I need to research what the Thermosphere is.... ...but once you are in a stable orbit the amount of matter is a few atoms per cubic meter, so it doesn't really matter how hot it is since the matter comprising a space vehicle would fill several cubic ...

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Correct! The "army" had been working upon ballistics for 2 centuries at least. Werner Braun fixed the control mechanisms for the rockets (I'm sure he had help) along with all the mechanical issues that come up to bite you when you start pushing the ...

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When I was a lad..... I flew on a VC10 operated by BOAC. They had a thing called The Junior Jet Club, and members could peek at the cockpit in those days. They had 4 flight crew, not including the stewards and stewardesses. One of those was a ...

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It would glow if it was that hot

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Newtonian mechanics took us to the moon. We had barely invented the computer. Werner Braun did all the work ... do you think he would have listened to a Jew?

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...because they're too busy killing each other.

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I was referring to this....

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Sympathies. I heard Kathleen (?) Brooks on R5-Live Wake-up-to-money the other day, she said that the oil cycle is 10-years. If that is true there is not going to be a pick-up any time soon. I am still holding most of my previous, and recently ...

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Thx. Yes I saw that reference the other day

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At this rate we could be back to sub-$30.... BTW today is Tuesday

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I wish I had time to listen to London Paul, it was sounding intriguing. I wish I had time to..... I took until now to decide whether you were pulling my chain, in a pacifist dismissive sort of way, but I shall take it on face value. The only ...

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Just as you possibly thought the dust was settling.... url

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I thought his E=MC2 was a supposition that c is constant. TBH I have forgotten some of my Physics from A-level.... I have come to believe that our own big bang was not a unique event but possibly the eruption of a black hole.

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That is an unproven supposition If it were expanding at that rate two fundamental strictures of relativity would be flawed. a) matter cannot travel at the speed of light and b) we would not be able to 'see' the receding bits of the universe. I grant ...

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....notice how all the planes fell off the deck, already.

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Me too, but he was wrong about one thing .... there is no such thing as time, there is only change. Time was invented by man to measure change.

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I hope you're wrong too. Otherwise that is two previously competent military entities that are toothless. The UK has been a basket-case for a while now. The machinery wins the whole westernised culture is toast, IMHO

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...was it something like "fuk'em"

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