In article <46591949$0$27157$742ec2ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, dakidd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> In article <slrnf5i1n6.914.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David DeLaney) wrote:
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>
> Yeah, I guess that COULD be a major malfunction, couldn't it? Hadn't
> really considered the concept of the energy going all over the place in
> the form of heat, versus being relatively localized.
>
> Either way, there's at least the potential for the end of life as we
> know it...
>
> However, I'm left pondering -
>
> Just how hot is "hot"? For grins-and-giggles, let's assume that these
> quarter-mile steel balls the OP tossed out here for us are coming in at
> "fell out of orbit" speeds (as opposed to "launched at some god-awful
>
For that matter, how DENSE are these steel balls? Are they solid?
Honeycomb? Hollow? If the latter, how thick is the shell? And what's
inside?
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