🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <pete.724946089@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:
> shag@aero.org (Robert M. Unverzagt) writes:
> >In article <1grnvaINN5i7@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST201026@brownvm.brown.edu (nathan marsh) writes:
> >> In article <1gqv3tINN6so@news.aero.org>, shag@aero.org (Robert M. Unverzagt)
> >> said:
> >> >He plotted power-to-weight ratio vs. mean time to failure for
> >> >all sorts of things -- alarm clocks, cars, gas turbines,
> >> >Saturn V's, etc. on log-log paper.  You guessed it -- it's a
> >> >line.
> >
> >Right -- higher power-to-weight decreases mean time to failure.  For
> >a "typical" launch vehicle it was something like 4 hours between
> >failures.  You can't do too much about it for rockets -- decrease the
> >power and you don't get enough "oomph" (note the technical jargon),
> >increase the weight and you're in the same boat.  Moral -- expect to
> >lose a Space Shuttle now and then.
> 
> Oh dear; does this mean that we should start to worry about the sun?
> 
Good point -- what's the power-to-mass ratio of the sun, anyway?


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