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Old May 15th 04, 05:04 PM
Steven P. McNicoll
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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Except for the rules of the X-Prize, the details of the X-15, and pretty
much everything else.


Well, if that's true, you'll be able to cite the statements I made that are
incorrect. Please take a shot at establishing some credibility and do so.


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Old May 15th 04, 06:24 PM
Larry Dighera
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On Sat, 15 May 2004 16:04:22 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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Except for the rules of the X-Prize, the details of the X-15, and pretty
much everything else.


Well, if that's true, you'll be able to cite the statements I made that are
incorrect. Please take a shot at establishing some credibility and do so.


It would seem that you errored in your assertion that the altitude of
320,000' was 8,000' short of the X-prize requirement:


From: "Steven P. McNicoll"
Subject: Rutan hits 200k feet! Almost there!
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"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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Only 120,000 more feet straight up and they've made the first
qualifying flight for the $10 million X-Prize.


That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100
km.



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Old May 15th 04, 06:50 PM
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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It would seem that you errored in your assertion that the altitude of
320,000' was 8,000' short of the X-prize requirement:


Oh? I believe I said it would leave them ABOUT 8000 feet short of the X
Prize requirement. The X Prize requirement is 100 km, by my math that's
328,084 feet, rounded off to the nearest foot. Where is my error?


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Old May 15th 04, 07:33 PM
Chad Irby
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In article .net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Well, if that's true, you'll be able to cite the statements I made
that are incorrect. Please take a shot at establishing some
credibility and do so.


Every time I've mentioned it so far, you've gotten a sudden case of
amnesia, with a side-dose of "I didn't say that."

**** off.

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Old May 16th 04, 04:40 PM
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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Every time I've mentioned it so far, you've gotten a sudden case of
amnesia, with a side-dose of "I didn't say that."

**** off.


If you knew of a single statement of mine that was incorrect you'd have
cited it. Your level of credibility has been established.


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Old May 16th 04, 06:18 PM
Casey Wilson
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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Every time I've mentioned it so far, you've gotten a sudden case of
amnesia, with a side-dose of "I didn't say that."

**** off.


If you knew of a single statement of mine that was incorrect you'd have
cited it. Your level of credibility has been established.


Hmmm. Mr. McNicoll, in the third message of this thread you said:
"That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100 km."
That was incorrect. But, of course, that error on your part didn't
count -- since it was based on ignorance.


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Old May 17th 04, 01:42 AM
Steven P. McNicoll
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"Casey Wilson" wrote in message ...

Hmmm. Mr. McNicoll, in the third message of this thread you said:
"That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100 km."
That was incorrect. But, of course, that error on your part didn't
count -- since it was based on ignorance.


Please help to releive me of my ignorance and explain how it was incorrect.
 




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