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Oct 7, 2011 8:56:09 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 7, 2011 8:56:09 GMT
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Oct 8, 2011 10:37:16 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 8, 2011 10:37:16 GMT
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Oct 13, 2011 21:31:42 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 13, 2011 21:31:42 GMT
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Nov 8, 2011 10:37:24 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 8, 2011 10:37:24 GMT
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Nov 8, 2011 19:06:04 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Nov 8, 2011 19:06:04 GMT
IT'S GUNNA PASS NEARER THAN THE MOON?!?!!!!
DEAR GOD!!!!!!
I know the Moon is actualy a surprisingly long way away, but still!!!
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Nov 8, 2011 20:36:32 GMT
Post by legios on Nov 8, 2011 20:36:32 GMT
Space is big though. Very, very big.
Closer than the moon still encompasses a rather large amount of real estate. Good opportunity for our largest sensor platform to get a good look at the passing rock though.
Karl
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Nov 30, 2011 19:06:43 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Nov 30, 2011 19:06:43 GMT
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Nov 30, 2011 21:04:45 GMT
Post by legios on Nov 30, 2011 21:04:45 GMT
So the worms were in a liquid suspension.... an environment which mimics some of the characteristics of Zero-G environments.. whilst being in a Zero-G environment... Feels almost like double jeopardy.
Karl
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Jan 5, 2012 20:01:57 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2012 20:01:57 GMT
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Jan 12, 2012 2:25:45 GMT
Post by kayevcee on Jan 12, 2012 2:25:45 GMT
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Jan 12, 2012 20:12:56 GMT
Post by legios on Jan 12, 2012 20:12:56 GMT
If the inferences are right then there is something rather exciting about this. I find it rather reassuring to think that our own backyard is not inherently special.
Karl
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Jan 22, 2012 23:30:14 GMT
Post by kayevcee on Jan 22, 2012 23:30:14 GMT
If the inferences are right then there is something rather exciting about this. I find it rather reassuring to think that our own backyard is not inherently special. I had to write an essay about accretion theory for an astronomy course I took back at Strathclyde. I explained everything we had been taught about it in the lectures, and concluded by saying that a single example is nowhere near enough to base an entire theory on and that it could all be completely wrong. I got like 92%. -Nick |
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Feb 21, 2012 16:44:10 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2012 16:44:10 GMT
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Feb 21, 2012 17:53:37 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2012 17:53:37 GMT
]IT'S GUNNA PASS NEARER THAN THE MOON?!?!!!! DEAR GOD!!!!!! I know the Moon is actualy a surprisingly long way away, but still!!! I should have reposted this at the time: You could drive a bus through that gap..... |
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Feb 22, 2012 9:37:34 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Feb 22, 2012 9:37:34 GMT
Wow, that's just incredible, isn't it? That tiny dot is us!!!
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Feb 29, 2012 10:33:20 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 29, 2012 10:33:20 GMT
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Feb 29, 2012 19:36:45 GMT
Post by kayevcee on Feb 29, 2012 19:36:45 GMT
From the article: "The news is important for future missions to the planet. Scientists use this data to plan missions to the planet and choose the best spot to land a rover."
A rover. On Venus. A planet with a surface temperature of up to 500C and air pressure equivalent to 93 Earth atmospheres where it constantly rains a mixture of highly concentrated carbonic and sulfuric acid (two different-strength acids in solution together can, if the stronger acid can further oxidise the weaker one, form a "superacid" that is much more potent than either acid individually). That must be some rover.
-Nick
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Feb 29, 2012 20:03:20 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Feb 29, 2012 20:03:20 GMT
It will be 1-Rover-1.
-Ralph
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Feb 29, 2012 20:18:11 GMT
Post by legios on Feb 29, 2012 20:18:11 GMT
Personally I think they'd need something as inexplicable as The Village's Rover to survive those conditions.
Karl
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Mar 3, 2012 9:55:41 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2012 9:55:41 GMT
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Mar 3, 2012 10:38:55 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2012 10:38:55 GMT
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Mar 4, 2012 6:55:54 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 4, 2012 6:55:54 GMT
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Mar 16, 2012 22:39:20 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2012 22:39:20 GMT
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Mar 17, 2012 7:06:51 GMT
Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 17, 2012 7:06:51 GMT
Excellent. And it even has a happy ending. I genuinely thought we were going to burn up and die. Martin |
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Mar 17, 2012 7:21:07 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2012 7:21:07 GMT
I think the main fuel tank (under the shutte & between the boosters) is the non reusable component in a shuttle launch.
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Mar 17, 2012 22:48:14 GMT
Post by legios on Mar 17, 2012 22:48:14 GMT
I think the main fuel tank (under the shutte & between the boosters) is the non reusable component in a shuttle launch. Yep. The main tank burns up in the atmosphere after being jetissoned. There were repeated suggestion of holding onto it slightly longer to loft it into a stable orbit to eventually be used as components of a space station (gathering them in similar orbits for later collection), but nothing ever came of that. (The solid-fuel boosters were ...variably... reuseable, from what I've read they were designed to be reused but didn't always weather the immersion in salt-water terribly well). Karl |
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Mar 18, 2012 20:50:26 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2012 20:50:26 GMT
Oh My God that's an amazing video.
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Mar 23, 2012 12:20:54 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 23, 2012 12:20:54 GMT
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Mar 23, 2012 12:22:55 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 23, 2012 12:22:55 GMT
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Mar 28, 2012 17:39:26 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2012 17:39:26 GMT
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