If you think that it would be funny under the usual circumstances, you
should hear my idea for what to do if the burn lasts too long: jettison the
rockets. :-D

Can you immagine 30 or so POWERFUL rocket engines flying off with no
stabilization!!

Sean

At 12:56 AM 10/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> > 5G eh That aint no tinny rocket in my book do the sums for a typical
>train
>> > of 30 carrages each with 30 000Kg and an engine of 150 000
>> >
>>
>>
>Why do you think I want to buy some when the project gets canned :)
>
> You'd have to do it per car, of course, if you put all that on the front,
> the rest would derail. Messy.
>
> That's a whole lotta newtons though, even for one car's worth.
> Actually, you could control the thrust curve fairly well by how the grain
>is
> cored.
>
> It would be really amusing if the rockets went off with load of pigs
>instead
> of a load of steel! That would be "When pigs fly!".. Backwards!
>
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