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  • From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Morning musing
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:05:23 -0700

At 9/22/2007, you wrote:
Someone once proposed putting nuclear waste in a
rocket and sending it to the sun. Might work? until a
rocket blew up on takeoff.

And how much fossil energy would that take? It could be done by setting it on a course to the sun but the cost and amount of energy required to get it going fast enough to get out of this very deep gravity well is prohibitive. Then as you mention what about the occasional malfunction? The shuttle is as safe as we can make it and look at its problems.




Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up KI6DIU
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