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This is How You Lift the Heavy Stuff

06/17/2016 10:08 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCy401hkXuk

sorry thee will be no crash on a sea barge at the end
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Re: this is how you lift the heavy stuff

06/17/2016 11:01 AM

I don't have the capability of looking at the video, If that's solid fuel, once those candles are lite, you've already past the point of no return.

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Re: this is how you lift the heavy stuff

06/17/2016 11:16 AM

According to Wiki, the two boosters are actually liquid fuel...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy
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Re: this is how you lift the heavy stuff

06/17/2016 11:19 AM

not solids, no
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Re: this is how you lift the heavy stuff

06/17/2016 2:35 PM

I'll bet they have to pay the gas guzzler tax.
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Re: This is How You Lift the Heavy Stuff

06/17/2016 4:07 PM

The mpg might be a bit high durring initial acceleration, but once it starts ro coast on that vacuum sealed space bearing....

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Re: This is How You Lift the Heavy Stuff

06/17/2016 4:27 PM

Did you mean to say that the mpg would be low initially, or that the gpm would be high?

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