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Re: Mirrors (first draft)
- To: Brian Mansur <bmansur@oc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Mirrors (first draft)
- From: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:55:24 -0500
- Cc: Brian Mansur <bmansur@oc.edu>, kgstar <kgstar@most.fw.hac.com>, David <David@InterWorld.com>, hous0042 <hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu>, jim <jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu>, KellySt <KellySt@aol.com>, lparker <lparker@destin.gulfnet.com>, rddesign <rddesign@wolfenet.com>, Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>, "T.L.G.vanderLinden" <T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl>, zkulpa <zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl>
At 10:57 AM 3/5/96, Brian Mansur wrote:
>Brian 10:50 AM CT 3/5/96,
>
>Thanks for the comments. I'll try to reply to them in a day or two (I'll be
>busy for the rest of this week on School Club activities and homework). But
>here's a little something.
>
>[much discussion deleted]
>
>>Brian
>>So much for bolstering my hybid design. By the way. From now on I'm going
>>to officially call it an ARGOSY class starship. Since I'll probably have
>>nothing better to do over spring break (like relaxing?), I'll see if I can
>>improve my design. Expect to see a lot of ideas borrowed from the Explorer
>>design. I should at least be able to give the group a decent description
>>along with a critic of the problems associated with the thing. Oh, and a
>>long list of assumptions as well.
>
>>Kelly
>>Great! I was hoping we'ld get a fleet of compeating ship designs! We can
>>try to cross link our pages when they are uploaded by Dave.
>
>>Let me know if you want copies or help.
>
>Brian
>A word of warning is that I still have to work with BMP. I'm afraid that I
>wasn't able to download the GIF program you gave me so all I can do for now
>is send bit demons. I can do some decent drawings with the bit however and
>I will over the break. I was wondering if you could compress them and send
>them on to the rest of the group so that their hard drives don't explode.
I'm not sure I can handel BMP files. I'm sure I didn't send you a program
given that my stuff is all Macintosh, and it sound like you are an IBMer.
>Glad to hear that you're enthusiastic about the idea. I'm beginning to see
>already that much of the ARGOSY design will be vague, however. It figure
>that it will at least have a similar summary as see in my Hybrid first draft
>plus troubleshooting points.
>
>By the way, something I also plan to get to is an e-mail discussing the
>decel problems with the EXPLORER. Its a great idea if drag can be overcome
>with minimal power losses. Loading the decel/reacel track is also a pain.
Stoping these things is a nightmare! We can't carry enough fuel (unless
the ships get EXTREEAME), and we can't beam it, because the beam only
pushes one way.
Perhaps we're using these beams wrong? hummm.
Kelly
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