Possible Challenger To Sputnik, manhole first manmade object in space? |
Possible Challenger To Sputnik, manhole first manmade object in space? |
Jan 3 2006, 03:42 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 18-April 05 Member No.: 250 |
I was browsing around and found some intresting articles about there is some debate whether or not a metal cover for a underground nuke test a few months before Sputnik made it to space or not. Pictures from the test (launch??) give a lower bound of its velocity at 56km/s. the main argument agianst is that it would have blead off the speed in the atmosphere. anyways, kinda cool
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/...ob.html#PascalB http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html what do you think? m |
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Jan 4 2006, 05:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Ed, that's a Larry Niven short story, called (IIRC) "What Can You Say About Chocolate-Covered Manhole Covers?"
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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