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WCDT 2106-2110 (January 23-27, 2012) - QC IN SPAAAAAACE!!!
AnAverageWriter:
So they're going into space...
In a giant mechanical Snoopy head?
I love this story arc!
KingofHearts:
Notice how she didn't say anything about it "not" turning into a mecha.
HiFranc:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Jan 2012, 22:40 ---I'd have thought Dr. E-C was powerful enough that he didn't have to listen to the government's demands.
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And the Government doesn't have to give him (or his representatives) permission to enter American airspace.
I doubt Dr E-C would want his daughter to have to fly halfway across the world to pick the space transport up.
Akima:
--- Quote from: starkruzr on 23 Jan 2012, 22:02 ---The wings are FAR too large, and the massive upsweep makes no sense.
EDIT: okay, assuming massive improvements in materials science by ECT, fine, the wings could be that big, but the upsweep still makes no sense.
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Many proposed "lifting body" designs have had sharply up-swept wings,
as have some more modern blended-wing aircraft and re-entry vehicle proposals, so I'll give Jeph the benefit of the doubt. Personally, rather than a woosy space-plane, I was hoping for a reuseable vertical take-off SSTO using a closed-cycle gaseous-core nuclear rocket (GCNR)! I mean, come on, this is the man who invented the robot hamster! A little thing like safely containing a blazing plasma of fissioning uranium hexaflouride should be child's play! Then he'd be able to throw roughly a thousand tonnes into LEO per launch on something like this. :-D But perhaps that would be too blue-collar for his daughter, so he's sent the executive jet.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Akima on 24 Jan 2012, 02:16 ---
--- Quote from: starkruzr on 23 Jan 2012, 22:02 ---The wings are FAR too large, and the massive upsweep makes no sense.
EDIT: okay, assuming massive improvements in materials science by ECT, fine, the wings could be that big, but the upsweep still makes no sense.
--- End quote ---
Many proposed "lifting body" designs have had sharply up-swept wings,
as have some more modern blended-wing aircraft and re-entry vehicle proposals, so I'll give Jeph the benefit of the doubt. Personally, rather than a woosy space-plane, I was hoping for a reuseable vertical take-off SSTO using a closed-cycle gaseous-core nuclear rocket (GCNR)! I mean, come on, this is the man who invented the robot hamster! A little thing like safely containing a blazing plasma of fissioning uranium hexaflouride should be child's play! Then he'd be able to throw roughly a thousand tonnes into LEO per launch on something like this. :-D But perhaps that would be too blue-collar for his daughter, so he's sent the executive jet.
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Cool looking prototype!
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