Author Topic: Jarrah White  (Read 37898 times)

Offline ka9q

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Re: Jarrah White
« Reply #75 on: July 20, 2015, 02:34:05 AM »
Although the rocket does end up changing mass as fuel is expended.
Sure. I was thinking of just the payload mass.

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Re: Jarrah White
« Reply #76 on: July 20, 2015, 04:52:00 PM »
Right -- the toddler's mass doesn't change appreciably.
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Re: Jarrah White
« Reply #77 on: July 20, 2015, 06:13:23 PM »
Right -- the toddler's mass doesn't change appreciably.

Unless it decides to have an unfortunate ejection of material during its flight around the grocery store (supermarket), but it usually flies with a self containment system for such events.
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Re: Jarrah White
« Reply #78 on: July 21, 2015, 09:48:23 AM »
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