Roll on the 20th June

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Graham thanks for your reply  Chet

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A 747 carrying a shuttle won't make it to the 45km altitude needed to get the shuttle off the planet. The big tank will.
The two 'tanks' at the side are not tanks but rocket thrusters using up the fuel of the big main tank.
If there were a way to launch NASA shuttles more cheaply don't you think NASA would've come up with that in the first place?

I'd think their first focus should be to come up with non-exploding space transports for manned space craft, but history has proven that both a manned rocket and a shuttle did that.

NASA is anything but infallible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qeX98tAS8) and is still a gov't agency.

Piggyback launches are, however, probably the wave of the future for other spaceflights, but those machines will be designed especially for that.

I think they should have by now as the piggyback 747 thingy was done back in the 80's and SR-71's have reportedly been skirting atmosphere for a long time.

In another thread started by Stephan I had this argument in a different way as I said beanstalks (elevators to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit) should be used (are are being explored by NASA using carbon nanotube materials).

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@ Fred Flintstone 

Do you understand what he is doing? I still haven't figured out how his poles are arranged. He never answered my question about the drawing I posted. I would think you might want to try making a small section to confirm if you can get it to work before odering a lot of magnets.

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Hey Chet and Dirt
It is good to see Archer likes my ideas as is happy to use them, weather he came up with it himself or went to the site I showed you that only Archer knows but he did show me something I never did and thats setting them up for the loop but then again I wouldn't have thought of it because I know the force it would take to remove that roller from the stator as you couold proberly see from the force he has to use to remove it once it sticks were ever it stops.
Take Care Boys
Graham

That's much more like it 

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Dangler sorry if I appeared snippy last time  Archers seems like it will go round and round  no one has done that Chet