h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Project Daedalus - Interstellar Spacecraft - A49659727
Author: Ictoan S.H.A.D.O.W. Secretary - AWE - WAWi - U173821

Companion to the HOTOL bit I did earlier (and is still in subed!).

For future reference, if this makes the cut then would be good to repoint link from A11949195
and add a link from A41427281

Let me know what ya think...

There's a few bits early on which could do with tags to seperate them out. You also use the word 'baseline' twice in the space of a few lines (admittedly over two paragraphs) at the end - could you change one?

I've never heard of it, it sounds interesting and I think you've done a good job of making it understandable.

As you said, the project was flawed but invaluable as a design brainstorm. If I was part of a design review panel, and reading this through for the first time, my immediate reaction would be that the mechanics of separating and jettisoning 700 tons of stage 1 at 7% of light speed would result in end of mission.

A couple of typos I spotted en route:

<> t missing

There are two full stops where footnote 2 occurs in the text. Also the '2' should be inside the full stop

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footnotes 3,4 and 5 need full stops at the end

This is a good piece

Lose the tags, change the s to s and turn those curly double quotes into single quotes, though.

Alex

cheers all - made those changes now.
Elentari, any more specific changes for the first bit? I've take Alex's suggestion of removing the br tags and replaced them with tags - does that split it out enough or need more work?

It looks fine to me

No, that looks great.

any more comments? I've got nowt more to add to the article myself.

It looks good to me

A fascinating read.

Icy

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Cheers! and thanks for the input peeps

Well done, Icky

thankee both

I guess this means I'll have to do something on Alan Bond now. But I hate doing bio's, they don't suit my logical intro/main/outro approach to articles.