GRGR(17) Hauptstufe! (380.18)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

I get it, rj.  I was responding to a technical question about rockets,
not the rather obvious points regarding the way Slothrop's
understanding of his own majestical rocketude is related to the
structure GR.  

Mark

--- rj <rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> > I'm no rocket scientist (as I've demonstrated to all on several
> > occasions) but, I nevertheless venture, brennschluss would not be
> at
> > apogee.
> 
> Yes, we've established that. Several times now. Apogee is at apogee,
> and
> at the very apogee of the text Slothrop yells "Hauptstafe!" and
> launches
> himself into public as the Rocket, man. Get it? 
> 
> Brenschluss is irrelevant anyway in terms of the parabolic arc traced
> by
> the projectile. Fuel and acceleration and momentum will only provide
> height and distance. And human control went out of the equation way
> back
> in the lab (as Frank'n'furter said to Janet, heh heh.) The parabola
> will
> always be the same. Gravity's rainbow. And 380.18 is where it
> happens,
> the peak, the change from ascent to descent.
> 
> best
> 
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