YASID: Moon in a very low orbit.

From	Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	YASID: Moon in a very low orbit.
Date	2015-09-13 01:33 -0600
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Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> wrote:

>Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote in news:20150912a@crcomp.net:
>'Orbital flight'? Or 'reaching orbital height'? There's a huge
>difference in energy and guidance requirements. The latter is
>much easier to do.

But what is "orbital height"?  I remember reading an SF short story
about a guy wondering at the various holes and valleys on a planet he
was exploring (Mars?) and realizing just in time that a super-dense
moon was orbiting rather low.

I think of it as a Niven, but probably because I'm confusing it with
There Is A Tide, where the moon was at normal height -- whfg n ovg
qrafre guna hfhny.

(Bs pbhefr, jr abj ernyvmr gung lbh pna'g trg fhpu n qrafr bowrpg
jvgubhg flagurgvp zrnaf, juvpu vf jul gur "Syrrg bs Jbeyqf" ergpba bs
Xabja Fcnpr znqr gur "Gurer vf n Zbba" n qryvorengr genc.

Spoilers for There is a Tide and a much more recent Niven
collaboration above)
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

Thread

Red Thunder, here we come! Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2015-09-11 21:01 -0700
  Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-09-12 17:01 +0000
    Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 15:24 -0500
      Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-09-12 22:31 +0000
        Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 21:43 -0500
      YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-09-13 01:33 -0600
        Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-09-13 03:51 -0400
          Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2015-09-20 23:23 +0000
            Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 19:56 -0500
              Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-20 20:18 -0700
              Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2015-09-22 05:46 +0000
                Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 04:04 -0400
        Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 10:31 -0500
          Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-09-13 19:41 +0100
            Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 21:15 -0500
              Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 06:05 -0400
                Re: YASID: Moon in a very low orbit. Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-09-14 18:47 -0700
          Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-13 21:49 -0700
            Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-09-14 10:21 -0600
              Re: YASID: Moon in a very low orbit. nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-09-14 20:26 +0000
  Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-09-14 11:43 +0800
    Re: Red Thunder, here we come! "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 06:16 -0400
      Re: Red Thunder, here we come! "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-14 06:24 -0400

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