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bradgator2

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Actual photo of Brad and his college chums:

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Pretty close. Except we didn’t have a black guy.
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So the rocket equation tells us that our available Delta V is proportional to the velocity of the exhaust and the natural log of the initial mass of fuel divided by essentially mass flow rate.

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That's not the mass of the fuel, it's the mass of the rocket with fuel. And neither one is a rate. They are masses before and after the burn.
 

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I've talked about this before, but separate from "censorship" (maybe call it a different form of censorship) is that if I look something up on Wiki on my laptop in America in English, and tell a friend in say Russia to do the same on his laptop in Russian, there are often very, very different accounts of history, and I don't mean due to translation issues, I mean completely different content.
 

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I've talked about this before, but separate from "censorship" (maybe call it a different form of censorship) is that if I look something up on Wiki on my laptop in America in English, and tell a friend in say Russia to do the same on his laptop in Russian, there are often very, very different accounts of history, and I don't mean due to translation issues, I mean completely different content.
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:facepalm: Like I said, "essentially". So calm your 8th grade math tits. Sorry, it was 3 years ago, not sure what my point was. But, to know your final mass you'll need to know the time of the burn and the mass flow rate because when you are actually using the equations you are generally targeting a dV and want to know your burn time. Or you want to know how much fuel is left and velocity after a burn of a certain duration.
 

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:facepalm: Like I said, "essentially". So calm your 8th grade math tits. Sorry, it was 3 years ago, not sure what my point was. But, to know your final mass you'll need to know the time of the burn and the mass flow rate because when you are actually using the equations you are generally targeting a dV and want to know your burn time. Or you want to know how much fuel is left and velocity after a burn of a certain duration.
You should stop pretending you know what you're talking about. Your edit was wrong too and has since been corrected.
 

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Are we upset, and cussing, over rockets? Because if so, I need to know. For me, I just push em around the air in my livingroom and make the engine noise with the back of my throat.

Stay calm and rocket on.
Sigh....you can't just make a 'back of your throat' reference without also including a mom joke. Even your mom knows that!
 

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Sigh....you can't just make a 'back of your throat' reference without also including a mom joke. Even your mom knows that!

Noted.

@ThreatMatrix I want to amend my previous comment. When I'm sitting criss-cross Indian style, I'm in your Mom's living room and pushing the rocket through the air. That's when I make the rocket noise using the back of my throat.

@Back Alley Gator , how was that?
 

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