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    More things to go wrong on space tourism flights

    http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rocket_Plane_Roulette_999.html (Jeffrey Bell) "There were also frequent aborts in which the rocketplane was not dropped from its carrier aircraft due to technical defects, and a lesser number where planned flights were cancelled on the ground. In the X-15...
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    Plenty of them are millionaires. And a few are billionaires. (Jeffrey Bell) "And at this very time of official stagnation, a variety of private firms have finally found a business model that is both within the financial capacity of private capital and attractive to the general public...
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    http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rocket_Plane_Roulette_999.html Rocket Plane Roulette
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    Explain to me how it makes the least bit of sense to expose yourself to the legal liabilities from attorneys representing the families and business partners of dead millionaires because you decided to ignore the last 50 years of escape system development and build a Mach 3 spaceplane that...
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    Tell that to the F-15 pilot who lost his weapons officer in an 800 mph ejection and barely survived himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HecyxhXDepU&feature=related
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    What makes you think you know anything? You're not even out of college and in the first place aren't even studying the technologies (aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, airframe construction, etc) relevant to what we're doing.
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    More things to go wrong on space tourism flights

    There are currently FIVE land speed record projects with a stated goal of 1,000 mph. http://www.zinio.com/pages/RacecarEngineering/January2012/416200691/pg-28 The Bullet Project's Silver Bullet RV-1 is featured in the January issue of Racecar Engineering.
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    http://www.ejectionsite.com/x15seat.htm The X-15 ejection seat was rated up to 120,000 feet altitude and Mach 4 (that's at least a full Mach number faster than the speeds planned for SpaceShipTwo).
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    The technology for eliminating flail injuries is nothing new. Encapsulated ejection seats are nothing new either. The only question is designers and engineers getting so complacent they think they don't need it.
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    Despite originating in aerospace medicine, centrifuges work just as well in g-force training for ground vehicles as in air and space vehicles. How do I know this? REAL EXPERIENCE IN THE REAL WORLD. Twenty years ago I did the design calculations for a centrifuge Art Arfons built during his last...
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    True
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    In broad terms we are in agreement. However, defining the seat as solely the seat back and bottom, you do not want the occupant to still be decelerating when the seat has already stopped. The resulting collision between the occupant and the seat can itself generate a secondary g-spike. This is...
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    Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking | The Creativity Post "8. Trust your instincts. Don't allow yourself to get discouraged. Albert Einstein was expelled from school because his attitude had a negative effect on serious students; he failed his university...
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    More things to go wrong on space tourism flights

    Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking | The Creativity Post "7. Expect the experts to be negative. The more expert and specialized a person becomes, the more their mindset becomes narrowed and the more fixated they become on confirming what they believe to be...
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    SEATS DON'T DISSIPATE ENERGY. CRUSH SPACE dissipates energy. Deformation can't happen if there is no CRUSH SPACE. G-forces are attenuated by spreading them out over time. Crush space provides the distance for this to happen. Deformation provides the time for this to happen.
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    The purpose of John Stapp's famous 632 mph rocket sled run was to determine whether a human being could survive the g-forces sustained during ejection from an airplane at supersonic speed. Tell me again how there is no relationship between the g-forces in ground vehicles and aircraft?
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    WRONG. A Mercury astronaut typically experienced 7g during re-entry. The driver of a Top Fuel or jet dragster also sees 7g during deceleration. The only difference is due to the higher speed a Mercury astronaut saw 7g longer due to the length of time it took for speed to bleed off.
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    http://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/voshell/gforce.pdf In 2001, an Indy car race had to be canceled because the cars were not only continuously at 5g (higher than what was normally seen in the space shuttle) but sustaining that high g for longer periods than what can be maintained in a jet fighter...
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    More things to go wrong on space tourism flights

    http://nadcmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Image008.jpg http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/mercury/resized-jpg/p69.jpg http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/mercury/resized-jpg/p68.jpg http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/mercury/ch06.htm Contour couches used in Mercury capsules. The principle of a...
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    http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/sicherheitscockpit-e.html A concise explanation of how g-forces are attenuated in an aircraft crash with a high vertical velocity.
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