🚀 go-pugleaf

TTK Ciar wrote:
> 
> Once upon a time, netspider4@lycos.com (Karl-Hugo Weesberg) said:
> >   Date: 26 Oct 2004 00:59:51 -0700
> >
> >I want to send a rocket into outer space, but iron and copper seem to
> >be too heavy.What material should I use for my rocket?
> 
> This is for writing a school paper, I would guess?
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He's a NASA diversity-hire engineer charged with getting the Space
Scuttle up into the air and back down in May 2005 (possibly pushed
back to June 2010).  The SSBs are rebar steel and spec'd out by a
Jamaican whose previous employ involved 55 gallon discards and steel
drums.  Could be worse.  How would you like to be the sorry SOB
working on the NASA Advanced Propulsion giant rubber band launcher? 
Or the 83 managers and two grade school kids design team exploring
"President in Space?"

Littie Jimmy, "It would be cool if the President wore an aluminum foil
helmet."

Senior Associate Assistant NASA Special Engineering Directorate
Alternate Summer Intern, "I'm hearing 'custom-fit centimeter-thick
tantalum carbide crepe cerebral radiation dispersion carapace with
triple redundant emergency disaggregation option.'  We must start
feasiblity studies on how to color anodize the Presidential seal into
the material."

Anybody want to take bets that when they translate the whole thing
into Engish units it will be 2.54 inches to the centimeter?

Uncle Al says, "Launch Canada!  No hurricanes, cheap labor, crappy
lawyers, and nothing to damage on hypersonic impact."

-- 
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
 (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf