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  Bad Weather Conditions? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 14:44 -0700
    Re: Bad Weather Conditions? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 15:08 -0700
    Re: Bad Weather Conditions? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-06 21:08 -0500

#498282 — Bad Weather Conditions?

NASA delays Flying Saucer test flight again due to bad weather conditions
http://www.pulseheadlines.com/nasa-delays-flying-saucer-test-flight-due-bad-weather-conditions/1229/




How come they didn't call it "climate change", or "global warming"????


Flying saucers are not affected by...Bad Weather Conditions.




They go round and round and cut through the clouds...


Does anybody here know how to fly this nasa flying saucer?

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#498288

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> NASA delays Flying Saucer test flight again due to bad weather conditions
> http://www.pulseheadlines.com/nasa-delays-flying-saucer-test-flight-due-bad-weather-conditions/1229/
> 
> How come they didn't call it "climate change", or "global warming"????
> 
> Flying saucers are not affected by...Bad Weather Conditions.
> 
> They go round and round and cut through the clouds...
> 
> Does anybody here know how to fly this nasa flying saucer?



I suspect NASA are "climate change", or "global warming" deniers.


When the 'scientific community' resorts to words like
bad-weather-conditions, you know something is wrong among them...

they don't seem to agree.



It should read:
nasa-delays-flying-saucer-test-flight-global-warming-conditions/

or :nasa-delays-flying-saucer-test-flight-due-to-climate-change/




Bad Weather Conditions???? It sounds....normal.



I'm guessing there are those of the 'scientific community' that are sick
and tired of... "climate change", and "global warming".

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#498328

On 6/6/15 4:44 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> Flying saucers are not affected by...Bad Weather Conditions.
> They go round and round and cut through the clouds...


   No, NASA Is Not Launching a Flying Saucer
> http://time.com/2857102/nasa-flying-saucer/

> Never mind what you’ve been hearing, NASA is not launching a flying
> saucer in Hawaii soon. You could be forgiven for thinking that,
> because NASA has been busy telling anyone who will listen that yes,
> it is launching a flying saucer in Hawaii soon. That’s a shame,
> because what’s really going on is deeply cool without the
> oversimplifying hype.

> The LDSD, in fairness, does look flying saucer-ish. It’s a 20 ft. (6
> m) diameter dish that is part hard shell and part inflatable bladder.
> A massive balloon (“big enough to fill the Rose Bowl,” says project
> manager Mark Adler) will lift the vehicle to an altitude of almost 23
> miles (37 km). At that point the balloon will be jettisoned and a
> rocket motor will kick in, carrying the LDSD to a peak altitude of 34
> miles up (54 km), or about the upper limit of the stratosphere.
>
> “The thickness of the air up there simulates the atmosphere of Mars,”
> says Adler. And that’s the whole point.
>
> Once the rocket burns out, the vehicle will arc over and begin
> plunging toward the ground. At that point it will be moving at Mach
> 4, or about 3,000 mph. As it enters thicker air, its speed will slow
> slightly. Until that point, the inflatable bladder will have been
> empty, but at Mach 3.8 it will fill with gas, creating a sort of
> doughnut surrounding the hard shell which will increase its overall
> diameter from about 13 ft. (4 m) to its full 20 ft. That drag will
> cut the descent speed nearly in half, slow enough for a massive
> parachute—110 ft (33.5 m) across—to open safely. About 45 minutes
> later, the vehicle will splash down in the Pacific—an elegant dress
> rehearsal for a real Mars landing except, of course, for the landing
> in water part.
>


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