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Comment well done, however hyperbole aside... (Score 1) 42

"SS2 was released cleanly from VMS Eve and established a stable glide profile (before) descending, almost vertically, at around 15,500 feet per minute,"

aka "we dropped it out of an airplane and it plummeted toward the ground at 176mph"

Who knew aeronautics had made such leaps and bounds? The skies are yours, my boys, the skies are yours. Now, how are you getting on with "the whole setup only does 2500mph tops so to reach the shuttle's speed and LEO we're going to have to build the largest aircraft the world has ever seen to just get a large enough orbiter off the ground"?

hmmmm?

Comment Re:paging competent editors... (Score 1) 42

unique c.1600, "single, solitary," from Fr. unique, from L. unicus "single, sole," from unus "one" (see one). Meaning "forming the only one of its kind" is attested from 1610s; erroneous sense of "remarkable, uncommon" is attested from mid-19c. unique == "only one of its kind" or the word is pointless.

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