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Thanks, I will give it a try. Honestly, the fuel load never occured to me. It's also helpful to know why some Velcro launch scenarios start with the attached vessels "STATUS Orbiting Earth" -----Posted Added----- Not quite working. I have the AMSO CSM set up in series burn (as it is for...

You are one dark son of a *****, Andy! Now I know why it's always raining on you in your icon (should have been voted best ever, IMHO). I think there is a better chance that Obama will turn back the "unitary executive" power grab of the Bush/Chaney years - I certainly wouldn't expect McSame...

:rofl: Would that be anything like the unbridled revulsion that the right felt for Clinton (correction - both Clintons)? The right's revulsion was so unbridled they impeached Clinton because he lied about getting a BJ from a completely willing skank. (I wonder if Palin's kid engaged in revolting...

I spent some frustrating hours trying to launch an AMSO CSM into LEO with a Velcro Saturn B-I. I have been weaking the PITCHMULTIPLE and MINPITCH trying to make it work. Has anyone done this? If so, are you willing to share your scenario file? I plan to release v2 of Skylab1973 shortly and I...

I will allow for a (very small) possibility that Palin was joking. It's just the sort of ironic, bantering humor that can work face-to-face -- and effectively get your point across in a way that is hard to counter (Regan and Clinton could pull off that sort of thing). But it appears that...

The tone of the posting screamed blog-crap. Someday bloggers will learn to use the dispassionate, authoritative tones of older media types. Then innocents like me could be sucked into thier partisan ploys. (On the other hand, the loss of partisan edge might render most blogs irrelevant and...

Yawn... Keating Five. Blah, blah, blah. Another blogosheric "authority" spins some "facts." These "authorities" operate on both sides of the political divide, of course, and I am getting tired of both. (I confess I rather liked the military-contributions-favor-Obama-over-McCain-six-to-one...

I confess, my opinion is mostly an intuitive hunch based on some very thin and preliminary information (but intuition is a major component of my personality, and I trust it). Two items that wisper, IMHO, "Intellectual lightweight:" 1. Palin's membership in, and apparent devotion to, an...

ENTER SPACESHIP Andy, I look forward to receiving my share of the ass-kicking to be meted out by the "heavies." (It feels good when it stops!) See you in the ER.

Regretable Feudian slip, corrected before you made your post, actually;) Bad form on my part, sinking to junior high school name-calling, especially when I was trying to make a serious point... and trying to get in a dig at Greg Burch, my old friend and political sparring partner! Understood...

You should both take a breath -- and read this from the Air Force Times, quoting research from "Center for Responsive Politics" which the Air Force Times seems to think is an OK source. http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/05/army_militarydonors_050408w/ As Mark Twain so famouly said...

I liked that blog entry when first I read it two years ago. And there really can be no arguing with your calibration. This "self-loathing" intellectual liberal will readily concede that their fundementalists are currently worse than ours - more fearful, more inflexible, more brutal and (here's...

The best I can dream of is no one having WMD. But that's a dream. I don't imagine we (the U.S.) will give up ours, so everyone else will want to keep (or get) their own. How long can we stop them? And how much of principle, justice and decency will we sacrifice to do it? And how long can we...

I agree. Japan is also exceptional (unique) in having actually absorbed a nuclear attack (twice). Still, a payload is a payload - it doesn't matter to the rocket if the payload burns up upon reentry or reaches the ground and explodes. It would take no real effort at all to turn a civil space...

It seems to be general knowlege that Israel has "the bomb" so I would hope that America and Europe would stay out of the way and let Israel defend/avenge itself. An exchange of two or three atom bombs in the Middle East will not destroy the planet - and would probably not even destroy Israel...

Thanks for that! At 51 years old I sometimes wonder about my memory. I either recalled the scene correctly or Wikipedia is just as senile as I am. Thanks also to Biscuit - Space 1889 is hysterical:rofl: eveningsky339, there seems to be some real interest in a "retro" sci-fi add-on. I might...

That's what I meant - we both take pride in our war machines. For the Germans: Panzer IV, ME-262, etc. etc. Although, come to think of it, P-38... an American aircraft and a German sidearm.

Which is why I said "Dreadnaught-type." I suppose I could have said "Maine-type battleship" for a more accurate time frame, but I was referring to a British novel (and international readers might not get the Maine referrence) so I went with the British reference that came most readily to mind...

In the same vain, have you ever read H.G. Wells War of the Worlds? Forget Orsen Wells' radio program or any of the movies. In the book there is a wonderful description of a martian walking machine wading out into the English Channel to do battle with a late 19th century Dreadnaught-style battle...

Dave has got the point. When another vessel (with its own docking port properly configured to center on its own mesh) docks with Atlantis the two vessels will appear slightly misaligned. Because it is only 5 cm you often have to look closely at the vessels. This condition is much more apparent...