SpaceShipTwo can accelerate as much as 3.8 g during accent and up to 6 g during reentry. I don't think they will be sending him up if there is even the slightest risk to his health.
Four cosmonauts have stayed for 365 days or longer continuously in space during the 1990's. The record for the longest space flight being held by Valeri Polyakov who stayed on the Mir space station from 1994 - 1995. Russian achievements are often obscured because of the uncomparable public involvment by NASA. See: Ten Longest Space Flights
--- Wanda Says: We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
-- Copper, Interstellar (Movie) (2014)
it will be really a defeat of humanity if the weapons make it to space. it's a one way street like the nuclear weapons. more over space debris from a war in space would trap us on earth.
here is our chance to stop this from happening:
"The Bush administration's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is now calling for public comment on their Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Public comment is due by November 17, 2004. People from all countries are urged to send comments." (see URL below for more details)
on my first day on as a system administrator in a big research institute in india, as i did a 'top' i found that the previous administrators was running seti@home. I felt very happy at this discovery for two resons: 1) someone shared the same interest 2) all that computing power was not going waste
subsequently i also started doing the same and within 2 month my WU count went from 50 to 1000. please not that i had been a seti@homeuser for last 5 years. the very idea of 6 >2Ghz xeon processors sitting idle. i suggest more people should be doing this and should even be hounored not fired.
i take care that seti@home does not interfere with the day to day performance of the services by running it at 'nice 19'
"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Here is what Einstien once told to a group of children:
Title: Teachers and Pupils
Description: An address to children, 1934
Message: The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.
The Quote:
My dear Children,
I rejoice to see you before me to-day, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honour it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.
If you always keep that in mind you will find a meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude towards other nations and ages.
An article in the Most popular mars daily paper reads:
Little green men on Mars are being warned about the upcoming close encounter with our appearently beautiful neighbor, Earth.
The inhabitants of the planet Earth are known to be greedy, territorial and suicidal (they have enough nuclear power to blow their planet 10 times over. We still don't understand why they call our planet "The God of War"). They have already consumed their home planet, and are expected to be looking towards us during this encounter. Some of them may even try to hop on to our side. Reports confirm 2 or 3 rocket ships launched earlier this year moving towards Mars.
Continue staying underground in caves. Build no canals, humanoid faces or any other structures on the surface reflecting presence of intelligent life on our planet. continue the planet wide dust storm as it will repel the earthlings.
Earth will probably stink because of high leavels of pollution.
--- The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
-- Mark Twain
i caught it with 20x120 binocs.. i was observing from quite a light
polluted place in new delhi on 16/12. it was very high in the sky and made the observation neck breaking!
It was really some experience.. first hunting that quickly moving rock at
the limit of binocs reach and then watch it move w.r.t stars.. and to know
that before 2027, next such event (bright NEO) will only happen in 2004.:-)
i have put my observation log and a plot of moving wt24 and stars
here.
the log shows some of excitement i went through. not anything of scientific
value though.
here are downloadable finder charts prepared using Guide 7.0 to make life a little easier.
here is a MUST SEE mpeg video made by compiling the frames from a 2 hour CCD run on WT24 by Nick James
here is great image showing 1 complete rotation of 1998 WT24
window seat is $10000.. few mir cosmonauts + Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin will also be in that plane.
here's the link and here's the application form if you are really interested:-)
some one please stop the earth, let me get off before they try any of this.
"New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. "
--David Letterman
Slashdot Mirror
SpaceShipTwo can accelerate as much as 3.8 g during accent and up to 6 g during reentry. I don't think they will be sending him up if there is even the slightest risk to his health.
Reference: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/12/07/spaceshiptwo-whiteknighttwo-specs-flight-profile/
Four cosmonauts have stayed for 365 days or longer continuously in space during the 1990's. The record for the longest space flight being held by Valeri Polyakov who stayed on the Mir space station from 1994 - 1995. Russian achievements are often obscured because of the uncomparable public involvment by NASA.
See: Ten Longest Space Flights
---
Wanda Says:
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
-- Copper, Interstellar (Movie) (2014)
it will be really a defeat of humanity if the weapons make it to space. it's a one way street like the nuclear weapons. more over space debris from a war in space would trap us on earth.
here is our chance to stop this from happening:
"The Bush administration's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is now calling for public comment on their Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Public comment is due by November 17, 2004. People from all countries are urged to send comments." (see URL below for more details)
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/actions/pubon my first day on as a system administrator in a big research institute in india, as i did a 'top' i found that the previous administrators was running seti@home. I felt very happy at this discovery for two resons:
1) someone shared the same interest
2) all that computing power was not going waste
subsequently i also started doing the same and within 2 month my WU count went from 50 to 1000. please not that i had been a seti@homeuser for last 5 years. the very idea of 6 >2Ghz xeon processors sitting idle. i suggest more people should be doing this and should even be hounored not fired.
i take care that seti@home does not interfere with the day to day performance of the services by running it at 'nice 19'
"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Here is what Einstien once told to a group of children:
Title: Teachers and Pupils
Description: An address to children, 1934
Message: The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.
The Quote:
slashdotted!
An article in the Most popular mars daily paper reads:
Little green men on Mars are being warned about the upcoming close encounter with our appearently beautiful neighbor, Earth.
The inhabitants of the planet Earth are known to be greedy, territorial and suicidal (they have enough nuclear power to blow their planet 10 times over. We still don't understand why they call our planet "The God of War"). They have already consumed their home planet, and are expected to be looking towards us during this encounter. Some of them may even try to hop on to our side. Reports confirm 2 or 3 rocket ships launched earlier this year moving towards Mars.
Continue staying underground in caves. Build no canals, humanoid faces or any other structures on the surface reflecting presence of intelligent life on our planet. continue the planet wide dust storm as it will repel the earthlings.
Earth will probably stink because of high leavels of pollution.
---
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
-- Mark Twain
i thought that there are 3.5 people working. 3 full time and 1 'Kyle Smalley' part time.
vikrant narang
---
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
you should see this link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010528.html
i caught it with 20x120 binocs .. i was observing from quite a light
polluted place in new delhi on 16/12. it was very high in the sky and made the observation neck breaking!
It was really some experience .. first hunting that quickly moving rock at
the limit of binocs reach and then watch it move w.r.t stars .. and to know
that before 2027, next such event (bright NEO) will only happen in 2004. :-)
i have put my observation log and a plot of moving wt24 and stars here. the log shows some of excitement i went through. not anything of scientific value though.
here are downloadable finder charts prepared using Guide 7.0 to make life a little easier.
here is a MUST SEE mpeg video made by compiling the frames from a 2 hour CCD run on WT24 by Nick James
here is great image showing 1 complete rotation of 1998 WT24
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Wanda Says:
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in the times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality."
-- Dante
window seat is $10000 .. few mir cosmonauts + Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin will also be in that plane.
here's the link and here's the application form if you are really interested :-)
I wonder what are the odds of a radio from mir falling in my backyard, intact!! :)
"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having a 'war' on it?"
-- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc
some one please stop the earth, let me get off before they try any of this. "New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. " --David Letterman
I better not forget to take the oars before leaving the shore in such a craft.