RocketMan,
When you didn't answer my question from #8305 today, I just assumed your were too busy "fine tuning" in the engineroom. After I read you had left to go sailing, I went down to the engineroom and did some snooping around. I finally found the owner's manual for the strap-on rocket boosters in the stewardess closet (I won't even try to imagine how it got there).
Anyway, after leafing through the manual, I was glad to find that ACMME actually stands for "Anti-Clinging-MM Equipment" and is the name of the company that produces general purpose products for ridding OTC/BB companies of putrid, pesky market makers.
On page 9, the manual had a picture from the final sequence of "Alien," where the creature, that bears such a striking resemblance to MMs, has been ejected from Sigourney Weaver's rocket, but is still clinging to the rocket engine cones, until Sigourney pounds her fist down on that big red button (like the one on Byron's command console) and... well, I think most people recall what happened--essentially the same thing that is about to happen to DGIV's MMs.
So I apologize for the question about whether you had done a background check on the manufacturer since, of course, you had. It's obvious now you deliberately selected the finest quality product for the vital job you have to (get to) do tomorrow.
As for the elastic straps--well, the user manual states the design material enables the boosters to initiate the jump before the main rocket engines kick in, so the overall force is multiplied many times over, and the end result--which is essentially the same result to which the Alien was an eye-witness--will be guaranteed. (There were actually some mathematical, rubber-band equations that empirically prove the designers weren't just whistling "Dixie", but I won't bore everyone with that.)
Suffice it to say, those strap-on boosters are entirely "thrustworthy."
It will be a sight to behold. Good thing all passengers will be able to watch the MM-toasting from all angles via the remote DGIV video cameras mounted at strategic locations outside the titanium hull of our rocket (I also found your "video camera placement plans" in the same place I found the ACMME owners manual--I naturally assume you had the stewardesses help you plan the placement of those cameras).
So I'm really ready for the main event now. And I will never again question your choice of rocket equipment.
A serious DGIV salute to you, RocketMan! And to you, Stewardesses!!
--dch |
