| Re: [GMCnet] Way off topic: Largest rocket to ever be launched. [message #328912 is a reply to message #328882] |
Wed, 07 February 2018 07:18   |
Ronald Pottol
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I thought Saturn V was about 7.5m pounds of thrust vs about 5 for the
Falcon Heavy. And a bigger payload to orbit, but not by a whole bunch.
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:17 AM, Ronald Pottol
wrote:
> It's a first flight, they always have dummy payloads. It also demonstrated
> going through the Van Allen belts, and doing a second burn on the motor,
> which is of interest to the Air Force. So, some showmanship in service of
> testing and demonstrating a number of capacities.
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:08 AM, Bruce Hislop wrote:
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>> Hurling a Tesla car into space because he can? Doesn't that pretty much
>> negate any reduction in pollution emission's that all electric cars have
>> saved to this point in time?
>> I don't get it.
>> --
>> Bruce Hislop
>> ON Canada
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>> My Staff says I never listen to them, or something like that
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