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Originally Posted by bgd73
is the quest for aerodynamics lack of power for the given body?
even 120mph is not quite like the space shuttle, and that has goofy pieces of foam getting tortured on leading edges...
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The "goofy pieces of foam" on the shuttle are actually ceramics - aerated silica. The leading edges are actually all reinforced carbon carbon.
Troll, or math-phobic, and/or unable to comprehend neither how air drag scales to the square of velocity, nor how that relates to power requirements just to push a body through the atmosphere.
