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#1026 Re: Interplanetary transportation » How Fast will a one megawatt solar powered laser » 2004-03-09 19:29:52

So how fast will the H2 or He molecule go if it is hit directly from behind with this powerfull laser?

#1027 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 19:25:46

Not from what I have seen on the H2 purity meter the exact opposite happens.

#1029 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 18:07:41

So there is H2 inside the tube, and it is at the same height as the atmosphere outside the tube at its highest point. So the gasses will seperate over time as they do inside the Generator casing.

#1030 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 17:29:56

I agree with you I don't think a balloon is needed. Lets just put 7 psig of H2 followed by 2 psig of He. This gives us a total of 9 psig of total gas pressure. Now we can let the tube equalize with atmosphere from the bottom. We should have 3 seperate layers of gas within the tube now that is equalized with the outside air pressure. H2 at the top, He in the middle ,and Atmospheric air at the bottom. AGREE?

#1031 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 16:29:36

Still that is a very high altitude for H2 with just 7 psig admitted to the vacummed out tube, and a lot of volume indeed contained within the tube. How is this a plumbing trick when it is doable?

#1032 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 15:36:48

Not talking about a balloon this time. Lower the hook to a point below the gas then pull the gas futher up the tube to the station above it. How low do you have to lower the hook?

#1033 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 15:14:45

Well, you could lower the hook to a point just below the H2 gas then have the hook make a sealed connection against the pipe wall and then raise the hook thus pulling all the gas out of the pipe like a pump.

#1034 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 15:01:13

Yes but from there it can be plucked up higher with a crane from an orbiting station.Therefore, it never reached escape velocity.In fact it had to slow down all the way to its highest point before the crane can snatch it up.

#1037 Re: Life on Mars » What Will Opportunity Find at Endurance? - Place Your Bets Now! » 2004-03-09 08:12:22

Perhaps, living spheres???? Ones that are futher below the surface could still be living????

#1038 Re: Unmanned probes » Broken spherele has dark spot inside it???? » 2004-03-09 05:49:05

Looks to me like they are growing as they eat the sulfur rich rock. Look at the small one then compare to the lower left larger one. You can see how the bedrock has been consumed next to the sphere and then the sphere grows into the space it just ate somehow. And what is that veiny looking structure in that one to the left??? Looks like the seam on a baseball.

[http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/1M1316 … 1.JPG.html]http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/1M1316 … 1.JPG.html

#1039 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-09 04:26:02

Looks like the bigger tube is better. Well once the balloon is at it highest point inside the tube, perhaps they can just pick it up the rest of the way with a crane mounted above it. The H2 doesn't have to be at escape velocity then.

#1040 Re: Interplanetary transportation » GRAVITY QUESTION? » 2004-03-09 04:03:53

So if the Earth was not rotating we would be heavier than we actually are? I bet that bulge is also in the ocean. Perhaps, it is what gives the ocean its currents.

#1041 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-08 20:55:45

Ok, lets try a solid ribbon of Nanotube material this time instead of a hollow one. Even though it is solid, it is still very hollow.For instance,there are billions of tiny tubes within the nanotube, and a molecule of H2 just fits within the diameter  of them. Now the wall of the tube has an effect on the molecules now. Also, would capillary action start to work here now?

#1042 Re: Interplanetary transportation » GRAVITY QUESTION? » 2004-03-08 20:41:42

So centrfical force is greater than the force of gravity at the equator?

#1043 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-08 20:31:21

Rotational velocity increases as the radius increases. At the equator if you are standing still you are still moving about 1000 mph. So, at sea level the molecules must also be moving about the same velocity. The higher you move out from the axis of rotation the molecules in the tube should be accelerating. If I placed a ball in a three foot pipe and threw it, it would travel much faster than if I threw it without the pipe.

#1044 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-08 19:59:57

This is why the balloon in the tube will work.Physics says,when radius increases, the gravitational force decreases. This is why the hydrogen balloon rises in the tube along with the atomic weight of the element.

#1045 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-08 19:45:40

So now that a high altitude balloon has the H2 contained inside the tube can you you use a particle beam from that point to get it further out in space? The balloon can be used as a storage tank for the particle beam so it can be transferred to another storge tank in space.

#1046 Re: Interplanetary transportation » GRAVITY QUESTION? » 2004-03-08 18:36:32

Is gravity different at the north, and south poles than it is at the Equator?

#1049 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-08 18:04:32

Lower than the height of the balloon at the point at which it was popped?

#1050 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Physics transfers fuel inside carbon nano tube - fuel into space » 2004-03-08 17:57:27

The simple fact that the H2 raised a few hundred feet after poping the balloon in the upward direction proves they are moving faster at least in that direction.

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