GRGR(17) Hauptstufe (380.18)

[David Morris]

>From: Jeremy Osner <
>
>This was discussed a while back: until Brennschluss, the rocket's flight is
>(ideally) a straight line; at the point of Brennschluss its flight path 
>becomes
>(again ideally) a parabola (to which the line is tangiential). The middle 
>of the
>flight, i.e. the top of the parabola, comes a good deal later; at that 
>point the
>tangent to the path is horizontal. Interesting things about these two 
>moments;
>but I think of the midpoint as "the zero". Maybe Pynchon does not.
>

The Zero may be the apex of the arc or the cutt-off of fuel.  Either way it 
is a threshhold.  Midpoint, schmidpoint.  The flight path may be divided 
according to many rulers: vertical, horizotal, temporal, intentional.  No 
need to quibble.

David Morris
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