Newsgroups: alt.slack,sci.astro.amateur
Subject: Re: Mathematical/Aerospace Question
From: Bop.Bleeeerch.HOOOOARGH.Excuse me (RevLurch)
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:47:10 GMT
>Sketchy Albedo <revjack@radix.net> wrote:
>How hard would it be to launch a human head into permanent orbit around
>the earth? I've been talking to the satellite guys at work and there seems
>to be quite a wide range of orbital choices. Low Earth Orbits can be as
>low as 200 miles, but the geosynchronous orbits are way, way out there,
>like 22,000 miles or so. It seems like with such a low payload you just
>might be able to do it unmanned without a lot of trouble. I'm still
>undecided as to which is more asthetically proper, having the thing
>transit over you a couple times a day or having it just *hang* out there.
>--
>_________________
>revjack@radix.net
might be able to get it into low earth-orbit with a home-built
solid-fuel (aluminum powder) booster you could construct for three
or four mil or thereabouts. As I understand it, you just have to
get it up to escape velocity (18,000 miles per hour or so) then cut
the power and jettison the head when the ship is at the proper angle
and altitude. But if all that sounds infeasable, maybe you could take
a couple of cases of good Vodka and cartons of smokes to Russia and
bribe a guy heading up to the Mir station. He could hide the head in
his lunchbox (Rooskies is big eaters) and pitch it out when he gets up
there. If he gives it a good hard throw it should travel far enough
from the station so it won't be staring at the occupants, and
establish itself in low earth orbit, along with the piss bags and
empty toothpaste tubes and other assorted space debris. But it's orbit
might eventually decay and you'd have a hot head heading back to
Earth. Or a small meaty-or.
Whose head was you thinkin' of sending up?
lurch
Easier to ask whose head I'm not thinkin' of sending up.
-Sketchy
Newsgroups: alt.slack,sci.astro.amateur
Subject: Re: Mathematical/Aerospace Question
From: dallastexas@earthlink.net (RiM)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 02:31:36 GMT
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:27:42 GMT,
TarzAuntBea@AHHHHeeeYAHooooodlooodlyAAAAAHhh.GoodnessGracious!
(RevLurch) wrote:
>twgs@thepoint.net (Doktor D) wrote:
>>On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:45:02 GMT, Bop.Bleeeerch.HOOOOARGH.Excuse me
>>(RevLurch) wrote:
>>>Whose head was you thinkin' of sending up?
>>Well, gee, I just assumed this was Arnold Palmer we were taling about
>>here.
>Yeah, I thought about that. But I didn't know if his tailpipe cancer
>had forced a substitution.
just john denver, since you shits didnt bother to read anything about
it, allow me clue you in,
i want head fins, something like Flash,
somebody wants the head boiled in acid
somebody else wants to shoot it out of a rocket-thingy.
there are more, but i have no time, too much planning
things to do ect. ect.
so far its a go for launch - dont know when, since Pope Angus
kindly pointed out that jd already lauched his OWN fucking
head - a forward thinking man.
now try to keep up will ya.
RiM