Re: My secret geek shame

In article <ddsrk8$it2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mike Andrews" <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Richard P. Grant <rpg14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Mike Andrews wrote:
>>> Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ssh -l root orbit.anvils2U.com
>>>
>>> I think I'd want at least a 6U or 8U anvil. Gotta get some major
>>> mass in an anvil, and a 2U anvil's a bit on the anemic side.
>
>> E is half M, V squared.
>
>> Just saying.
>
>And the M is important. But M ~= L*W*H*\rho, and an 8U anvil
>weighs about the same as 4 2U anvils.
>
>And then there's the stability-and-CEP question: if I throw an 8U
>anvil with the same initial vector Vbar as a 2U anvil, will they
>follow the same paths? I think not, because the 2U anvil looks more
>like a wing than does the 8U anvil, and it probably will go into a
>flat spin and fly off course more readily.
>
>There's also the "sectional density" problem: does a 2U anvil really
>have what it takes? I think we can grant that a 12U anvil does. What
>is the optimal anvil height, in units of rack-mount space.
>
>Obviously V should be as large as can be obtained, consistent with
>anvil stability, which is mentioned earlier in the article.
>
>More research is needed; I foresee a fruitful[1] research program.

Use more than one at a time: Re-entering Anvils Increasingly Decisive.

>[1] Does Nccyr make rackmount gear?

Yes, the K-Freir be "Enpxvagbfu", but at 1U they're far too thin.

LRP (fin stabilised) is what you need.

Chris (Thor? It'h *Thuppothed* to be....)

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