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From: fred@inuxc.UUCP (Fred Mendenhall)
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Subject: Max G?
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 10:15:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 10:15:23 1984
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I want to thank both Greg from MIT and Dani Eder from
Boeing Aerospace for their informative articles on Mass
Drivers.

I found it interesting that Greg was talking about a 1000g
7.8 km driver and Dani was interested in a 20 km 92g driver.
I'm assuming the difference is because Greg want to throw raw
materials, i.e. steel,silicon,water, into space where Dani
wants to send essentially the final stage of a more traditional
rocket vehicle into space.

That brings up an interesting question that several people have
asked. What is the max acceleration you would want a traditional
rocket-liquid fuel-payload vehicle to experience? I would have thought
100g would be too high, but apparently that's not true.

Anybody out there want to tackle that question?

					Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
					
					Fred Mendenhall