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From: gumbyltd@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman)
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Subject: Re: INFO: How To Build A UFO - T Pawlicki, Nikola Tesla
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.034937.19664@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 03:49:37 GMT
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>                        An essay in Speculative Engineering
>                                 by T. B. Pawlicki
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>       the complete wheel; this is because  momentum  only  goes up only in
>       proportion to mass but with the square of speed.  Spokes are made of
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>       practical.  Momentum is  half  the  product  of mass  multiplied  by
>       velocity squared.  Therefore,  what  we  need  is a spoke that has a

Hmm ... I thought momentum was mass times velocity:  p=mv
and kinetic energy is mv^2/2.
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