Re: GR translation: two lobes symmetrical about the rocket’s intended azimuth

[David Morris]

OK, but please elaborate.  Would the two lobes be the space to either side
of the rocket's trajectory?

On Monday, June 18, 2012, Prashant Kumar wrote:

> The azimuthal axis splits a sphere in half, depending on whether you take
> a parallel or transverse cut. Hence two lobes.
>
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Azimuth-Altitude_schemati.svg<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Azimuth-Altitude_schematic.svg>
>
> This ties in with the three meanings of "ab-hauen"
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abhauen
>
> On 18 June 2012 23:31, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> "two lobes symmetrical about the rocket’s intended azimuth."
>>
>> I think the two lobes are the two sides of the rockets trajectory,
>> upwar and downward.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> > P209.27-210.4   Sir Stephen introduces himself, freckles roused by the
>> > sun, eying the comic book curiously. “I gather this isn’t a study
>> > period.”
>> > “Is he cleared?”
>> > “He’s cleared,” Katje smiling/shrugging at Dodson-Truck.
>> > “Taking a break from that Telefunken radio control. That ‘Hawaii I.’
>> > You know anything about that?”
>> > “Only enough to wonder where they got the name from.”
>> > “The name?”
>> > “There’s a poetry to it, engineer’s poetry . . . it suggests Haverie—
>> > average, you know—certainly you have the two lobes, don’t you,
>> > symmetrical about the rocket’s intended azimuth . . . hauen, too—
>> > smashing someone with a hoe or a club . . .” off on a voyage of his
>> > own here, smiling at no one in particular, bringing in the popular
>> > wartime expression ab-hauen, quarterstaff technique, peasant humor,
>> > phallic comedy dating back to the ancient Greeks. . . . Slothrop’s
>> > first impulse is to get back to what that Plas is into, but something
>> > about the man, despite obvious membership in the plot, keeps him
>> > listening . . . an innocence, maybe a try at being friendly in the
>> > only way he has available, sharing what engages and runs him, a love
>> > for the Word.
>> >
>> > What are these "two lobes"?  Two halves of the rocket, the rocket's
>> > trajectory, or something else?
>>
>
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