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How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - Ombligo - 04-25-2016
Sometimes you need a way to put things in perspective
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - neophyte - 04-25-2016
I read somewhere that the first stage flight of the Saturn V was the most expensive 40-odd miles (in terms of fuel) ever traveled by humans.
Hope you have an ordinary day, Ombligo.
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - Article Accelerator - 04-25-2016
And then there's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter
27,000,000 lbf of initial thrust…no idea of how many elephants of fuel that entails.
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - Paul F. - 04-26-2016
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - GGD - 04-26-2016
Paul F. wrote:
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.
And if you remove the water from the elephants, you can carry a lot more of them.
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - vitus - 04-26-2016
Paul F. wrote:
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.
Stage 1 used RP-1 and LOX
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - Racer X - 04-26-2016
GGD wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
To put something else in perspective; the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellants, the exhaust oh which was: Water.
And if you remove the water from the elephants, you can carry a lot more of them.
That's a lot of jerky.......
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - MGS_forgot_password - 04-26-2016
I think one of the START treaties prohibited the Titan 2 from having MIREs.
(Multiple Independent Reentry Elephants)
Re: How to put an elephant (or 763 pachyderms) into space - Racer X - 04-27-2016
That was passed after the Strategic Aardvark Limitation Treaty, right?