I wonder if these two planets are in their death throws in terms of meeting one another in their orbital dance around their host start. Is it possible that we will be lucky enough to detect these two planets colliding in the "nearish" future?
Is it possible that these two planets have somehow found an equilibrium in their orbits, even when they get so close to one another? Time will tell.
Cheese or no cheese, every re-entry is different. Just because they have tested it once doesn't mean it is fail safe. I will consider the mission complete when Dragon is back on land and has been emptied of its return cargo.
If someone wants to go sub-orbital or into orbit, "riding a bomb" is the only way to get there.
When it comes down to it, it's just a controlled explosion, no matter which rocket on the market you pick.
Putting it into the context of this post it was a similar pre-production epic fail. When you have potential buyers watching an airframe fly into a stand of trees it does not bode well for sales.
It would be the first thing that ablates off, or would be near the surface when it hits the ground at supersonic speeds.
Meteorites large enough to make it through earth's atmosphere hit the earth at sub-sonic speeds.
Even an object the size of an interplanetary probe hit the earth at sub-sonic speeds. Take for example the Genesis probe, it was travelling at 24,706 mph when it first encountered the earth's atmosphere, but when it hit the ground it was only travelling 193 mph.
It is quite plausible that microbes or some other form of life BURIED in a meteorite could survive the plunge down an exo-planets gravity well and atmosphere.
You are also assuming that the exo-planets atmosphere is the same density as Earth's. Again it is very possible that the exo-planets atmosphere is very thin compared with Earth's meaning small objects have an even better chance to survive the plunge.
Your assuming the destination exo-planet has a similar atmosphere to earth. The density of Earth's atmosphere has changed over the course of 4 billion years mainly due to the presence of life. If an exo-planet has little to no life on it pre-ejecta impact then its possible its atmosphere is extremely thin which would allow the ejecta to "mostly" survive its fall down the gravity well.
hear, hear, lets spend all of our precious energy inventing news ways of offing ourselves, that way when the killer asteroid does impact at some point in the future it will put a nice layer of dust over our dribble.
As a web developer here in Canada I am demanding a browser tax for every Canadian that views my websites via a browser. I am losing gajjillions of dollars every year because Canadians are "View Sourcing" my HTML/CSS/JS and copying it wholesale to make their own websites.
Every Canadian must pay a tax for each browser they use to me because I am too stupid to learn how to create other streams of revenue in this new digital world. I will instead sit on my pony in Hollywood and/or Hogtown and demand that my life of entitlement persist until the end of time.
So I guess the Model X will only be marketed to people in non snow getting areas of world?
Any amount of snow or ice that builds up on the car during driving or while sitting in a parking lot are going to end up INSIDE the car once I open those gull wings. My back seat passengers are going to be pissed if they have to sit in a snow drift for the drive home.
Looks like a "neat" car, but for the majority of car users who experience some sort of Winter weather it is quite impractical.
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Very interesting.
I wonder if these two planets are in their death throws in terms of meeting one another in their orbital dance around their host start. Is it possible that we will be lucky enough to detect these two planets colliding in the "nearish" future?
Is it possible that these two planets have somehow found an equilibrium in their orbits, even when they get so close to one another? Time will tell.
Put a big wing on top and it would look more like a Lambda-class Imperial Shuttle
All of them.
Yep, they reversed the decision.
Supply... meet Demand
Cheese or no cheese, every re-entry is different. Just because they have tested it once doesn't mean it is fail safe. I will consider the mission complete when Dragon is back on land and has been emptied of its return cargo.
If someone wants to go sub-orbital or into orbit, "riding a bomb" is the only way to get there. When it comes down to it, it's just a controlled explosion, no matter which rocket on the market you pick.
That's right! You should be focusing your hadwavy accusations at the lawyers.... wait... most politicians are lawyers.... nevermind.
Can add large sectors of the Canadian government to the list as well.
Of course, if I ever need an MRI, I'll need them taken out.
Don't worry, the MRI will remove them for you in one quick pulling motion.
Putting it into the context of this post it was a similar pre-production epic fail. When you have potential buyers watching an airframe fly into a stand of trees it does not bode well for sales.
Do you not remember the Airbus crash in Paris in 88'? Airbus seemed to rebound after this epic fail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cv2ud1339E
I think God did it as stated in the Bible
If its stated in a book of fiction then it HAS to be true.
Excuse me while I go out back to feed my Unicorn.
It would be the first thing that ablates off, or would be near the surface when it hits the ground at supersonic speeds.
Meteorites large enough to make it through earth's atmosphere hit the earth at sub-sonic speeds.
Even an object the size of an interplanetary probe hit the earth at sub-sonic speeds. Take for example the Genesis probe, it was travelling at 24,706 mph when it first encountered the earth's atmosphere, but when it hit the ground it was only travelling 193 mph.
It is quite plausible that microbes or some other form of life BURIED in a meteorite could survive the plunge down an exo-planets gravity well and atmosphere.
You are also assuming that the exo-planets atmosphere is the same density as Earth's. Again it is very possible that the exo-planets atmosphere is very thin compared with Earth's meaning small objects have an even better chance to survive the plunge.
Your assuming the destination exo-planet has a similar atmosphere to earth. The density of Earth's atmosphere has changed over the course of 4 billion years mainly due to the presence of life. If an exo-planet has little to no life on it pre-ejecta impact then its possible its atmosphere is extremely thin which would allow the ejecta to "mostly" survive its fall down the gravity well.
I stopped reading after "14 Division".
I couldn't concentrate on the slashdoter-tisement due to all the bouncing and eye rolling.
hear, hear, lets spend all of our precious energy inventing news ways of offing ourselves, that way when the killer asteroid does impact at some point in the future it will put a nice layer of dust over our dribble.
Could we be seeing another Great Firewall of China?
No, this is the beginning of the great Wirewall of India: http://www.photopumpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/electric_wire_3.jpg
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As a web developer here in Canada I am demanding a browser tax for every Canadian that views my websites via a browser. I am losing gajjillions of dollars every year because Canadians are "View Sourcing" my HTML/CSS/JS and copying it wholesale to make their own websites.
Every Canadian must pay a tax for each browser they use to me because I am too stupid to learn how to create other streams of revenue in this new digital world. I will instead sit on my pony in Hollywood and/or Hogtown and demand that my life of entitlement persist until the end of time.
So I guess the Model X will only be marketed to people in non snow getting areas of world? Any amount of snow or ice that builds up on the car during driving or while sitting in a parking lot are going to end up INSIDE the car once I open those gull wings. My back seat passengers are going to be pissed if they have to sit in a snow drift for the drive home. Looks like a "neat" car, but for the majority of car users who experience some sort of Winter weather it is quite impractical.
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Scott Thompson?!
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