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>. wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:
> In article <1992Nov2.175554.26242@kbsw1>, chris@kbsw3.UUCP (Chris Kostanick 806 1044) writes...
> >In article <1992Oct30.221951.19045@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
> >>further  reduce the descent velocity.  At 4.3 km above the surface, the
> >>three thrusters were shut off, and the spacecraft simply dropped the
> >>remainder of the way down, landing at a velocity of 11 km/hour. 
> >>
> > 
> > 
> >If I understand you correctly, this means that I could drop over
> >a mile on the moon and walk away from the landing. (I can walk into
> >a wall at better than 6 miles an hour and not get hurt.) This
> >opens up the possibility for some _outrageous_ trampoline action
> >on the moon. Drop a mile, hit the trampoline and bounce almost a
> >mile back up. This sounds like big action fun. We need to go back
> >to the moon NOW.
> > 
> > 
> >-- 

Try reading Heinliens "The Menace From Earth".  I think he ran the numbers
pretty thoroughly (he usually did), and discovered that under 1/6 g, with a
slightly higher pressure than STP (air pressure at 20degC at sea level),
it would be possible for humans to strap on wings and actually fly!  We're
not talking hang gliders here, we're talking bird-type, flappy-wing FLYING.

He set up the story with a Lunar colony using something similar to a salt
dome (a lava dome?) as an air reservior, thus providing both the room and
the above normal air pressure necessary.  An interesting concept.

> >Chris Kostanick
> >"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog
> >it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"What this country needs is a good five cent nickel" - G. Marx

> 
> Oh well Ron shoulda dropped the "k" in "km" then it works just fine. Hey
> its only decimal points!! 
> 
> Kinda like Clintons tax and spend plans.

When it's _three_ decimal places, it's more like Regan/Bush supply side
economics.

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