[Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice

[Brian Casteel]

On the contrary, I looked at the first result (i.e. 'most relevant') and 
went with that.  :)

Brian
Team A.I.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Tomlinson" <billtomlinson@qwest.net>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice


> Sure the search results took .26 seconds, but we know that (like every
> presidential candidate) you viewed all 15,200 resulting pages to find
> the one that best supported your position.  ;)
>
> Bill
> CacheLess
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of
> Brian Casteel
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 12:06 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice
>
>
> Results 1 - 10 of about 15,200 for shuttle crawler. (0.26 seconds)
>
> I'll tell ya what, that quarter-second really took it out of me.  :)
>
> Brian
> Team A.I.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roping The Wind" <arizcowboy@hotmail.com>
> To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice
>
>
>> Geez, you guys have way too much time on your hands...  shouldnt you
>> be
>> out geocaching instead!?  :) LOL  ;)
>>
>> Scott
>> Team Ropingthewind
>>
>>
>>>From: Jim Scotti <jscotti@pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU>
>>>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>>>To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>>>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice
>>>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:14:17 -0700 (MST)
>>>
>>>Thanks Brian,
>>>     Sounds like it gets about 37 feet per gallon - I thought 8
>>>gallons
>>> per
>>>foot sounded a bit steep.....
>>>     BTW, the crawler maintains its payload perfectly upright even
> while
>>>crawling up the slope of the launchpads.  Quite a feat of engineering.
>
>>>It's
>>>impressive to watch - I saw the rollout for the very first Space
> Shuttle
>>>launch.  The shuttle on the crawler just creeped along and during the
> time
>>>that the crew for that flight (John Young and Bob Crippen) talked to
> the
>>>crowd the spacecraft and crawler moved slowly along behind them - you
>>>could
>>>just barely see it moving and it traveled maybe 1000 feet or so while
> they
>>>talked.  That was in December 1980.
>>>
>>>Jim.
>>>
>>>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Brian Casteel wrote:
>>>
>>> > After some google action, I came across this:
>>> >
>>> > Explanation: NASA's Crawler-Transporters are the largest tracked
>>>vehicles in
>>> > existence. Although the crawlers pack over 5,000 horsepower, their
>>> > top
>>>speed
>>> > is less than two kilometers per hour when fully loaded. Eleven
>>> > people
>>>are
>>> > needed to drive a single crawler. Diesel fuel mileage is about 350
>>>liters
>>> > per kilometer (less than 0.007 miles per gallon). The crawler's
>>> > function
>>>is
>>> > to move NASA's space shuttles -- complete with launch platforms -- 
>>> > from
>>>the
>>> > Assembly Building to the Launch Pad at Kennedy Space Center in
>>> > Florida,
>>>USA.
>>> > Two of these massive machines have operated since the Apollo era
>>> > and
>>>have
>>> > now crawled over 4,000 kilometers, all the while keeping their
>>> > contents perfectly upright. In this picture a crawler transports
>>> > the shuttle
>>>Columbia
>>> > to the pad prior to its March 1st launch on the latest Hubble Space
>
>>> > Telelescope Servicing Mission.
>>> >
>>> > Based on these figures, it looks like the Crawler uses 924.7
>>> > gallons of
>>>fuel
>>> > to cover the approximate distance of 6.21 miles.  Sounds like some
>>> > of today's oversized, underutilized status symbols.  :)
>>> >
>>> > Brian
>>> >
>>> > Team A.I.
>>> >
>>>
>>>Jim Scotti
>>>Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
>>>University of Arizona
>>>Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
>>>
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