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Old 21-December-2007, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave J View Post
...aircraft runway on the Moon....now there's something that knots my brain all up!
Maybe it had a thick atmosphere a thousand or so years back...
Why not? Just zip down the runway until your speed is about 1.7 km/s (if I did the math right) and gently pull away from the moon. All without an atmosphere It had better be a pretty smooth runway at that speed, though...
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