> [Doug Jones is] ...a little slow on the uptake tonight, but I looked up the
> specific
> strengths entry in a materials handbook today- to my (not so great)
> surprise, it's listed as a characteristic length, due to a factor of g...
> ... perverse as quoting Isp in seconds... yet another legacy of American
> Provincial units.
Ja, but thats OK, we can still convert. 100 km specific strength in
a 9.8 m/sec^2 field converts to about... 1 km^2 per sec^2? Let
me punch it up in my spreadsheet, see if we are in space cable territory:
nope. {8-[ We need two orders of magnitude higher specific strength. spike
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