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US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Passes 500 Days in Orbit
Space.com ^
| Aril 24, 2014
| Mike Wall, Senior Writer
Posted on 04/24/2014 9:19:06 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: pfflier
I hate the limitation of chemical fuels, but nuclear ones tend to leave a blasted radioactive wasteland of the launch site. I like the Larry Niven solution: air compressed almost to neutron degeneracy. Is that possible? Not now, maybe later.
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04/24/2014 12:03:22 PM PDT
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: corkoman
US Air Force’s Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Passes 500 Days in Orbit
It’s stuck in orbit.
To: aegiscg47
Ooh, interesting idea. It’s big enough to hold a rail gun and some tungsten projectiles...
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04/24/2014 1:06:05 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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from the wiki-wacky:
The OTV-1 X-37B in April 2010, inside its payload fairing prior to launch
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04/24/2014 1:08:50 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/24/2014 1:10:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(He'd really fit in around here in some topics.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
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04/24/2014 1:16:21 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I tend to like fermions more than bosons. But then I think “where would I be without bosons”? I can’t decide.
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04/24/2014 1:22:24 PM PDT
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Cap’t Kirk probably said the same thing. In fact, pretty much any captain.
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04/24/2014 3:05:28 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Well here's one fermion he learned to avoid. The hard way and a little too late.
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04/24/2014 5:48:12 PM PDT
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: lbryce
“What do you mean, you forgot to load the return to earth program.”
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posted on
04/24/2014 5:55:37 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
(Wisdom is learned, cynicism is earned.)
To: FreedomOfExpression
The X37B is unmanned
Are the stewardesses all female then? I'm not sure, but that would seem sexist to me...
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posted on
04/24/2014 5:56:55 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: Delta Dawn
Hey, I don’t make the rules, but I do like them sometimes.
To: tet68
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posted on
04/25/2014 1:43:06 PM PDT
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Jacquerie
(Article V.)
To: Jacquerie
I was just trying to come up with some reason for
the long flight, it is curious.
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04/25/2014 2:12:02 PM PDT
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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