The Rocket Guy does a live show

From: "Sir Oldham Coupler IV" <zcraneees3@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2002

THE ROCKET GUY PLAN: (EarthStar One)
It may be a technical dream but he's just crazy enough to push that button.

The goal is to go straight up 30 miles. There are no plans for orbit, just to
set the altitude record for a private citizen. Orbit requires going at least
170 miles up and going 17,000 MPH around the earth. Lots of up and lots
of sideways. Going up to a straight up to a stop and dropping back down is
different.

The rocket will be fueled by 90 percent pure hydrogen peroxide.
It reacts with a silver catalyst screen to produce thrust. This is the same
thing
the Bell jet belt used. Footage of the Bell jet belt was used in the
TV series "Lost in Space" the TV series. This fuel only has about
1/3 the energy of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. That's why it usually
isn't used for a rocket. Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen are also very
dangerous to deal with.

What about re-entry? Since he is going up and not sideways re-entry
isn't as much of a problem as going 17,000 MPH and hitting the
atmosphere at an angle. It's up, up, up to basically a stall and falling
back down with parachutes to slow you down. He is going to have an
option to eject and use a conventional backpack parachute.

http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket.html

http://www.rocketguy.com/oldhome.html

NOTE: The Rocket Guy, Brian Walker, will be LIVE guest
on the Art Bell Coast to Coast AM show this
Wed/Thur Night - 27/28 Mar 2002
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From: "nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

Sir Oldham Coupler IV wrote:
>
> THE ROCKET GUY PLAN: (EarthStar One)
> It may be a technical dream but he's just
> crazy enough to push that button...
>
> ...The rocket will be fueled by 90 percent pure
> hydrogen peroxide...

What is it with stupid engineers and their damn
hydrogen peroxide propellant ideas?

As background, the US tried it--it blew up--in
the 1930s. The Japanese tried it during the war
with the same result. The Russians tried it to
propel a torpedo--you've heard of the "Kursk"?

The trouble is that the slightest, eensiest,
tinyest little bit of contamination and

KA-BOOOOOOM!

--
Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001 --
Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter --
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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From: Her Ladyship Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com>

In article <a7rjbe01rrh@drn.newsguy.com>, HellPopeHuey
<hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com> wrote:

> In article <260320021214401256%stang@subgenius.com>, "Rev. Ivan Stang" says...
> >In article <owRn8.6363$ub3.2718@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, Sir
> >Oldham Coupler IV <zcraneees3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> THE ROCKET GUY PLAN: (EarthStar One)
> >> It may be a technical dream but he's just crazy enough to push that button.
>
> >Now this is a guy with balls. For a while more, anyway.
>
> A quote from Saint Dennis Miller:
>
> "I really respect astronauts. I mean, anyone who will strap a roman candle
> filled with liquid hydrogen to their ass, light the fuse and ride it up to
> where there's no air has more balls than a 24-hour Tokyo driving range."
>
> I'll just stay down here and watch, myself.

Pussy. While nu-Monet is right about hydrogen peroxide being VERY
FUCKING DANGEROUS, I'd love to at least VISIT space within my lifetime.
But I'll wait until Rotary Rocket finishes their vehicle. Or until
someone snags the X-Prize, either way.

Her Ladyship Lilith

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

In article <260320022339535896%lilith@ZubJenius.com>, Her Ladyship
Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com> wrote:

> Pussy. While nu-Monet is right about hydrogen peroxide being VERY
> FUCKING DANGEROUS, I'd love to at least VISIT space within my lifetime.
> But I'll wait until Rotary Rocket finishes their vehicle. Or until
> someone snags the X-Prize, either way.

NO WAY for me. Oh, I TALK a good "Build Your Own Ship" and "Earth -- We
Must Get Off" line, but all that's really just to humor "Bob" and Chas
and some of these other space nuts. About half of what I read is hard
sf that takes place in space, and I have thought about space a lot.

And I have decided I don't really want to be there.

Heck, the middle of a LAKE is a dangerous place. There's TWO WHOLE MORE
PLANETS worth of inhospitable, deadly, unbreathable, freezing HELL
right here ON THIS PLANET, called the OCEANS. And I don't even want to
go to THOSE. Well, the EDGES are nice.

Last night I got caught up in a NOVA documentary about Ernest
Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic, that that so scared the shit
out of me vicariously that I decided right then and there, my days of
exploring and even fast driving are OVER. That's easy for me to say
because I'm almost 50 and have a really nice HOME and LEIGE and SLACK.

I'm leery of even walking on a slippery sidewalk without something to
hold on to, so I think I'll leave the thrill seeking Space-Bunji rides
to ya'll REAL SMART KIDS.

I don't even trust the Xists. ESPECIALLY not the Xists. Too late for
me; I paid my $30, I'll be Rupstuured whether I wanna be or not. In
theory though their spaceships are supposed to be more like PLANETS. Or
at least they'll seem that way to us. Whether any of it is real or not
after that is a moot point. For all we know, it's like The Matrix or
Vanilla Sky, we're already just brains in jars imagining all this.
We're no better off than Lonesome Cowboy dave spinning through the
depths of space in his little tuna can thinking he's living a real life
and on a radio show with his human friends Chas and Stang and Wei, but
really they're just part of the computer program that continually
tortures and stimulates his consciousness to keep him from going
completely insane, and thus no longer useful for whatever it is that
Xists use SubGenius brains for. Glorified DICE is my theory.

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From: Her Ladyship Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com>

In article <270320021210400286%stang@subgenius.com>, Rev. Ivan Stang
<stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

> And I have decided I don't really want to be there.

Just be glad they haven't started forcing people at gunpoint to mine
asteroids. But we're getting closer to that point--with carbon
nanotubes, it is growing more likely that we may have our first space
elevator up within the next couple of decades. This will make space
travel very inexpensive, since the biggest expense is in fuel spent
trying to escape this planet's gravity well.

The space elevator will let people send cargo (including pods full of
people) upwards at a leisurely pace and, by the time it gets to the
top, will have enough centripetal force that just LETTING GO will send
the cargo flying clear. With small rocket boosters you could then put a
satellite in orbit, or send people to the moon, and only pay about $200
a pound. Seems pricey, until you realize that we're paying closer to
$10,000 a pound now.

I've always been a space nut, though. I'll take on those damn cosmic
rays and the cold vacuum of space with one spacesuit glove tied behind
my back. They'll get my rocket when they pry it from my cold, dead
launch vehicle.

Her Ladyship Lilith

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From: "Chas. 'Mark' Bee" <c-bee1@uiuc.edu>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
> And I have decided I don't really want to be there.

Me too - I recorded a six-hour tape of the shuttle docking and some
installation, and hearing that big coffee can of a station they're in go
SPANG!... STANG!... TICK!... CLICK!... over and over after the shuttle
was on gave me the screamin' willies. Anything docks, pass into
sunlight, sunset, you name it - BANG! SPANG!

Foot-thick crystal iron armored hulls - I'll go, sure. But this
extruded, stamped tin toy architecture just makes me think of a pop can
with the tab being pulled. No thanks, paddling a cardboard boat around
campus lake was quite enough adventure for me.

> or whatever it is that
> Xists use SubGenius brains for. Glorified DICE is my theory.

Traffic lights. If you're LUCKY. =)
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Subject: Re: The Rocket Guy does a live show
From: prostata@bronze.coil.com (The Stinking Bishop Prostata Cantata MP)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2002 7:48 PM
Message-ID: <38pt7a.64i.ln@news.concourse.com>

In article <270320021210400286%stang@subgenius.com>,
Rev. Ivan Stang <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:
>And I have decided I don't really want to be there.

I can't think of a more interesting place to die.

At least the view is good.

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I have burped, farted, and sneezed at the same time, and I am still
alive. --Dan Povenmire, Los Angeles

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