On a brighter note I have a request for anyone on the list
interested. I am currently working on a rocket and shuttle 
design to take the $10,000,000 dollar prize for creating a
reusable 3 person or greater craft that can attain orbit 
to the 62 mile high edge of space and go back up in 2 
weeks. I will need an autopilot, preferably w/ access to 
the GPS for tracking position for use in guidance. Any coders 
out there interested? Yes, I confess, I am a rocket scientist. 
I don't have a PhD but I am a physicist by training. With a 
spattering of aerospace engineering. Just found out about the 
$10,000,000 prize today, so that project is coming off the back 
burner. I'm going to need a bunch of code. Need to pull down a
CAD/CAM program too. Don't think I have one installed right 
now. 

[Note to self find those darn airfoil tables, what cd did I
burn them on anyway?]

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Hull [mailto:dphull@insipid.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:52 PM
> To: Jeremy Fowler
> Cc: Kclug@Kclug. Org
> Subject: Re: OT: Stellar tech to ignite big-bang project
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> 
> > Anyone else see the problem of recreating the Big Bang?
> > 
> > "Grey said scientists are pretty sure the collider will 
> produce the conditions
> > they need to create the particles, if they exist at all."
> > 
> > Um... it's a BIG BANG dude. Like create-the-universe kinda 
> bang. Like
> > blow-us-the-f*ck-up kinda big bang... Well, I'm sure 
> they're much smarter than
> > me, so I'll assume they know what their doing.
> > 
> > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-995004.html
> 
> I remember listening to a guest on Art Bell a few years back 
> discussing "Super 
> Nova from the Super Collider." The guest was suggesting that 
> the Fermilabs 
> Super Collider (I believe it's outside Chicago) would be 
> large and powerfull 
> enough to actually create a super nova, everything within 
> 250K miles would be 
> instantly vaporized.
> 
> At least it would be quick and painless.
> 
> Of course, this was the Art Bell show, but the guy had 
> impressive credentials 
> like a Doctorate in Physics from some made up university somewhere.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Hull
> http://insipid.com
> 
> The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in 
> the ten thousand
> years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild 
> animals, because man
> is and will always be a wild animal.
> -- Charles Galton Darwin
> 
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