Overpopulation Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Overpopulation
# 5965 bydehammer@... on May 22, 2006, 10:18 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
I disagree. if the launchers were build at a sufficently high
altitude there would be much cheaper launches, much safer, and much
larger payloads.
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> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"
> wrote:
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> > From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > panamabob@
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> > > escape velocity, some 7 miles per second seems to me to create
> > > some serious friction issues.
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> > Like a meteor in reverse, only worse. Some kind of ablative heat
> shield
> > would be called for. And I don't even want to think about Mach
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