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This is one of my best friends, Brian Campbell, a Hydrospheric Science and Education Specialist at http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/STA…
He and I received our BS's in Geologic/Physical Science together. He's a brilliant scientist and NOT your typical science nerd.
He works at Goddard: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/godd…
- Nairn0
anyone else here make a point of visiting the 'Astronomy Picture of the Day' website?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod…
today's image is particularily entrancing.. I've been going pretty much daily since I first started on the interwebs..
- kbags0
the nsync cosmonaut that wasn't was Lance Bass
Dude, they put two men on the moon in '69 with a rocketship that had significantly less technology than my shitbox HP laptop that I'm typing on right now. Then they did it five more times in 2.5 years.
Risk is a part of the business, the difference is the speed of media coverage, which like the war, allows you to have opinoins in real time.
they need to get going on plans to build a new, advanced space shuttle if they want to keep flying. ENTER: X-Prize
- snuggles0
I heard the other day that we never had the technology to put someone on the moon back then and we actually still don't have the technology, but then again I believe everything I see on TV and the internet....
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I heard the other day that we never had the technology to put someone on the moon back then and we actually still don't have the technology, but then again I believe everything I see on TV and the internet....
snuggles
(Jul 28 05, 10:20)that's BS, then how do you explain the Moon Rock samples that contain elements foreign to the Earth and that do not occur in Asteroids...?
- snuggles0
figments of the imagination?
I dunno, nor do I care, sorry, I'll leave now...
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New minerals were discovered on the Moon. The most well known is called armalcolite, named after the Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. Armalcolite is a high titanium mineral that forms at high temperatures and pressures such as those that exist when a meteorite impacts the surface.
- Nairn0
JazX... Prove it.
:P
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actually, though to be fair they have found those same constituent minerals in rock near impact craters here on Earth as well.
- peteski0
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
(pretty good)
• Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is, at best, only an opinion.
• To design a spacecraft right takes a infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong.
• (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.
• At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it.
• In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.
• When in doubt, estimate. In an emergency, guess. But be sure to go back and clean up the mess when the real numbers come along.
• Sometimes, the fastest way to get to the end is to throw everything out and start over.
• The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up.
• The fact that an analysis appears in print has no relationship to the likelihood of its being correct.
• Past experience is excellent for providing a reality check. Too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile design, though.
• The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, the chances are better that you've screwed up than that you've invented warp drive.
• A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
• (Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
• Space is a completely unforgiving environment. If you screw up the engineering, SOMEBODY DIES!
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I like it peteski
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kOna, you know alot about space. hey maybe you and that dude from 'nsync could hang out. wasn't he going to be an astronaut. remember when homer was an astronaut? that was an awesome episode.
jakeyj
(Jul 28 05, 10:03)i'm a discovery channel buff. history channel too. on comcast cable i can program my 'favorite' channels. all the discovery and history channels are bookmarked. along with comedy central (aduit swim) and espn. ha. 300+ station and i only watch about 5.
- Fariska0
Guys you are truly space nerds :-)
Please go on mining information!
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Guys you are truly space nerds :-)
Please go on mining information!
Fariska
(Jul 28 05, 10:57)mining information or mining moon rocks?
;)
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Did you guys see the Conan Obrien episode where he was talking about having video of the next Chineese rocket launch?
It cuts to these two chineese guys about to vault a third chineese guy who's standing in the middle of this long pole the other two have over their shoulders... then it goes 3...2..1.. 'blast me off into space' in this really bad chineese voice and they spring the guy into the air.
Fuckin hysterical.
- Fariska0
mining information or mining moon rocks?
JazX
(Jul 28 05, 10:58)as you preferr
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as you preferr
Fariska
(Jul 28 05, 11:03)dude, if they would send me I'd live with HAL 9000 for five years if I had to, just let me go, f*ck the Earth...
- Fariska0
Mind to put a hand in front of your mouth when planning to turn him off
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Mind to put a hand in front of your mouth when planning to turn him off
Fariska
(Jul 28 05, 11:17)so I've heard...
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