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Old Aug 20, 2007, 11:18 am   #96 (permalink) (top)
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uhhh, no you cant. Care to explain why you think you can?
Actually you could, but you would need a tremendous amount of fuel to do it.
An object's escape velocity is simply the speed at which it can excape the gravitational pull of the Earth without using any power. The point being, the booster is designed to get the vehicle up to speed before its fuel runs out.


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