what do you mean by stops? they are mounted on arms, was my understanding. and try standing on a free spinning platform. spin a bike tire while holding it so it orients vertically, grab it by the center, and turn it 90 degrees. fun experiment.
On 6/11/07, thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Vortexians; I'm listening to Richard C Hoagland being interviewed on C to C AM. He said that the space station has four gyros in it. They are multi thousand pound units, these gyros. He said that they had rotated against the stops. If the gyros break the stops, the station becomes uncontrollable. I'm wondering how this can be possible? I realize that just because the unit is weightless, inertia is still manifesting itself. It seems odd to me that the space station would rotate against these stops however. Then there's the matter of heat shield. Richard says that the plan is to glue a blanket over it. I'm wondering how the hell the vehicle's heat shield got a four foot gash in it? It isn't often that Dr. Parksie and I agree on anything, but the space shuttle, and the space station, are two of them. IMHO, the guy who designed a bell shaped capsule, with a one piece heat shield had the right idea, ditto for the rocket pack used to slow down the Mars lander, just before touch down. IMHO, if I set out to design the worst possible vehicle, I'd end up with the shuttle. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
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