineering project? And yet,
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