Falcon Heavy is doing 6000 kph at 60 km altitude when the side boosters separate, and 11000 kph at 100 km altitude when the center core shuts down. Any energy the Stratolaunch would give to its rocket payload is negligible in comparison.

You’re allowed to land your plane on the playa. People do it all the time. You are not allowed to leave your inoperable 747 on the playa for weeks at a time in violation of the permit you were issued to bring it out there in the first place.

1.68 minutes = 100.8 seconds.

You seem eager to push the nation’s nuclear waste on Nevada, a state with no nuclear power plants. Which state do you live in? Maybe we could build a repository there?

That isn’t how it went down. We fought it tooth and nail the entire time. We deemed the 1987 bill that selected Yucca as the site the “Screw Nevada” bill and almost all of our representatives have been doing everything possible to kill the proposal ever since.