Space Travel

[Anderson]

We are within a year or two of finding out for sure, after waiting decades. Private ventures like Bezos and Musk might be sooner but I think in 2023 nasa will try to have people circlet noon and the following year land. 55 years after they supposedly did it in 1969. We shall see.
It will be a great I told you so moment for one side or the other.

I half think the Chinese will get there before us all.

 

[Deleted member 122]

If you use a hypergolic fuel with oxygen, no ignition is needed.

It would have been pretty amazeballs if it was all one take but of course it isn't, it's two.

I'm sure you're aware that NASA has a T-minus countdown (which is publicly available information) for every rocket launch. So the second segment could have been timed relatively easily to that (it's still very neat though)

 

[Anderson]

Is NASA 's word acceptable? I will believe photos taken by any other country. Why can Hubble not look?

Has it ever been acceptable?

 

[Anderson]

There is no doubt our knowledge of astrology has improved since Hubble and no doubt the James Web telescope was launched .

There is certainly no doubt that James Webb was launched, Val!

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

Why is it when I picture you and the other Martin I can only see this?



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fITzlPgA0

 

[Declan]

I actually had the chief systems engineer out the other day. The calibration is done on The James Webb on July 12.
He was impressed that I knew all about it.
But I asked him a question and he was unable to answer.
If the Universe is 14 billion years old, how can it be 96 billion light years across. I got a less than stellar tip.

 

[Declan]

Well as soon as he agreed that it is impossible (supposedly) to exceed the speed of light, he was flummoxed.

He had spent years at a high level with NASA without figuring this out.

 

[Declan]

Pye is only an approximation.

What about a GEC 19 inch black and white.

 

[Declan]

Put the pink plastic over the screen. I didn't figure it out til I went to America

 

[Declan]

The Webb telescope isto be completely calibrated on july 12


Valamhics comment.

Same day as the Orange marches

I asked my cousin who worked on building the camera for it if the small impact would damage it and he said definitely not.

The camera was built in Waterford and Dublin. He is a genius too and we discussed the design at a recent funeral.

 

[Declan]

The surface area of a sphere with a radius of 3 = 113. Or 36 Pye. Now see what the surface area is if it is twice as large.

4 pye X 6 squared.
So 4 pye X 6 sq = 452 or 21 pye.

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So you can extrapolate from that that as you double the diameter you increase the surface area by a factor of 4

144 pi.

 

[Declan]

four multiplied by six squared is 144

 

[Declan]

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So 4 pye X 6 sq = 452 or 21 pye.

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No, it is 144 pi.

 

[Declan]

He fled here as he did not not the iq necessary

 

[Declan]

Surely you can hire ukrainian women but remember that you need two of them to lift a round bale as it is heavy.

 

[Declan]

53 years ago and we were supposed to have citieson the moon by now.

 

[Anderson]

53 years ago and we were supposed to have citieson the moon by now.

We have.

 

[Declan]

They are to fly around the moon next year in 2023 so we shall see if the Val Allen Belt will get them.

 

[Declan]

We will find out next year. Too bad Olli is not alive to see it.

 

[Anderson]

Is Earth flat, that is the question we really need to know.