An Ex Rocket Man's Take On It

The ravings of a trained mind.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Aquaculture Habitat Lake for Mars

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Corresponding with other space travel enthusiasts on the New Mars forums, I have run across the idea of using the hydrostatic pressure of w...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

“Icecrete”, a Substitute for Concrete as a Building Material on Other (Colder) Worlds

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I’ve been considering what might be a good substitute for concrete, as a structural material, for use on places like Mars, the moon, and...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

On Iran and the Bomb

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I hear a drumbeat for war with Iran over its acquisition of nuclear weapons. This comes from Israel, several other countries, and our ow...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Iran, Oil, and Economies

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What follows is an analysis of real data. It is very, very hard to argue with measured numbers, and with historical facts. This explains...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Student Pulsejet a Hit at EAA Meeting

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At TSTC, we have a welding student, Justin Friend, who has built some valveless pulset engines for a personal hobby. I have already post...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Launch Cost Data

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I took a look around on the internet, visiting various company and industry watchdog sites, looking for payloads deliverable to low earth ...
Monday, January 2, 2012

On Somali Pirates: "I Told You So"

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From an article by Neal Ungerleider, on MSNBC.msn.com, 2 January 2012 “Commercial shipping is one of the most cutthroat industries in the ...
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Gary Johnson
McGregor, Texas, United States
GW had a 20 year career in aerospace defense new product engineering, followed by a 20 year career in mostly teaching, with a little civil engineering and aviation work. He is now retired on a small farm in central Texas, occasionally building and selling cactus eradication tools, available for consulting, and offering a self-published book on ramjet propulsion. He has posted a lot of technical articles on this site, a catalog of which is in the post "Lists of Some Articles By Topic Area", dated 21 October 2021. For information about the ramjet book, see "GW's Ramjet Book Is Now Available!", posted 12 February 2024. Use the blog archive gadget as a navigation tool to find these quickly. He is also developing course materials for teaching or self-teaching in aerothermodynamics, and in the sizing of vehicles for space missions.
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