Re: RE: [FT] Orbit and FT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
hovering over the pole
> >It's perfectly feasible with present-day thrust technology.
>
> Feasible, but not very practical.
>
> >(at least until the fuel runs out,
>
> THIS is the tech I was referring to - we could do it now, but not for
very
> long.  Future PSB regarding fuel efficiency was what I was
referencing.

Of course, the pull of gravity goes down the further up you go. - like 1
/
(radius squared )

For a spaceship at the height of a geostationanry orbit, you need about
3%
of the thrust at ground level.

Greetings