Originally Posted by Randy

True but I already have the Bull Pup amd it's cheaper. And the far side of the field is only about 900 feet. I figure that's not even half my range on an E30 launched sideways.

Originally Posted by Tau Zero

So if an *actual* Tau Zero can exceed the speed of light... (calculating on paper, then switching to fingers and toes...) --I might be able to outrun most of the other rocket(ship)s.

Cheers,

Originally Posted by luke strawwalker

That could be interesting... I don't think we need the "disintegration chambers" though...

As for launching old ICBM's from their silos at the "enemy" country with ball bearings to create meteor displays, that would create more fireworks than one would probably want... IE a full retaliatory strike, as the enemies defenses would detect it as a full scale attack! Plus, even if it was all pre-arranged to prevent accidentally triggering Armageddon, there's still the issue of all the spent missile stages crashing into the areas north of the missile silos on their trajectories... sorta like when I went to the Minuteman silo they converted into a museum in South Dakota... they pulled the 70-odd ton concrete silo door back into "maintenance position" and installed a glass cover over the silo in its place... you can lean over it and put your face on the glass and the missile RV is about 3-4 feet below the glass, and see all the way to the bottom of the silo. The retired missile launch guy who was leading the tour told about what would happen at launch-- the door was pushed off the silo by rocket motors-- it'd slide along short tracks, but the rocket motors were powerful enough that they basically THREW the door about 70-100 yards, which would put it right through the security storm fence... someone asked what would happen if someone were outside the fence and got hit by it... "Well, they'd die 30 minutes before everbody else, because once these things are launched, that's it... the balloon has gone up and there's no stopping it... it's all over!" I'm sure the North Dakotans and Montana folks, along with the Canadians, would have been thrilled to have spent ICBM first stages raining down on their houses and backyards... course they wouldn't have but a matter of minutes to be upset about it before the Russian fireworks arrived... Course back in the day, with the Titan II's stationed at Little Rock, Wichita, and Pima, those first stages and rocket engines raining down in the countryside and in places like St. Louis, Flagstaff, Des Moines, and Chicago, would probably have PO'd a few people... course like I said, in about 20 minutes after they crashed it wouldn't really matter much...

Later! OL JR

Originally Posted by Cohetero-negro

Brain,

I'm afraid I don't have counterpart