Except, when you send a letter to a elected official, you get a form letter response that boils down to "I didn't read your letter, and don't care what it said anyways". Do you really think that it is possible for the populous of the US to influence their elected representatives?
BUT, the Asteroid has to slow down to Earth speed to even intersect Earth, and at those speeds, the relitive speed is very low, plus it is at a shallow angle on the Earth, so would most likely bounce off. Asteroids that hit the Earth are moving at 30k-100k miles/hour speed differential with the Earth, you aren't going to get those speeds from an oops. Consider the recent asteroid breaking up over CA on Sunday morning, it was moving at 33k m/h relative velocity when it broke up. You don't get these kind of speeds out of an object in the asteroid belt, they just aren't going that much faster. To get this relative velocity, the rock had to have been going reverse orbit to us, or have come from the outer solar system.
I can't find the numbers for the orbital velocity of the asteroid belt, as it is probably highly variable, but for the most part, it is going to be moving the same direction as the Earth, and much faster, but will need to be slowed to near the same orbital velocity of the Earth in order to be caught into an Earth orbit.
BTW, in the first paragraph, my units are Miles/hour, later the wikipedia references are in Meters/sec, so there is quite a difference there.
Wouldn't it be nice if someone was trying to jump start the outer space industries so we had somewhere else to go? Seem I was reading a story about some people setting up asteroid mining in order to create the infrastructure for space habitats. I think the company name was something like Planetary Resources, perhaps you should look into that since you are son concerned with being stuck on Earth, they seem to have a good plan for getting people off the planet and living in space.
IANA(Orbital Mechanics Expert) but my understanding is, in order to move a asteroid from the belt to Earth orbit, you have to slow its orbit to match Earth's orbit. In order to cause it to hit the Earth with any appreciable speed, you would have to input that speed in some way.
Maybe because the canedats themselves espouse all these things that they will do. Also, how is it any different when people blame Bush for the Patriot act, and starting the wars, but yet you are speaking as though Obama did not renew the Patriot act, and actually tried to stop the wars.
As far as the economic crash, you don't think that had anything to do with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act?
But it is always fun to blame Bush for everything, after all, it happened during his presidency, it couldn't have had anything to do with anything that happened previously.
As far as the do-what-you-want cudgel, Obama is still using the same cudgel, with the extrajudicial killing of American citizens by drone strike, so you really can't say he doesn't abuse his powers.
I wonder how many American cities you have been too. LA and Mexico City have the same issue, they are both built in a depression which traps the pollution, so they both have the same issue of a haze. New York however has very little in the way of air pollution, though I wouldn't want to swim in the rivers running through the city.:) Pollution issues in cities mostly has to do with geography, until we move from ICE, it is something we can't do too much about.
Interesting read you linked. According to the article you linked however, he never detached a retina, he did however take a day or two to recover from his last run as all the blood vessels in his eye had burst.
Maybe they should redirect the warp power to the structural integrity field and see if they can get it to hold together long enough to get out of the latest crisis.
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Is Cathol one of the saints?
Except, when you send a letter to a elected official, you get a form letter response that boils down to "I didn't read your letter, and don't care what it said anyways". Do you really think that it is possible for the populous of the US to influence their elected representatives?
Unclassified is a classification too!
How about the Electric Slide?
Unfortunately, all the player owned structures would also be able to reinforce more readily...it is a balanced equation.
Look for media safes, they are designed for keeping LTO tapes below melt temperature, which is much lower temp than solder will melt.
BUT, the Asteroid has to slow down to Earth speed to even intersect Earth, and at those speeds, the relitive speed is very low, plus it is at a shallow angle on the Earth, so would most likely bounce off. Asteroids that hit the Earth are moving at 30k-100k miles/hour speed differential with the Earth, you aren't going to get those speeds from an oops. Consider the recent asteroid breaking up over CA on Sunday morning, it was moving at 33k m/h relative velocity when it broke up. You don't get these kind of speeds out of an object in the asteroid belt, they just aren't going that much faster. To get this relative velocity, the rock had to have been going reverse orbit to us, or have come from the outer solar system.
Meteor: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/04/24/0252246/asteroid-the-size-of-a-minivan-exploded-over-california
Earth Orbital Velocity (29.8kmeters/s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#Orbit
I can't find the numbers for the orbital velocity of the asteroid belt, as it is probably highly variable, but for the most part, it is going to be moving the same direction as the Earth, and much faster, but will need to be slowed to near the same orbital velocity of the Earth in order to be caught into an Earth orbit.
BTW, in the first paragraph, my units are Miles/hour, later the wikipedia references are in Meters/sec, so there is quite a difference there.
They're about to become the #3 minority instead of the #2 as well, should be interesting, will we see the S(panish)ET channel next?
Did you read my comment or just the first sentence?
If the structure is resisting 1G and holding in 1Atm, I think we have that pretty much solved down here on earth, no fancy engineering needed.
but they were proposed more for (multi-generational) start-to-star travel, not for actually exploring Solar system (or taking joyrides to Saturn ;)
I think you have those backwards. Outside the solar system, a solar sail is pretty useless. Though feel free to woosh me if you were kidding.
Wouldn't it be nice if someone was trying to jump start the outer space industries so we had somewhere else to go? Seem I was reading a story about some people setting up asteroid mining in order to create the infrastructure for space habitats. I think the company name was something like Planetary Resources, perhaps you should look into that since you are son concerned with being stuck on Earth, they seem to have a good plan for getting people off the planet and living in space.
IANA(Orbital Mechanics Expert) but my understanding is, in order to move a asteroid from the belt to Earth orbit, you have to slow its orbit to match Earth's orbit. In order to cause it to hit the Earth with any appreciable speed, you would have to input that speed in some way.
Maybe because the canedats themselves espouse all these things that they will do. Also, how is it any different when people blame Bush for the Patriot act, and starting the wars, but yet you are speaking as though Obama did not renew the Patriot act, and actually tried to stop the wars.
As far as the economic crash, you don't think that had anything to do with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act
But it is always fun to blame Bush for everything, after all, it happened during his presidency, it couldn't have had anything to do with anything that happened previously.
As far as the do-what-you-want cudgel, Obama is still using the same cudgel, with the extrajudicial killing of American citizens by drone strike, so you really can't say he doesn't abuse his powers.
How would the people who enjoy BET feel is someone started WET? Why would WET be racist, but BET is not?
Even more than that. e911 can triangulate your position within about 100ft from using the time delay of multiple cell towers.
I would personally point out that Obama has been in office for 3.5 years and still hasn't fixed any of these problems.
Minivans typically carry 7 people, vans carry 15, or 2 and cargo. Ford Econoline vs a minivan is like 4 feet difference in length.
So why didn't you submit it?
I wonder how many American cities you have been too. LA and Mexico City have the same issue, they are both built in a depression which traps the pollution, so they both have the same issue of a haze. New York however has very little in the way of air pollution, though I wouldn't want to swim in the rivers running through the city. :) Pollution issues in cities mostly has to do with geography, until we move from ICE, it is something we can't do too much about.
ctrl-f4...I shouldn't of used the brackets.
Personally, I use f4, seems to work better.
Interesting read you linked. According to the article you linked however, he never detached a retina, he did however take a day or two to recover from his last run as all the blood vessels in his eye had burst.
Um, that episode was about accelerated evolution, not reversed evolution.
The Doctor observes that what happened to Lieutenant Paris was an accelerated form of Human evolution.
Maybe they should redirect the warp power to the structural integrity field and see if they can get it to hold together long enough to get out of the latest crisis.