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To: Thatcherite

We could get to Mars with Newton, perhaps not as directly or efficiently. We could probably do it with vacuum tubes and slide rules, also. It's a matter of decimal places.


313 posted on 10/17/2005 12:46:32 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138; RadioAstronomer

I imagine that you'd get to Mars in the end if you course corrected on the way and used more fuel than the most efficient trajectory. If you aim from earth using Newton you'll miss Mars orbit. I have this on authority from Radio Astronomer, whose job it actually is to calculate the orbits.


315 posted on 10/17/2005 12:51:14 PM PDT by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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