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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 02:55 PM Original message |
Solar powered flight - Test flight scheduled for April 2009 |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. It only carries one person, the pilot. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Moving a person... |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. The same could be said for the Wright Brother's aircraft, but |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Yes but I am highly doubtful that this could scale up to anything commercially viable. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yes but the same could be said about the Wright Brothers plane. |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. No. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I'm not an engineer or physicist either, but I believe we're just scratching the surface |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. Here comes the sun, with apologies to George Harrison. |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. On solar power around the world - this was sort of done before, in a balloon. nt |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. Does India give out student loans? |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I guess --- as long as you come here to study |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. no I was curious about the cost of education there |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. From what I know .. most parents fund the education which is not very expensive |
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Terran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. Commercial flight is largely doomed without something like this. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-17-08 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
13. We're not behind. We already flew the world's first solar plane! |
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