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Juumanistra replied to the thread Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age.Just another argument for NASA's building a better delta-winged, spaceplane-shaped mouse trap. The emoji of someone who knows exactly...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age.A tragedy, as I love my nearly lenticular little flapjack. ...big flapjack? 15'-diameter of pancake re-entry goodness. The only thing...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread In the EU, in parallel with the euro, the creation of the currencies of the Euroregions is permitted.The niche would be for nations with similar economic profiles and fiscal outlooks. One of the Euro's biggest issues has been imposing a...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread WI: The space program wasn't given to the NACA?.It would have been as suited as anyone, given the intense newness of everything related to space rocketry. An example would be Dr...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread WI: The space program wasn't given to the NACA?.NASA wasn't created until mid-1958. The initial solution in the aftermath of Sputnik had been ARPA, which struggled from its birth to...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster.Hey, the H3's still flying, so the Delta family is still going strong! H3 has about much in common with the N-I as the Delta IV Heavy...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread British and commonwealth rocket development.Don't most pacts between nations involving compartmentalized state secrets start as just that, agreements between the principals? And...
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Or a generation late, if the 90s had gone slightly different. (Or it's possible there'd been more focus on recovery and reuse in the... -
Juumanistra replied to the thread British and commonwealth rocket development.Oh, it's possible, but that applies to a great many things. But yes, Black Prince and a new(-ish) mash-up of stuff from the Anglo-French...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread British and commonwealth rocket development.I think this rather misstates the nature of Anglo-American atomic cooperation. The U.S. and U.K. were to be equals in the sharing of...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?.Have you considered, per chance, applying to work at North American Rockwell? They've got this idea -- Star-Raker -- that needs exactly...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread British and commonwealth rocket development.I dug out my copy of A Vertical Empire in light of this thread, to refresh my own half-remembered thoughts. I was specifically looking...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?.I've recently been rereading A Vertical Empire, and given how bomberphilic some of the Civil Service was, it might have hit the desk of...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread WI: The General Dynamics F-111 is still born?.I think it's important to nail down exacting what's being asked here. As there's really two very, very different PoDs that this can...
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Juumanistra replied to the thread USSR Doesn't Drop Deep Battle..No, he should come back as a zombie, so that Stalin has to purge Triandafilov extra hard during the Great Purge.