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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: SpaceShipOne & Laughing Gas

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology … o...rubber

*Okay, interesting.  :-\  Maybe that's what's going on in another thread here...beware nitrous oxide. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: SpaceShipOne & Laughing Gas

I can't believe Space.com posting this, this is so... old news it's starting to smell!

i think if you google it , you can find gazillions of bad jokes about this, more than a year old

(Okay, I confess: i never liked Space.com for some reason... So i take any chance to swipe at them i can, like *2* popups everytime i visit? Ugh, makes me glad i changed to the Mozilla browser, for sure!)

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: SpaceShipOne & Laughing Gas

I can't believe Space.com posting this, this is so... old news it's starting to smell!

i think if you google it , you can find gazillions of bad jokes about this, more than a year old

*Really??   

Well...  ???

I'm sure I'd not read this before, but I do so much reading.

Yeah, space.com makes it sound like it's NEW news...

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: SpaceShipOne & Laughing Gas

aaaaw... Sorry Cindy, this was *not* meant as a critique on you, after re-reading my entry, it does sound a bit (?) blasé, mr-know-it-all...

It's just that i not only frequent NewMars a lot (toom much?), but I'm following the Reusable launch vehicules eagle-eyed, too. All of 'em, heehee...

BTW, Armadillo did a very nice testlaunch of (one of) their subscale vehicule(s), check their site! J.C. has stated he's going orbital in the -unspecified- future, too!

No, I never sleep, why do you ask? 

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: SpaceShipOne & Laughing Gas

aaaaw... Sorry Cindy, this was *not* meant as a critique on you, after re-reading my entry, it does sound a bit (?) blasé, mr-know-it-all...

It's just that i not only frequent NewMars a lot (toom much?), but I'm following the Reusable launch vehicules eagle-eyed, too. All of 'em, heehee...

BTW, Armadillo did a very nice testlaunch of (one of) their subscale vehicule(s), check their site! J.C. has stated he's going orbital in the -unspecified- future, too!

No, I never sleep, why do you ask? 

*No sleep?   

I didn't take anything personally...so there's absolutely no need for you to apologize or anything. 

Okay Rik, so you're running on adrenaline (lack of sleep)...I'm running on stress.  Too bad there's not a way to bottle up those sorts of energies and sale them to the rocket companies.   :;):

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: SpaceShipOne & Laughing Gas

Hee Hee...

To make sure: i do sleep, i'm just behind my 'puter too much, oftentimes.

(and sometimes i *do* not sleep for days, running on caffeine, too bad my voice wears out after day two... Wich is a real bugger on oral exams and the like...)