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From: ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: I want to go to orbit...
Message-ID: <22969@teda.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 91 15:08:02 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.174621.3905@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar25.183132.15691@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Mar25.183132.15691@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-In article <1991Mar25.174621.3905@cs.mcgill.ca> msdos@cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) writes:
->	What are the steps in order to build a reliable space-shuttle like
->spaceship in order to send myself to orbit for the summer holidays?
-
-First you need to locate a source of dilithium crystals.  You're not going
-to get off the ground without them.

That won't help.  Dilithium crystals are used for energy conversion in
warp drives.  You need either thrusters or low impulse drives until you
are well outside a planet's atmosphere...
/mike (visiting from the Cochrane Institure :-)



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