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[Horn]

By "ejection", do you mean ejected from Earths gravitational pull?

If so, all the fuel it ever had wouldn't be enough to do that.

You're leaving out centrifugal force.

[Joe King]

You're leaving out centrifugal force.

How exactly are you going to harness said "force"?

[Horn]

How exactly are you going to harness said "force"?

You're getting too E-motional, Joe

Your total mass is being retained, in a re preserved and pre-harnessed stasis.




http://astrologyexplored.net/home/?p=2165

[Joe King]

You said centrifugal force. Not the Force. lol

It takes a lot of fuel to "eject" something beyond Earths gravitational influence to the point of it not falling back down here to us. More fuel than it went up there with.

[Horn]

You said centrifugal force. Not the Force. lol

It takes a lot of fuel to "eject" something beyond Earths gravitational influence to the point of it not falling back down here to us. More fuel than it went up there with.

Joe, your so wrong my computational sensors are failing to compute your theory.

Your body must be doing all the motions, because your head isn't glued on.

A body moving at 5km/s has some force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed

[Joe King]

Try not to confuse a paltry orbital velocity of 5km/s with escape velocity, which requires 11.2km/s

Which by any measure is considerably faster.

[Horn]

Try not to confuse a paltry orbital velocity of 5km/s with escape velocity, which requires 11.2km/s

Which by any measure is considerably faster.

Ahh , so now we cut our required velocity in half, add (or subtract) from that the shedded weight of the fuel and casing needed to get there.

[Horn]

After my cost analysis, I've decided its easier to just let it crash onto Joe's house..

http://astrologyexplored.net/home/?p=2165

“Getting there was only half the fun,” says March 2011 issue of Scientific American. Because of Mercury’s proximity to the sun’s gravitational field, a direct flight to Mercury was not possible. The craft could not slow enough to be captured by Mercury’s atmosphere. To get to Mercury required one flyby of earth, two of Venus and three of Mercury itself. Each flyby slowed the craft so at the last pass it could be caught by Mercury’s gravity. The entire trip took 6 1/2 years.

[Joe King]

Still gotta have enough fuel to begin with to get it out of the Earths gravitational pull the first time.

Ask yourself this. Had they known there was a hole in the wing that would doom the craft, why couldn't Columbia have simply gone to the ISS to await help?
Answer that question and you will have the answer to your question.

[Horn]

The answer is simple, its the accountant's fault.

You probably think it was the Sun's gravitational force as the reason behind the MESSENGER's 6-1/2 year flight plan in the aforementioned article, don't you?

You either do, or you don't.

There is no try in the ex-centrifugal force, padwan.