Saturn V rocket needed to be 266 times bigger.

[Bob B.]

moonman said:

The Delta Rocket is the rocket of the future.

Lockheed Martin might tend to disagree.

[sts60]

The Delta Rocket is the rocket of the future.

Which Delta? There's more than one version. But of course you had no idea. You just Googled around and found a pretty picture and fancied that you knew something.

Color me unimpressed.

They will be using it to launch future Shuttles, the new age shuttles.

Wrong. The Ares I will be used to launch the CEV into orbit.

However, it's not inconceivable a decision could be made to man-rate the Delta IV. Or the Atlas V. Or the Ariane V. Any such effort would be very expensive.

[sts60]

I forgot to ask: don't you ever get embarrassed by spouting nonsense about subjects of which you are totally ignorant?

[Moon Man]

No.

My comments always come through in the future.

Looks Like the Detla Really Ready Heavy will get the call for future flights.

[frenat]

moonman said:

No.

My comments always come through in the future.

Looks Like the Detla Really Ready Heavy will get the call for future flights.

Really? Because we have yet to see that happen.

[hplasm]

I have seen the future!
The 'Detla Really Ready Heavy' is sooo great- unfortunately at launch, it melted the pad and sank into the ground under it's own weight. Shame, really.

[brotherofthemoon]

moonman said:

Detla Really Ready Heavy

Sounds like the name of a sandwich.

[BertL]

You rely too much on fortune tellers.

[Obviousman]

tanalia said:

Code Breakers - The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, edited by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp (officials from Bletchley Park):

There was a story, which can still be heard from time to time, that it was known that Coventry was to be the target for a devastating raid, and that Churchill forbade any special precautions for fear of giving away the all important secret that we were reading the Enigma. What Churchill would have done had he been confronted with this terrible dilemma I have, of course, no idea. But it so happens that we did not know the target for that night until it was too late; in fact, as I remember, we were expecting a very heavy raid on London.

and

Battle of Wits - The complete story of codebreaking in World War II, by Stephen Budiansky:

The false but still repeated story that Churchill knew in advance of the devastating raid on Coventry planned for the night of November 14, 1940 ... credits Enigma intelligence with far more than it was providing at the time. ... The intelligence that was available to Churchill on the fourteenth, particularaly beam bearings detected late in the day, convinced him that London was indeed the target, and he even canceled a planned trip out of town, explaining to an aide when he arrived back at Downing Street that he was not going to spend a peaceful evening in the country while the metropolis was under attack. Churchill was actually scanning the skies impatiently from the roof of the Air Ministry, waiting for the German bombers to appear, when the attack on Coventry began a hundred miles away.

I looked up the details again, and you were quite correct; I misremembered the event.

The Coventry raid was the first in an operation called Moonlight Sonata. Modified Avro Ansons went out looking for the X-Gerat navigation beam that would tell them what the target was, but they had difficulty in getting an accurate direction. They said that the raid would be somewhere in the Midlands. KG100, a pathfinder unit, lead the raid. The Enigma / ULTRA message which had the target details wasn't broken until the following morning, after the raid had occurred.

[sts60]

No.

That's apparent.

My comments always come through in the future.

Your comments are wrong in the present, and won't get any more true in the future. You have no grasp of anything at all to do with spaceflight.

Looks Like the Detla Really Ready Heavy will get the call for future flights.

Meaningless, as well as sophomoric. You may continue this drivel if it amuses you, but I'm through indulging you.

[Grand Lunar]

moonman said:

The Delta Rocket is the rocket of the future. They will be using it to launch future Shuttles, the new age shuttles.

What shuttles would that be?

Appearently, you never heard of the CEV and the Ares 1.

[scooter]

your Delta RR Heavy has flown once and had some issues. They will fix them, and it will go on to have a good run of launches...it's a fine rocket. Now, whether it is ever used for manned missions is up to those with more money and expertise than us.
What do you know of the new ELVs, including the Atlas V (my fav, the 552 of New Horizon fame, now THAT's a rocket!!). They are an interesting step towards "assembly line" launching services.

[gillianren]

moonman said:

The Holocaust did not kill as many as your history books claim; just like the mass graves Iraq allegedly had; they don't exist.

Where did my relatives go if those mass graves don't exist? And, sadly, I must agree with you on one point. The Holocaust didn't kill as many people as the average history book claims. It killed more. They tend to claim the 6 million figure, which is just Jews; it leaves out entirely the 6 1/2 million Gentiles, including my grandmother's half-siblings and their children, who also died.

If the Holocaust was so bad then why did America hire so many WW11 war criminals for there Space program..?

Politics, which is yet another thing you've been shown to lack understanding in.

Canada declared war on Japan right after Pearl Harbour while America waited until the next day to declare war. Why the wait..?

Probably because of the logistics of getting Congress in session on a Sunday in December.

[BertL]

Next thing we know he'll be claiming WW2 was a hoax as well.

[Sticks]

bertls said:

Next thing we know he'll be claiming WW2 was a hoax as well.

You mean it wasn't