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To: FJB who wrote (31109)	2/21/1999 1:15:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Bob (OT), Cool links. I love that kind of stuff. I think I'll pick up the Nature journal to read more about that Bose-Einstein gel. The light slowing must be due to an electron absorption-emission process as the photons move through the gel. Cooling the gel must inhibit the re-emission rate which may be thermally assisted by an interaction with phonons. Well, I'm just guessing... Also, two weeks ago I was out in Florida and saw the Stardust launch from the Kennedy Space Center. They have a full scale Saturn V rocket on display out there that must be seen to believe. It is absolutely amazing that that thing ever made it off the ground. Not bad for a bunch of monkeys. As for cost effectively obtaining orbit, it just seems to me that they should use the benefit of a wing and a longer amount of time; mostly for safety and reusability reasons. No matter how you slice it, it will always take a finite amount of energy to accelerate a mass from zero to escape velocity -- regardless of the ship design. But, it definitely makes sense to either extract the energy from the air, or have it beamed to the ship, rather than lifting it as part of the payload. Look what Sony is cooking up for their next Playstation: eetimes.com 30 million polygons per second!!! Pravin.