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 | | To: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39) Cc: KellySt@aol.com, hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu, T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl, stevev@efn.org, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, rddesign@wolfenet.com, David@interworld.com, lparker@destin.gulfnet.com, DotarSojat@aol.com, sl0c8@cc.usu.edu, MLEN3097@Mercury.GC.PeachNet.EDU, 101765.2200@compuserve.com Subject: Fwd: Re: Family SSTO design Please don't add 200K attachments to mail messages, especially 200K BinHexed attachments that typically only Mac users can decode. |
 | | In other words for every mile of plasma you could just as well use 50 cm of aluminium plating, without the need to contain an renew the plasma. |
 | | Don't underestimate the velocity difference, I believe meteor speeds are in the 1E4 m/s range, since kinetic energy squares velocity (E=0.5mv^2) the difference in velocity (4 orders of magnetude) will double to about 8 orders of magnetude. |
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