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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

The ERV is finally submitted.

Yes, the Earth Return Vehicle design that lent its name to this blog has been sent in as a contest submission with The Mars Society. I spent my running on four hours sleep solving last minute math problems.
If you ever have seen The Chicken Lover episode of South Park, you may remember how Officer BarBrady had to overcome dyslexia to solve a crime, only to find out the crime was committed by someone trying to help him learn to read. The fundamentally clueless look BarBrady gave every time he had to view a book is much like me with the math spreadsheets, trying to overcome issues of chemistry, density, momentum, thrust, mass, geometry, burn rates, and volume. By the end I was able to fly across multiple pages cranking out revised numbers every five minutes. Impressive as that sounds, keep in mind these last minute recompilations were the result of missing things that I’ve known about for years, but somehow got lost or a placeholder number was never replaced. The result is basically summarized as follows: write, write, write, whaaaa? Crap!!! Rocket math, rocket math, rocket math, crap!, more rocket math, forty second depressed stare at monitor, math math math math pure fiction on what materials weigh, positive number!, recalculate, rewrite, update tables in essay, write write write repeat.

In short, it made it to the post office with fifteen minutes to spare today. I would feel like celebrating if I wasn’t feeling like the crew of Apollo 13.

By the way, I got honorable mention in a Mars Society essay contest last year, which means I get roughly $100 worth of stuff and an invitation to read it at the banquet in August. Knowing that got me through this weekend. I'll post the essay later.

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* When accessing Millennium Plus via the Internet using any standard browser, you send out a signal. That signal then travels to the cell phone tower nearest your current location.

* Microburst technology operates on existing cellular networks to send and receive data packets, tapping into unused channels on the back side of standard cell frequencies.

* The GPS satellites then locate and communicate with the Millennium Plus transceiver on board your vehicle, which exchanges information on location and speed, as well as executing any commands you've sent.

* The cell towers then relay the signal back to you via the exact means by which it was sent.

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