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Old May 14th 04, 01:24 AM
Paul Tomblin
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In a previous article, "Casey Wilson" said:
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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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.


Nope, it would give them a 4,000 foot pad. Go back to sleep, McNicoll.


Are you saying that 200,000 feet + 120,000 feet is more than 100 km, or
are you saying that they went above 200,000 feet? It's not clear to me,
and that's confusing because 100 km is 328083.99 feet.

$ units
500 units, 54 prefixes
You have: 100 km
You want: feet
* 328083.99
/ 3.048e-06
You have: ^D
$

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