wonderful dream, max, but could you smole a pipe on a
zeppelin; would they be hydrogen or helium? how would
you avoid another hindenberg?
jlm
Luxury Zeppelins. I think it's high time we had nice
luxury zeppelin
travel. Floating 5-star bars in the sky with ample
leg room and good
views. No
So what about all of the packages and people
that (in the words of the commercial)
absolutely, positively, have to be there by 9 AM?
-- Ronn! :)
for the present, those people have to be satisfied,
but some day, in the not too distant furure, it will
no longer be realistic to ship freight
On 0, jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled:
wonderful dream, max, but could you smole a pipe on a
zeppelin; would they be hydrogen or helium? how would
you avoid another hindenberg?
jlm
As I recall, wasn't the Hindenburg disaster due to the flammable paint and a
known design flaw
Gwern Branwen wrote:
As I recall, wasn't the Hindenburg disaster due to the flammable
paint and a known design flaw which allowed the buildup of static
electricity? I have little doubt we could do better today.
Helium could be used instead of Hydrogen. If cost is the problem,
then use
Helium could be used instead of Hydrogen. If cost is
the problem, then use Methane.
Alberto Monteiro, who can't count.
lots of methane in new zealand - 70m sheep, each
emitting a barrel a day here is another source:
http://www.ciesin.org/TG/AG/ricecult.html
jlm
On 5/9/07, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gwern Branwen wrote:
As I recall, wasn't the Hindenburg disaster due to the flammable
paint and a known design flaw which allowed the buildup of static
electricity? I have little doubt we could do better today.
Helium could be used
On 5/9/07, jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what about all of the packages — and people —
that (in the words of the commercial)
absolutely, positively, have to be there by 9 AM?
-- Ronn! :)
for the present, those people have to be satisfied,
but some day, in the not too distant
Max Battcher wrote:
On 5/9/07, jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what about all of the packages — and people —
that (in the words of the commercial)
absolutely, positively, have to be there by 9 AM?
-- Ronn! :)
for the present, those people have to be satisfied,
but some day, in
I know that Gautam, at least, enjoyed my article The economics of space
transportation and thought that some of you might be interested in the
second part of my series on the economics of space. This one is called
The economics of interface transportation and covers the launch
vehicle market
