Re: Prediction - something big today

In article <SJednZKRTuQdQO_ZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, George wrote:
Wasn't one of Goddard's propellant mixes kerosene and nitrous?
Or possibly kerosine and dinitrogen tetroxide (lovely stuff!)

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Tue, 23 May 2006 09:29 +0100, but posted later.

I don't know. If it was, that would explain why he didn't get as far along
as the Germans - too much experimenting with ways to get high off the
stuff). :-)

I appear to have been wrong - Goddard was (mostly) working with LOX/
kerosene. However N2O4 is commonly used as a component in hypergolic mixtures
(ones where the components ignite on mixing, requiring no ignition
pyrotechnics) with either hydrazine, methyl hydrazine, or dimethyl hydrazine.

I suppose I'd better check the mail now for any evidence of Polina
having predicted the NBO (Next Big One) ... Nope, nothing more than a 5.0 in
Baja California.

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Wed, 24 May 2006 08:14 +0100, but posted later.

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