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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

I learned about that from an article about grandious
schemes that never made it, for obvious reasons.  The
only other one I remember was the mohole.
Van Dell


--- Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
> http://www.braingarage.com
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