My missile in its current configuration can reach 375 miles (including payload capabilities), which puts the city of Little Rock within range from Tullahoma. Why Little Rock, you ask. Because Little Rock, Arkansas is the home of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library. It's close right now, the extra 25 miles of range that I need to tweak out of the design will make a hit more probable (especially since I don't know where in Little Rock the library is). Lee is the one who thought Little Rock might be in range, and I proposed the targeting of the library, so we'll both take credit for the idea, but I get more credit for picking out the actual target.
This morning, Lee was off at some volleyball thing for his cousin, so I got to sit around and do nothing this morning. So, usual Sunday morning. The afternoon also involved sitting around, but I was working on my trajectory code. I gave up on what I wanted to do, and compromised with myself on a combination flight path. It's not the simple pure ballistic trajectory that the others are doing, but it's not the boost and cruise that I wanted to do when I started, either. Sacrifices must be made, I suppose.
It was nice to be able to unwind with The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad, and Battlestar Galactica tonight. Sometimes I have enough work to force me to skip everything but BSG, but I felt comfortable taking those 3 hours off tonight. I do need to finish up some literature searching for Moeller, but I'm planning to do some of that tomorrow at school. Hopefully, it's going to be easy to find what I want. Probably, I'll have to threaten to kill someone and leave a horse's head on their desk.
I think we should have convinced Gloyer that tomorrow was a school holiday (President's Day, which the school obviously feels isn't very important to honor the father of the country and the inventor of peanut butter); I don't want to go to class. More tomorrow.
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