While most of you are on the planet earth, how long does it take to talk to someone elsewhere.
I will start, the next poster types the next number and posts, etc. This simulates time delays to the moon or mars.
How long does it take to get to 100?
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Ok , six round trip communications in about 18 hours. You could be on Jupiter's moon Europa and make six round trips by radio in that time.
Them folks on Europa are so living in our past. (our point of view). :yesnod:
We are the ones living in "real time". :icon_smile_big: --- Everyone in all directions are yesterdays news to us. --So we must be current. :slap:
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Quote from: ws23rt on February 21, 2017, 05:25:39 PM
Them folks on Europa are so living in our past. (our point of view). :yesnod:
We are the ones living in "real time". :icon_smile_big: --- Everyone in all directions are yesterdays news to us. --So we must be current. :slap:
The star Vega is 25 light years away. If the Mopar Guys living on a planet orbiting Vega received the TV commercials about the new 1968 Dodge Charger ( in the fall of 1992) and decided to order one, Chrysler should get that order this fall by radio.
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Vega send chills down my spine. Never owned a Galaxy or a Europa, but either one has to be better than a Vega. I once owned a Satellite and I wish (upon a falling star) that I still had it.
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The data will be flawed. You are exceeding the finger and toe limit our members.
Quote from: DeltaV on February 21, 2017, 09:02:33 PM
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Vega send chills down my spine. Never owned a Galaxy or a Europa, but either one has to be better than a Vega. I once owned a Satellite and I wish (upon a falling star) that I still had it.
There is a DELTA lV rocket , any relation ?
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This is a pain in Uranus.
Quote from: Kern Dog on February 22, 2017, 05:56:00 AM
This is a pain in Uranus.
Ewwwwwwwwwwww.....A klingon.
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Quote from: flyinlow on February 21, 2017, 08:20:04 PM
Quote from: ws23rt on February 21, 2017, 05:25:39 PM
Them folks on Europa are so living in our past. (our point of view). :yesnod:
We are the ones living in "real time". :icon_smile_big: --- Everyone in all directions are yesterdays news to us. --So we must be current. :slap:
The star Vega is 25 light years away. If the Mopar Guys living on a planet orbiting Vega received the TV commercials about the new 1968 Dodge Charger ( in the fall of 1992) and decided to order one, Chrysler should get that order this fall by radio.
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So a confirmation of the order will be sent with the revised options (and cars) that ---can be ordered --today-- earth time. With (perhaps) a deposit required to secure the order understanding that --destination charges-- are subject to change due to the time delay issues with communication.
Note to customer on vega----send -HUGE- deposit with next transmission for order. We will deliver to you what that deposit will cover and that comes with a life time warranty that your local dealer will comply with. :icon_smile_wink:
BTW----22?
23 Your order has been declined.
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Did you see the announcement of finding habitable planets around Trappist-1, ~40 light years away, so their orders are still in transit.
I just read that Trappist-1 is the ultracool star (really! that is what it is called).
I think it is an orange dwarf, which is supposed to be even cooler than red dwarf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrNLLvAokO8&vl=en (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrNLLvAokO8&vl=en)
And yes that craft is propelled by a light bulb with a square piece of tape over it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDUuBWGtpU
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I finally made it to 27. ---And a long journey it was. :cheers:
A hop, skip, and jump to 28
29 Are wormholes allowed?
Just who do you think you are, Einstein? :nana: 30
31, no comparison whatsoever, just trying to get ahead. I thought if allowed, I could jump to 131 :nana:
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Do you think you're fast enough?
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Isn't the universe just one big turntable?
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36, while we are waiting, can we play ping pong? Ping
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Quote from: flyinlow on February 21, 2017, 10:25:11 PM
Quote from: DeltaV on February 21, 2017, 09:02:33 PM
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Vega send chills down my spine. Never owned a Galaxy or a Europa, but either one has to be better than a Vega. I once owned a Satellite and I wish (upon a falling star) that I still had it.
There is a DELTA lV rocket , any relation ?
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I noticed we should be 1 ahead of the actual post number. 1 post didn't get counted.
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We should be one ahead of actual post number. One post didn't get counted.
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Quote from: DeltaV on February 25, 2017, 07:56:56 PM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Quote from: flyinlow on February 21, 2017, 10:25:11 PM
Quote from: DeltaV on February 21, 2017, 09:02:33 PM
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Vega send chills down my spine. Never owned a Galaxy or a Europa, but either one has to be better than a Vega. I once owned a Satellite and I wish (upon a falling star) that I still had it.
There is a DELTA lV rocket , any relation ?
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My mistake, I read it as Delta 5 , not Delta Vee.
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Remember what Blondie told us about the man from Mars in her song Rapture?
https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g
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the amount of time this has taken you could of gone to the moon and would be now waiting for the helicopter after splashdown :rofl:
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The number of nanoseconds that anyone believed GM would keep Saturn alive as a "quality-based" product.
50, states ,until P.R. pulls the trigger....new flags.
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what about Hawaii :scratchchin:
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I just got word from the dealership near star vega. My order for a new dodge car can't be filled . They sold all they could get from their contact here.
It's just as well cause all they could get were orange ones with damage.--oops They said it seems that some folks found all the good ones in barns or some such excuse.
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55 I'm still on hold :popcrn: - or is that before hold? Maybe he just put the hand down :lol:.
Quote from: ws23rt on February 26, 2017, 10:34:02 PM
I just got word from the dealership near star vega. My order for a new dodge car can't be filled . They sold all they could get from their contact here.
It's just as well cause all they could get were orange ones with damage.--oops They said it seems that some folks found all the good ones in barns or some such excuse.
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That's 56 to you earthlings out there.
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I must be lost in space
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I am lost in time.
It's all relative, generally.
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61 Remember the old flip communicators?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicator_(Star_Trek)#/media/File:20090704-1971_StarTrekTOSCommunicatorReplica.jpg]]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicator_(Star_Trek)#/media/File:20090704-1971_StarTrekTOSCommunicatorReplica.jpg (//http://)
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Time is passing at 60 sec. per min.
Let's all drive our cars as fast as we can (get away with) and -there by- slow our aging.
Those that are left behind will see that they age faster than us. (their view point).
When we come back from a drive we will be younger than those that stayed at home.
The precision clocks on space travel projects show this to be true and real. :2thumbs:
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inspired plan.
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Route 66
I have spent have spent about 3 of my 59 years off the planet, going faster than our Chargers can go. I should be younger.... Not what I see in the mirror. :brickwall:
I do like the way you think though.
Quote from: ws23rt on March 01, 2017, 09:17:24 PM
Time is passing at 60 sec. per min.
Let's all drive our cars as fast as we can (get away with) and -there by- slow our aging.
Those that are left behind will see that they age faster than us. (their view point).
When we come back from a drive we will be younger than those that stayed at home.
The precision clocks on space travel projects show this to be true and real. :2thumbs:
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You would need to modify your Charger....a lot. Even with atomic clocks you need to be going over 600 mph to be able to measure time slowing (known as time dilation). https://www.quora.com/How-fast-do-I-have-to-go-to-slow-down-time (https://www.quora.com/How-fast-do-I-have-to-go-to-slow-down-time)
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Time is not absolute.
Quote from: alfaitalia on March 02, 2017, 07:34:30 AM
Quote from: ws23rt on March 01, 2017, 09:17:24 PM
Time is passing at 60 sec. per min.
Let's all drive our cars as fast as we can (get away with) and -there by- slow our aging.
Those that are left behind will see that they age faster than us. (their view point).
When we come back from a drive we will be younger than those that stayed at home.
The precision clocks on space travel projects show this to be true and real. :2thumbs:
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You would need to modify your Charger....a lot. Even with atomic clocks you need to be going over 600 mph to be able to measure time slowing (known as time dilation). https://www.quora.com/How-fast-do-I-have-to-go-to-slow-down-time (https://www.quora.com/How-fast-do-I-have-to-go-to-slow-down-time)
Tell THAT to my high school friend who used to speed just because it slowed down time......He went into banking... :nana:
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I figure that I am a couple of nano seconds younger than the general public.
This forum is made mostly of folks like me (we went fast a few times) and we are likely to be in the future a bit when compared to the gen public.
They may catch up to us and good luck to all that I see in my mirror.
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Do I get a prize for being number 69 in this quest ;)
It was a very good year ---48 years ago :slap:
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One year before I can retire...IF I am lucky.
Dam, I wanted 73.
Oh well ,only Natcho can tell the difference between a 73 and a
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So the Earths rotation speed at 40* N. latitude ( average latitude of Dodge Charger forum members I am guessing ?) is about 690 MPH. The Earths orbital speed around the Sun is about 70,000 MPH
How much younger do I get to be for these speeds?
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Not much
If I was driving at about 1000mph on the equator from west to east. would I almost be standing still?
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Quote from: DeltaV on March 02, 2017, 09:13:14 PM
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One year before I can retire...IF I am lucky.
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Not many here work past 65...only those that want/have too. I'm aiming to retire around 60 (10 years to go!) and play with cars and bikes till I'm planted as long my pensions/investment go ok....and your new leader does not start something that kills us all well before then...LOL. Don't reply to that part of this post or thread will be locked for being political by the post Nazis! Why don't we have a political post section.....do on the other three car forums I'm on...always great fun!!
Quote from: ws23rt on March 02, 2017, 11:23:33 PM
If I was driving at about 1000mph on the equator from west to east. would I almost be standing still?
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No....even if you matched the Earths speed to be stationary in relation to the planets spin, the planet itself chugs along at about 67,000mpg around the sun (a year for one lap obviously). Then the Solar system is nipping along at about 515,000mph (but even at that speed will take about 230 million years just to do one lap of the Milky way !!!) then there the Milky way itself (our galaxy) which is travelling though the universe is a fairly impressive 1.3 million mph. So no you are certainly not standing still!!
Those sizes and speeds take some getting your head around.....To quote the late, great Douglas Adams "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts
compared to space."
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The issue of time and velocity and celestial rotations and orbits has shown me something I do not understand. Maybe one of you physics folks can explain this to me.
For time to be measured, we need to have paths that intersect in space and time. Therefore, if two people travel from point A to point B, is the one that stays younger, the one who travels the farthest (fastest is implied by the same time) to get to point B?
PS. 515,000 is some impressive miles per gallon.
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 03, 2017, 06:37:13 AM
81.0000000000, 81.00000008565
The issue of time and velocity and celestial rotations and orbits has shown me something I do not understand. Maybe one of you physics folks can explain this to me.
For time to be measured, we need to have paths that intersect in space and time. Therefore, if two people travel from point A to point B, is the one that stays younger, the one who travels the farthest (fastest is implied by the same time) to get to point B?
PS. 515,000 is some impressive miles per gallon.
Oops...typo...corrected it!
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 03, 2017, 06:37:13 AM
81.0000000000, 81.00000008565
The issue of time and velocity and celestial rotations and orbits has shown me something I do not understand. Maybe one of you physics folks can explain this to me.
For time to be measured, we need to have paths that intersect in space and time. Therefore, if two people travel from point A to point B, is the one that stays younger, the one who travels the farthest (fastest is implied by the same time) to get to point B?
PS. 515,000 is some impressive miles per gallon.
Which one stays younger is "relative" ;) it depends on the/who's point of view.
The paths of the two travelers need not intersect. But a starting point for reference is needed.
The one that gets to point B first will "appear" to be younger from the slower travelers view point. (until they arrive).
82.0000000000 :nana:
Quote from: alfaitalia on March 03, 2017, 06:34:19 AM
Quote from: ws23rt on March 02, 2017, 11:23:33 PM
If I was driving at about 1000mph on the equator from west to east. would I almost be standing still?
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No....even if you matched the Earths speed to be stationary in relation to the planets spin, the planet itself chugs along at about 67,000mpg around the sun (a year for one lap obviously). Then the Solar system is nipping along at about 515,000mph (but even at that speed will take about 230 million years just to do one lap of the Milky way !!!) then there the Milky way itself (our galaxy) which is travelling though the universe is a fairly impressive 1.3 million mph. So no you are certainly not standing still!!
Those sizes and speeds take some getting your head around.....To quote the late, great Douglas Adams "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts
compared to space."
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I like the quote from - Douglas Adams- :2thumbs: --- And as big as it is (what we can see these days is in fact microscopic compared to what was recently found.
Not long ago researchers focused a long (exposure) view on an apparently empty place in the sky with the latest equipment.
What came into view was a sea of what look like stars. They are indeed galaxys and in numbers like the stars we find so numerous.
And don't forget that -that view- was a tiny spot in the sky.
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SO your saying that even if I can't move fast enough to get some of the benefit of relativity, that I will look younger if I keep moving.
Are you sure it isn't just that as we get older, we have a harder time focusing on a moving target? :rofl:
This one is supposed to be 86. How hard can it be to count to 100?
Quote from: JB400 on March 03, 2017, 06:18:28 PM
This one is supposed to be 86. How hard can it be to count to 100?
Thanks--the truth is in the rules about this game ::)
BTW this might stir our pot some. ;)
https://www.reference.com/science/light-always-travel-light-speed-4d1f27374f6d4b37?qo=cdpArticles
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88 Thanks too.
I was in student thesis proposal presentations today and the last one ended his talk with "I hope my hypothesis comes true"
Don't we all.
89 Not a problem. :cheers: Just didn't want to get the train derailed, or the ship off course and hit an iceberg.
The whole point of going fast is to stall time while those around you age.
90 Just tinkered a bit with the Charger - Even without driving it super fast, I feel younger. :lol:
Quote from: JB400 on March 03, 2017, 06:18:28 PM
This one is supposed to be 86. How hard can it be to count to 100?
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Not hard for most of us. I picked 100 or fifty round trips like medium length phone conversation might be. The time used up by logging on and posting at your convenience would fill in for the time radio waves take to get from planet to planet. It looks like it will take about two weeks to make 50 round trip communications. This would work for Earth to Uranus , but not Earth to Pluto or farther.
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 03, 2017, 08:51:10 PM
90 Just tinkered a bit with the Charger - Even without driving it super fast, I feel younger. :lol:
I have found my Chargers to be time machines too.
Quote from: ws23rt on March 02, 2017, 11:23:33 PM
If I was driving at about 1000mph on the equator from west to east. would I almost be standing still?
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Going east to west would work better. Hence the phrase "Go west young man" By about 60* latitude an airliner going west can keep up with the Sun (Earths rotation) Closer to the poles you can make time go backwards , jumping from time zone to time zone faster than the earth spins.
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Time seems to be slowing down as we approach the number 100 :scratchchin: Hold on --it may be a black hole we are being led into. :slap:
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98 Wanna find out what's on the other side :scratchchin: It might turn out to be a wormhole instead and we end up back at the beginning.
99 woooo!
Quote from: flyinlow on February 20, 2017, 05:38:56 PM
While most of you are on the planet earth, how long does it take to talk to someone elsewhere.
I will start, the next poster types the next number and posts, etc. This simulates time delays to the moon or mars.
How long does it take to get to 100?
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It looks like "ground hog day" to me from here :lol: BTW how long did this take in earth time --or in dog years-? :cheers:
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It took about 13 days.
So men are sometimes capable of quick ,concise conversations. If your Holley equipped space ship was flooded out on Neptune and you needed to tell Houston we have a problem and have to make a 50 round trip conversation on how to fix the problem ,you could do this before you run out of supplies.
Now a ship full of women....
My order is is---
BTW---103 ?
Now a ship full of women....
We are now in uncharted territory.
The number of this post is--negative or positive. Or not. :slap:
Better keep an eye out for anything suspicious. You never know what we might run into.
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108 open the gate
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Oops
https://youtu.be/dgOGqWHtjP0
Quote from: DeltaV on March 07, 2017, 10:33:00 PM
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Oops
https://youtu.be/dgOGqWHtjP0
The invented dramas are just that--invented by us--.
Why do we tend to make the "others" out to be evil. :scratchchin: The boogy man is us maybe? :nana:
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Quote from: ws23rt on March 07, 2017, 10:48:58 PM
Quote from: DeltaV on March 07, 2017, 10:33:00 PM
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Oops
https://youtu.be/dgOGqWHtjP0
The invented dramas are just that--invented by us--.
Why do we tend to make the "others" out to be evil. :scratchchin: The boogy man is us maybe? :nana:
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"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Pogo
I saw the movie -Arrival-- a few days back. The "martains"/aliens were like squids in appearance and became exasperated with the meet up.
They said they would be back in a few thousand years to try again. :slap:
Comunicating with time delay issues is made small with this story.
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Save time in a bottle. Jim Croce had a good idea!
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A vacation on mars?--A day/time delay off?
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123 mars here we come!
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Time-share condominiums on Phobos?
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I am exiting the ecliptic.
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Participation is waning
130 It is just such a long delay time.
131 Takes a little longer now to get to the next restroom.
132 these have more digits
133 I still have all mine. How many do aliens have?
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135 Are we nearing the outer parts of the solar system?
136 I hope so but I think not. I think the distances and times increase as we go out.
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This number is the sum of five consecutive prime numbers (19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37).
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I have nothing for this number. :slap: :lol:----No wait--It comes just before the next one.
Also it is the only one like it known to exist. :2thumbs:---One of one--( I wonder what color it is?)
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141 Lumen is a dark C-type, rocky asteroid orbiting in the Asteroid belt.
142 from Hap McSween's book: On a September morning in 1886, several meteorites fell near the village of Novo Urei in the Krasnoslobodsk district of Russia. .... One of the stones was soon recovered by local peasants, where- upon it was broken apart and eaten....
Quote from: ws23rt on March 21, 2017, 06:40:04 PM
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I have nothing for this number. :slap: :lol:----No wait--It comes just before the next one.
Also it is the only one like it known to exist. :2thumbs:---One of one--( I wonder what color it is?)
appears to be T9 black
143 , the sum of seven prime numbers 11+13+17+19+23+29+31 , the atomic number of Unquadtrium .... which is what parts at the Mopar Nats. swap meet must be made of.
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This is a comfortable number from grade school.--Sq In. in one sq. ft.--(they don't use feet for measure on Mars-right?)
Glad to be back home with a number that feels like milk and cookies.
145 The number of reasons we should continue this thread
Quote from: ws23rt on March 21, 2017, 09:03:30 PM
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This is a comfortable number from grade school.--Sq In. in one sq. ft.--(they don't use feet for measure on Mars-right?)
Glad to be back home with a number that feels like milk and cookies.
146 Your post brought back this memory....NASA's metric confusion in 1999 and the loss of a Mars orbiter --- one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operation... Not a good time for us.
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 22, 2017, 06:06:49 PM
Quote from: ws23rt on March 21, 2017, 09:03:30 PM
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This is a comfortable number from grade school.--Sq In. in one sq. ft.--(they don't use feet for measure on Mars-right?)
Glad to be back home with a number that feels like milk and cookies.
146 Your post brought back this memory....NASA's metric confusion in 1999 and the loss of a Mars orbiter --- one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operation... Not a good time for us.
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oops. I bet they hate when that happens :slap:
communicating with martains ! easy , just use a smartphone :lol:
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,128030.0.html
thought it was funny :lol: :leaving: carry on as you were :yesnod: :cheers:
sorry for the hijack (flyinlow) :cheers:
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I don't feel hijack. :cheers:
The original post objective was 100. Now we are just Boldly Going Where No Tread Has Gone Before.
149 by the way.
150 So we are in the extended mission!!!!!
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as in 152 mph driving my friend's 1986 Porsche 930.
(he was with me).
Yeah, young and dumb.
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This number might have a meaning for me but brain clutter is blocking what it is. :brickwall: :lol:
I'll get back on this--I promise.
In the mean time I look forward to the number 666. You folks have pleanty of notice on this :lol:
Mars--(it has been said) is the place where the number 6 was born.---(trust me :icon_smile_wink:)
Let's just let that digest --and we have all the --TIME--- that ever -was- to prepare for the final answer.
The Hyades Cluster is 153 light years away. Was that it?
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so I looked up hyades, neat stuff, then looked to see what was at 155 ly. there is a RED DWARF (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/index.cfm (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/index.cfm)) there with an exoplanet. THey say the farthese exoplanet to be directly imaged by anyone.
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 26, 2017, 05:59:47 PM
so I looked up hyades, neat stuff, then looked to see what was at 155 ly. there is a RED DWARF (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/index.cfm (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/index.cfm)) there with an exoplanet. THey say the farthese exoplanet to be directly imaged by anyone.
And your number to speak with is?? :slap:
Hint--This is 156 :nana:
Speaking of a light year. About six trillion miles.
About 600,000 1st, 2nd and 3rd. gen. Chargers built. Lets say they traveled an average of 100,000 miles during their service life (less than one light second). Their combined travel would be about one percent of a light year.
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159 Did I forget to put a number in my last post? Well I am interested in something known as the missing sulfur problem. Apparently there is missing sulfur in dense molecular clouds.
On the way home from a swap meet we stopped by White Castles and loaded up on cheeseburgers . Today there is a dense molecular cloud near me and sulfur has been detected.
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161 aye aye sir!
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 26, 2017, 08:30:29 PM
161 aye aye sir!
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Omg--as my daughter used to say (back in (that day))
Please tell me that it is not so that "sulfur" is back. We are not done with cabon yet.--eek
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163 Parsecs =
531.635 light years
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165 Was this lost in space? :popcrn:
166, closer to :shruggy:.
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Every number means something to someone. This one is for those.
---Time-?? will tell where it fits with the other numbers.
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New images of the Juno flyover
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-jupiter-images-nasa-juno-2017-3/?hl=1&noRedirect=1/#amateur-astronomers-have-also-been-redeveloping-older-juno-images-these-jovian-cloud-top-images-all-came-from-the-probes-fourth-flyby-on-february-2-7
Dam, I thought Ohio weather was bad.
Great pics. !
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Like the Chrysler 170 cubic inch slant six. We should send one to Mars.
171 What are you planning on using for fuel? :popcrn:
Quote from: JB400 on March 31, 2017, 02:59:54 PM
171 What are you planning on using for fuel? :popcrn:
Oxygen from the iron oxide soil for fuel.
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Meanwhile,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-news-horizons-spacecraft-just-201209714.html
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You "Martians" out there know all know about this number. If you stay silent about it -that clue speaks volumes.
Speak up or say nothing.- Either way you are busted.--
Let's have lunch and chat about earthlings. :eek2:
176 I'd rather talk about what's on Venus :drool5:
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I have been seeking the "venus mons" from an early age.
My quest will end with my demise.
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179 We must be making our way through the asteroid belt.
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Did we get out of the asteroid belt ok?
181 A little battered and bruised, but I think we're all ok.
182 still
183, the Easter Paradox.
If God is all powerful , can He create an Asteroid so big that He himself can not move it?
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187 L excesses in extra terrestrial amino acids from meteorites.
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Took the '73 to see Fate of the Furious Sunday night at the Drive In. Vin Diesel drove a nice 71 GTX . Got trashed of course.
An expert walked by and asked about my 1967 Challenger. He told me about the benefits of dual nitrous. I thanked him for his input, but said with that much power the car might hit 189. :rofl:
Too much for me.
or 190
Quote from: flyinlow on April 25, 2017, 07:04:13 PM
An expert walked by and asked about my 1967 Challenger. He told me about the benefits of dual nitrous. I thanked him for his input, but said with that much power the car might hit 189. :rofl:
I know nothing about nitrous so thanks for the pointer
191
Should of told him about your flux compacitor that kicks in at 88 mph.
192
MOA-2007-BLG-192L is a low-mass red dwarf star or brown dwarf hosting an Earth-sized planet, approximately 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius
193
194 - bad news from NASA - no money my way.
195
Budget cuts again :brickwall:
196 We keep marching forward. So much could be done given the right rocket ship.
197
Maybe Elon Musk will make us the right rocket ship.
198 Times ticking on when it's needed.
199 lost x focus
200
201 time keeps on slipping into the future
202
How long till the past catches up with us?
203
Is time the greatest riddle?
204 Riddle me this, riddle me that...
205
Must be having radio interference. Did a star go supernova?
206
We must be catching up with Voyager
Geez, on may 22 I got on a plane and left the country, returned just over a week ago. Long delay.
208 Welcome back :cheers:
209 Thanks, saw a neat talk today about ages of craters on the moon and on some asteroids related to the lunar cataclysm.
210
211 How many of us are there on this space craft?
212
On this page only 5, who's in charge?
213 Not me. I am on the intercom from the Head.
214
Should we draw straws?
215 Oenone is a main belt asteroid
216
217 I just found a tribble.
216
Sorry, wrong direction ...
218
219 Nothing wrong with a u turn. Maybe, we should consider turning around and heading home.
220 the future's so bright I gotta wear shades
221
It's going to be a long trip. Let's play cards to pass the time. If you deal 2 cards from a single deck of 52 cards, you have a 1 in 221 chance of getting 2 aces.
222.00000000001
223 Probably already discussed, I was wondering about the 8 tracks that have been run on voyager to keep it warm. I somehow thought they were playing music, but I now suspect the 8 tracks are the memory for the three dual redundant computers.
224 Didn't know about any 8 tracks. Did know about the golden records.
225
...like the timeless slant six
226
227
Have we found out yet whether they're green??
228
The "color" of aliens depends on the point of view as well as the particular spectrum of light being reflected back to the eyes of the viewer. :slap:
Hi Fred. :cheers:
229
So are you saying that nothing is what it seems? In which case.......have we established anything?
Hi Bruce. :wave:
Quote from: Fred on September 27, 2017, 07:26:49 PM
229
So are you saying that nothing it what is seems? In which case.......have we established anything?
Hi Bruce. :wave:
230
Yep---We are two aliens that have been orbiting --something--- for a while. It makes my day to wave at you as our orbits pass. :2thumbs:
High Fred. :icon_smile_wink:
231
Well in that case lets hope our orbits pass each other more often.
On the other hand we could just come back down to Earth and wave at it other across our two great continents.
232 Ran across this today when looking for information on orange glass. If you want to hear some enthusiasm - Jack Schmidt finds it about 1:45 into the video.
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17v.1452348.mpg (https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17v.1452348.mpg)
233
234
It just occurred to me.......am I not in the same spaceship as the rest of you?
235
Out for a space walk?
Well I guess that could explain ws23rt's comment and I quote...... "It makes my day to wave at you as our orbits pass".
237 Has anyone heard any more about the returned 'mars mission crew' that were released on Mauna Loa on Sept 17th?
238 Now that you mention it......NO.
239
is the atomic mass number of the most common isotope of plutonium.
240 My son's car just passed 225900 miles, he is inside the close approach of the moon's orbit.
241 I took off so fast I sped right past it. Am now making a U-turn and will hopefully land safely. I have a picnic basket in the boot.
242 Well turn around quick. My son just took me to an autocross. They ran their SAE car there for fun and did lots of turns. We ran nothing, but it was fun.
243
I guess I'm still running around in circles :P
244
XH29N0G ..........I turned around but missed the moon exit sign and now I'm lost. Can someone please send up some flares.
Quote from: JB400 on October 01, 2017, 03:15:41 PM
243
I guess I'm still running around in circles :P
Why are you just guessing??
245
I guess I could stop and see which direction I'm going, then I'd know. :slap:
246 That would be what I would do!
247 OK. but
"Can someone please send up some flares" strikes me as a little like "does a tree make a sound if it falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it".
Also learned last week about the astronauts seeing flashes on the dark side of the moon (from meteorite impacts) and now they are using the time stamps of the transcripts in combination with the seismic arrays that were there to get even better information about the structure.
Quote from: Fred on October 01, 2017, 08:05:43 PM
244
XH29N0G ..........I turned around but missed the moon exit sign and now I'm lost. Can someone please send up some flares.
Quote from: JB400 on October 01, 2017, 09:07:53 PM
245
I guess I could stop and see which direction I'm going, then I'd know. :slap:
248
There is no such thing as stopping out here. And all directions are the same. This is called- REALLY lost in space. ;)
249
When's the next comet come through? I'll see if it'll stop so I can catch a ride back.
250 But are you really lost if you know where you are?
251
Since we are always moving we are never where we were.
If we feel (in the seat of the pants) that we are moving forward. Just turn the -seat- around and it will feel like deceleration. It is the same.
Deceleration is a myth. Acceleration is all we have to work with.
252 Well don't push down to hard on the peddle or you may get there sooner than you would like! :icon_smile_big:
253
The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.
254
255
I was listening for what can't be heard from JB400 -at-- 254. Nothing is lost. Only things to be found.
257 (or 8?) We are lost in part because of a time warp. Did you see the nobel prize went to people who measured gravitational waves (I guess wiggles) in the space time continuum.
I think we should start this page (11) at 251 not 249, but I also think the count has us with one less than starting there, so I don't know............ :lol:
I think I've reached the Twilight Zone! :coocoo:
259
:smilielol:
260
(I borrowed this pic from another thread.....I hope whoever posted it doesn't mind)
261
262 whew
263 What happened??
264 Lost in the vacuum of inner space
265 What are you doing in there? And do you need rescuing?
266 just whew, Friday, but now you have me wondering if it is Saturday in space.
267 More to the point.......what is it in outer space?
And how do I get my outer space back into my inner space or is it the other way around. Or have I just run out of space.
And does anyone know what I'm talking about or are we on different planets?
268 What is in outer space? OOOOOh I think the answer is mostly 'Dark matter' (which somehow sounds sinister) is in outer space.
269
What is -IN- "outer space"?---Dark matter as well as -everything else--yes?? :shruggy:
If that is the case one could infer that since -everything- is in "outer space" there is nothing left over to occupy an "inner space".
That could/would intern imply that "inner space" must not exist because a -space- is defined by its size/dimensions measured against stuff that occupies the space.
No stuff to define "inner space" proves that it does not exist. (There is NO room for NO stuff).
Now, why in the world ;) do we use the term "outer space" when "inner space" cannot exist. :slap:
270......of course "Inner Space" exists..I've seen it...here it is!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/)
271 So, now that we are all cognitive of DARK MATTER should we perhaps turn our minds to GREY MATTER?
Does it for instance come in black or white or even various shades of grey? Does it even matter?
272 I thought grey comes in at least 50 shades, maybe 51.
It must matter, or we wouldn't be discussing it. Maybe, I have a lot of blank space.
273 Well aren't you on the ball. You're positively spinning off your axis! Hope you land on the Milky way so that you can slide safely back down to Earth. ;D
274 If I spun off my axis, and landed on a ball called Earth, than what planet did I fall off of? I wonder if Taylor Swift would show me how to draw a blank?
275
I wouldn't know.
I wouldn't know.
276 I don't know either. I'll go back to my corner :P
277 Do you know how to get there? Does your spaceship come with sat nav?
Quote from: alfaitalia on October 08, 2017, 04:40:44 PM
270......of course "Inner Space" exists..I've seen it...here it is!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/)
Well I never!
279
280 Isn't it amazing how the mind knows what day it is when you wake up in the morning?
I wonder if it's the same for Martians.
281
All I think I know when I wake up is it is -today- again. Been waiting for tomorrow all my life. :brickwall:
Ok we can't get to tomorrow but how about this..........
When a dog tries chasing it's tail, he is going backwards. So if he catches it, does that take him back to yesterday??
283 Do dog's really go backwards when chasing their tails? Hey I had an email sent to me today (see pic below) Do you think we could propose something :smilielol: I think we have demonstrate a commitment to the martian communication stuff and see some really great ideas. :lol:
284 Well his tail is at the back so it stands to reason that in order to get to it he would have to go backwards. :scratchchin:
If he went forward...... he'd be heading for some other dogs tail. Wouldn't he?
285 :lol: ok you got me with that argument.
286 :2thumbs:
Unlike the scholars of the past..........one only has to pretend these days to know what one is talking about to get away with it. :icon_smile_big:
287
It stands to reason that a dog chasing his tail is neither going forward nor going backward.
288
A tail-chasing dog is orbiting.-- Forever trying to get where he want's to go but can't get away from where he has been to get there.
Do Martians have something they chase like we and our pets do?
Quote from: JB400 on October 15, 2017, 03:41:24 PM
287
It stands to reason that a dog chasing his tail is neither going forward nor going backward.
Don't be difficult! :icon_smile_big:
Quote from: ws23rt on October 15, 2017, 06:34:07 PM
288
A tail-chasing dog is orbiting.-- Forever trying to get where he want's to go but can't get away from where he has been to get there.
Not if he chases the tail in front! :icon_smile_big:
Quote from: ws23rt on October 15, 2017, 06:34:07 PM
288
Do Martians have something they chase like we and our pets do?
Yeah........a decent suntan to hide that greeness! :smilielol:
291
292
There's been talk that Nasa needs to establish a government on Mars. Any idea which one we should choose?
293
Quote from: JB400 on October 17, 2017, 07:47:12 PM
292
There's been talk that Nasa needs to establish a government on Mars. Any idea which one we should choose?
294 I say send them all..they're not doing us any good on Earth!
295
Better put your hard hat on:
https://gizmodo.com/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-in-1819485184
295 Thanks for the warning. And for helping me learn the word taikonaut.
296
Well it better not land on my head!
297
299
recalibrating
300 recalibrated -- maybe one more time?
301 recollecting thoughts on how to recalibrate the recalibrated.
303 I think we need to start the pages at 1,6,1,6,.... so hopefully this works.
303 squared
204? So do we start on 0 and 5?
305 couldn't we just continue on from 13?
206??
If we are communicating with Martians maybe we should try their post numbering system to stay on track. :scratchchin:
307
302 has disappeared into thin air. And the rest seem to have taken leave of their senses! Maybe the Martians have penetrated their minds and stolen the contents thus leaving them empty headed!
309 I think this is where I am. As buckaroo bonsai says. No matter where you go you go, there you are.
Quote from: XH29N0G on October 22, 2017, 06:39:39 PM
309 I think this is where I am. As buckaroo bonsai says. No matter where you go you go, there you are.
310 Well the sooner you come back come back......the better. :icon_smile_big:
311 Haha and not a haha wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha#/media/File:Ha_ha_wall_diagram.jpg
312 ba ba! No ha ha is going to contain us.....not if we can help it!
312 Trying to steer us through the asteroid belt that we seem to have entered. A lot of battered minds
313 You must have been successful as it seems the fog has cleared from our brains. I know this to be a fact because we have all gone back and corrected out post numbers.
We're back on track.
314.5 Does this go back to post 22/23 when the order was declined? We start counting on 1's right, so the top one on this page should be 301? :smilielol:
315 Ok here's what I want to know...... are we really cruising around looking for Martians or just for a spot to have a picnic?
316
I thought we were looking for signs of intelligent life. Is anyone having any luck? Maybe, we do need to stop for lunch.
317 Did anyone remember to bring along a hamper? I've got a six pack on ice.
318 Intelligent life? Don't look at me.
319 Where should we look? We need to turn off auto pilot and take control.
320 Yeah...and once we have control, we need to get going.
See.........this is what happens when you're out in space too long. You start replying to your own replies. :coocoo:
321 The outer space movies where someone starts talking to themselves don't usually end well.
322 Especially if nobody is watching where we're going.
323 What about the rear view.......... do we need to see what's catching up?
324
Catching up??
If one is going -way- fast (kinda like in a Hemi car on earth :o) The -image- in the rear view may not be able to keep up with our mirror moving forward and nothing will be seen.
325 But there's no stopping that winged chariot from catching up......... no matter how fast we go. :eek2:
326 Can we go into hyper sleep?
327 How about we just do a U-turn and come home.
328
Can't we just circumnavigate back home?
329 Wouldn't a U-turn be faster? I'm in a hurry!
330
If we turn around and go back too fast we may end up in yesterday.
331 That might be a good thing. Then we can start over.
332 If were good with timing, we can get the car of our dreams. If not, we get eaten by some big lizard.
333 Don't want to see what the future holds?
334 I guess everyone turned around and went home. Or, maybe, I'm now lost in space :popcrn:
335 I got lost in the other side of the ship.
336
I got lost a long time ago in left field. :icon_smile_wink: Left field is full of folks like me (I've been told) but the field/space is so great I never see anyone else. Maybe I was duped by a silly martian? Is "left field" a myth? :slap:
I remember left field. And I vaguely remember who put me there. :icon_smile_big: Some smart arse! Actually he put a lot of us out there as I recall. For some reason he thought that's where we all belonged.
In fact I believe that's where some of us first met. :2thumbs: So no............it's not a myth............it's really out there.
338
I thought you might remember that "martian" :lol: he was entertaining.
I believe left field does exist.---I like it there.
Maybe it is the place between heaven and earth to hang till--till?? Excuse me while I contact my pet martian for more information.
:cheers: Fred
339 I didn't just get put out in left field, I got banished there. :lol: He ripped almost everything I said apart.
340 Yes I remember........I think he liked you best. :smilielol:
He was entertaining yes BUT he was mean! :eek2:
Then again I suppose us all egging him on didn't help. I know I tried my best. :lol:
We really managed to bring out the worst in him. :icon_smile_big:
I wonder what happened to him? Maybe he's orbiting looking for us. If we're not careful we may yet encounter him and once again be subjected to his wrath.
Another good reason for turning the ship around and heading for home.
341
Earth is alive!!!: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/the-changing-colors-of-our-living-planet
342 Well that is a relief!
343
344 the martians have been creating problems for me.
345 Do tell :popcrn: :popcrn: :popcrn:
346 Problems...fights over credit for ideas about and work with martians. Credit isn't mine, but the person who should get is isn't. Therein is the problem.
347 They're on the dark side of the moon. Wait until they see the light.
348 Is that Martian talk or just plain double dutch? ? ? ? ? ? ? :shruggy:
I'm not following any of this. Maybe I need to go to the butchers and buy myself a kilo of brains! Mine seems to be stuck in neutral. :scratchchin:
349 Brains! I thought he said trains ...
340 Are Martians using trains now?
351 I don't know, but I think we're getting on track.
352 :lol:
353
Does that mean we're just following someone else than?
354
Another quiet day on Mars
355 We better enjoy it; forecast for tomorrow includes dust devils
356 If we stay outdoors will we be covered in green?
What colour is the dust on Mars?
357 Will we turn green if we stay inside?
Red
358 there's a chance we won't if we keep our space suits on.
The Opportunity Rover has lasted more than 359 weeks longer then they ever planed. I want to buy car from JPL.
My Charger has lasted more than 360 months longer than Chrysler ever thought it would. Do you think it would do well on Mars?
361 imagine you will have to adjust the jets to compensate for lower surface pressure and lower atmospheric oxygen and I guess temperature. I wonder how much horsepower we would get under those conditions if it would run at all.
We would also have to clear it with the planetary protection officer.
362
Longer time between transmissions
363
That speed limit of light is a killer when someone wants to get anywhere. The faster you go the longer it takes to go faster.
But I guess that would just be a --point of view-- :slap:
364 So would going slower get you there faster?
365 Did we have to make a turn somewhere?
366 Why do you ask?
367
Just wandering if I need to turn off my turn signal. ;D
368
Just like Voyager, sending out radio signals, looking for a reply. :P
37 Have we lost the mother ship and are now floating aimlessly about?
370 So now we have to look out for the mother ship and the Chinese space station that's going to crash to Earth this year?
371 Should we make that our new years resolution?
372 Does anyone ever stick to those?
373
374
I found the solution to our problem. Well, Nasa did anyway.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/think-mountain-times-confusing-try-living-martian-time-180967799/
375 How so?
376
We all just need to get back in time with each other. That's all. Less time delays between responses
377
I sometimes climb into the hibernation pod for a nap.
This traveling through time stuff can be tedious when the distance traveled is great.
The older we get the faster we get older.
378 Just don't look back!
379 For some reason your post made me think of a line in Pope that used the word 'mazy' I then thought to myself, Did he really use that word? What did it mean? Was it being lost in a maze? So I looked it up.
It ends up at the word 'solipsistic' as someone who practices 'solipsism', which I learned from Wikipedia is "the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist." This whole thing has plagued me since sometime in my teens and I cannot figure it out, but now, more than 30 years later, I have a word.
what is the time delay doing to us? :eek2:
380
I oy gt hf yr msg. Cud y rpt msg?
381 I was thinking about it now that i know what it is, and it doesn't make sense that my mind would create all of this conflicting stuff. therefore more than just my mind must exist. The thought progressed well beyond that on the walk in to work, but it got stuck with the issue of how the universe came to be and might end, and then went to the issue of parallel or serial universes. Anyway, I made it to work and forgot that thread of thoughts until now. I know a little cosmic granola, but I can neither describe nor fix one movement of my mind. Funny how that is. Can you?
382 They just put a tesla roadster in space???? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/this-is-what-a-tesla-roadster-looks-like-floating-through-space.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/this-is-what-a-tesla-roadster-looks-like-floating-through-space.html)
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/2/6/16981856/space-x-tesla-falcon-heavy-live-stream-mars (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/2/6/16981856/space-x-tesla-falcon-heavy-live-stream-mars)
383 Magnum :drool5:
Just another piece of junk the home planet is throwing at us. I wonder if it comes with a solar powered battery charger to charge it? We can take turns driving instead of fighting over it if they did.
CCCLXXXIV
385 I just spent about 30 seconds trying to figure out what CCCLXXXIV meant :P
386
Has anyone spotted the mother ship that picked up Marshall Applewhite in 1997?
387 I'm still looking for the Tesla. I want the Starman's autograph.
388
Maybe Elon Musk's next dramatic feat will be to launch a recovery vehicle to retrieve the Tesla and land it in front of the National Air and Space Museum.
389
We can now track Starman:
http://www.whereisroadster.com/charts.html
390 The question is...do we want to??
391 Do we want to get run over by Starman?
392
392.5 + .5
The sky is falling!!!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
394
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiangong-1-china-apos-control-123925937.html
:icon_smile_big:
395
SHIT!
396 (curious about the shit)
397
:icon_smile_big:
398
Duck and cover---Raining scrap metal could make for a bad day. :popcrn:
399
All that junk they're sending up there will come back down someday.
400
400 for JB 400. Salute :cheers:
+1 more to grow on.
Thank you much :cheers:
+2
Are we celebrating something??
403
We've made it this far, isn't that a good enough reason to celebrate?
404 the fact that we're all still here you mean?
405
Can't imagine why anyone would want to leave.
406 I meant on this planet........not the forum :icon_smile_big:
407
Area 51
408 :scratchchin: I thought it was District 9.
409
Am I thinking Beach Boys or household cleaner?
4:10 gears baby.
411 I set my clock forward, but don't know if I should in space.
412 Wouldn't that just make you older?
413 If I rewind the clock going 88 mph, will I get younger?
414 Only one way to find out!
415
Are we getting into thought experiments to pass the time?
416 Isn't time passing fast enough without trying to pass the time? :scratchchin:
417 If I speed up, will I outrun it?
418 Possibly but where will you end up?
419 Almost warm enough to put the Charger back together so I can take it for a spin.
420 Excellent news. (into orbit or just on the road?)
I take mine out once a week. Never fail to get a buzz out of it. :2thumbs:
421
I once met a Martian that drove a Pontiac. Must have broken down on the way home. Never saw him again.:shruggy:
422 one step closer to 426
423 .... BUT I think this might be 424 (but that would skip one) and make the next one 425.
The new/Next pages should start on 1, 26, 51, and 76. I worry that 400 was the last number on the last page (16)
This would mean the next one is the last post on this page and the one after that would b 426. I'll leave it for you spacemen to figure out.
Quote from: XH29N0G on March 18, 2018, 07:22:00 PM
423 .... BUT I think this might be 424 (but that would skip one) and make the next one 425.
The new/Next pages should start on 1, 26, 51, and 76. I worry that 400 was the last number on the last page (16)
This would mean the next one is the last post on this page and the one after that would b 426. I'll leave it for you spacemen to figure out.
424
What you may be confused about is the "Martian Time Shift Factor" Some of us call it OCD. Some call it dyslexia. Some completely forget---?? ER -- :scratchchi, :
Well anyway we are moving somewhere and in many directions at many speeds. Be sure to signal when making a flight correction. (as the "Martin Shift factor" allows)--(it's in the manual in the glove box). :icon_smile_wink:
425 - OK??? I can call it 425, but I think this is 425 replies plus one OP, so really 426 posts total. I am guess it is the start of a new page. SO maybe there are two 426s
426 :drive:
ARE YOU TWO GUYS HAVING A GOOD TIME??
I sure do have in mine. :icon_smile_big:
427 excellent! yes
428
Me too---Just drifting from one-parsec/milepost to another. :cheers:
429 Very glad to hear it. :2thumbs:
430
Sometimes you have to get lost to find yourself.
On the other hand....if you're lost......how do you find yourself?
And if you find yourself..... how do you know it's you..... because you're lost and it could be somebody else!
I admit these words are not mine but they could have been if I'd thought of them first!
431
The more I get lost from one place, the more I get found in another. But, I can't figure out who the guy in the mirror is
432 Why don't you just cover the mirror up and put an end to the enigma?
433
In the year 433 AD John of Antioch and Cyril of Alexandria sign the Formula of Reunion, thus ending their conflict over the Nestorian controversy and the Council of Ephesus. Seems like just yesterday...maybe it was.
434 :smilielol: I found 433 funny :smilielol: Probably because It makes me think of my mom watching Monte Python and the holy grail - a mix between "Oh, there is Connie" - someone she and my dad knew from high school - and "Wow, that is accurate, they actually did that (back then)" - my mom and dad know medieval history. OK, OK, I Know 433 is way before medieval, but still brought back memories.
435 Keep an eye out for tiangong 1. Looks like its coming down. Hope None of us gets hit.
436 I've got my hard hat on!
437
One of my old street numbers!
438 Bees Bees everywhere.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/04/03/12/03/nasa-funding-robotic-marsbees-to-explore-red-planet (https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/04/03/12/03/nasa-funding-robotic-marsbees-to-explore-red-planet)
439 Where did the space station land at?
440 Not on my head I'm pleased to say!
441
That's the best news I've heard all day
442
I haven't seen one of those in aeons.
443 There's one in the movie "Black Cat Run"
(a 442 not a 443)
444
445
Gliese 445 is located 17.6 light-years from Earth. So close, yet so far
446
447 crazy day - just tired after it.
448
449. Been roofing all day for a week now, with another week of it to go. All on 1 house
450 and were you communicating with Martians while you were up there?
451
Hammering or staple gunning in Morse Code to the Martians?
452 It is a nice day and the sun just rose.
453 Did the sun really rise or did the planet just revolve?
454
Did you watch earth revolving?
455 I didn't need to watch it......I can feel it........it leaves me feeling tipsy on occasion.
456
457
458 Sun rose, now it set. I think if I were revolving i'd be real dizzy. I feel fine.....
459 If you spin the opposite direction of the Earth, will you still get dizzy?
460
461
If you drive west fast enough you can stop winding up and the days will stop passing. ( Right near the poles, you can do this by walking).
If everyone drove or ran -east- at the same time would that force on the ground slow the rotation of the earth and make the days last longer?
462 I never thought about figuring out how far from the pole I would have to be to walk a 24 hour way around the world, effectively keeping still. Interesting. I suppose if we walked at 3 miles an hour, we would need to be about 10 miles from the pole. Is that right?
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Math is our friend. The earth is forty billion millimeters around.--Ten billion millimeters from the equator to a pole. This is what the metric liner measure is based on.
It's much easier to do the math in "base ten"--metric. :icon_smile_wink:
When you get done with the big numbers turn the result back into inches as needed. One inch= 25.4000mm--(about) ;)
464. Could you put that in terms us left fielders could understand?
466. From the web for Fenway park - Left Field is 310 feet, but I get stuck after that because ws23rt didn't post the conversion from feet to mm :smilielol:
466? In the last post, Did I just fail an addition test?
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Left field is 310 ft. from where? :slap:--I've been wandering around there for a few years and still don't know where I am. :shruggy:
BTW 1 in.= 25.400 millimeters. --One foot (12in) is 12 x 25.400 =304.8 mm.
1 mm = .03937 inches.
The Equator to a pole = 10,000,000,000 Millimeters. (this is what metric liner measure is based on.)
Now get to work and find the place near the pole to walk -forever- on the same day and wave at the Martians that are pointing and snickering at you. ;)
468 :slap: oww "it just said 310 feet" "not where its from"
469 Didn't some spacecraft get lost because of a units conversion? Or was it that it accidentally turned left instead of right?
470. Yes, a Mars explorer crashed simply because someone failed to use a conversion table
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472 and apparently another (Phobos 1) was lost because someone left a hyphen out of a command that was sent. ---------------there that should keep us on track.
Now back to left field.
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Quote from: XH29N0G on April 30, 2018, 08:20:08 PM
472 and apparently another (Phobos 1) was lost because someone left a hyphen out of a command that was sent. ---------------there that should keep us on track.
Now back to left field.
474 No way am I going back to left field........although it was great meeting a few of you there, it was only after that prick that put us there departed and left the gate open that I managed to find my way back and I'm staying put!
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Where was the gate? Apparently, I'm still there. Or, am I still here and want to be there? I'm confused
476 You might want to be there but believe me...you're better off here!
(or should that be the other way around?)
477 It may seem greener there, but it might just bee a fairy ring.
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I've been out here for some time now and have to say it is somewhat exclusive. ---And kinda like -- Hotel California. ::)
BTW--my history shows that I was sent here by a Maxim---I mean a Martian. :slap:
NASA just launched a new mission to find and understand this martian. I hope they have better luck than I had. :lol:
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That's him! I thought it was Prick but you're right, it was Maxim. Don't know how I managed to forget but I did.
480. Maxim Recoil was his full name. He liked to rip apart ones responses, and answer bit by bit.
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I wonder whatever happened to him..........did somebody finally shoot him into space?
482 Don't know....I missed those threads.... until now when digging through the ships archives....The one I saw looked biting, but actually pretty funny. But knowing that these things go off the rails, guess there must have been worse...
483 He left when I finally beat him with logic over the hub diameter of a Ford and Dodge. He thought they were metric in the 60's. :lol:
After that, we just wasn't any fun anymore
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Maxim bragged a few times about how well he faired on another site that apparently gathered folks like himself to just trash each other. ::)
He came here with a few car questions about his -General Lee charger- and seemed to pick apart (and insult) any answer that was posted about his question.
I got spanked (by him) early on just for posting the -rolling eyes- dude. ( ::)) --Laughing, questioning, challenging him in public really set him off. :shruggy:
Admittedly --I stayed up late more than a few nights playing with him cause it was just too much fun and hard to miss what he would say next. :lol:
How appropriate it is that we are reminiscing- Maxim Recoil- in this thread. :cheers:
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He was a rare sort........he knew the answers to all the questions even before he asked them.
I had a good time with him........lots of laughs.
He was fun!
486. Quite a few unique characters have come and gone
487 I'm relieved to be here with all the normal ones.
488 No such thing!
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Somebody has to put the fun back into dysfunctional.
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I'm nobody, so I can't do it
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That makes two of us :lol:
493 I'm somebody but I can't do it either!
494 So, what do we do if somebody can't do it?
495 Did someone leave the door open? I can't find the cat?
496 We have experts on this forum that can help with that.
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Kepler-497 is a sun that has at least 1 Extrasolar Planet believed to be in orbit around the star. Are we headed in the right direction to get there?
498. It might take us a day or two to get there. Anybody spotted the cat yet?
499 I know where all the cats are but I'm not telling.
500 I looked up keppler the cat and found this guy. The convergence of the two means we must be on the right trajectory. How far do we have to go?
501 How far do we have to go! ? ? ? ? ..........
I'm there already!
501. Someone got stuck on the dark side of the moon and their solar powered counter got off 1 digit. Better double check my math
502 Is it you? ??
503 Bad news, I misspelled Kepler in looking for the cat. I found another one (not the right one though) and a picture that made me wonder if people would be shorter or taller depending on how big the planet was they inhabited? (A 'stand up' zone for planets of a certain size?) [Next time, I'll look up 497]...
504 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australian-astronomers-find-black-hole-as-big-as-20-billion-suns
505 Is it going to eat us? that fastest growing black hole kreeps me out.
506. Are there any white holes? Why does everything have to be racist?
507 Is white the new black? ? ?
508 I just read a story in Science about very fast moving stars in our galaxy that were apparently flung out by companions. One model had two whit dwarfs parasitically growing and spinning around each other to the point where the bigger one becomes a supernova and blows up, sending the other off into space at high velocity. Apparently some stars get flung around this way and they think at least one fast moving star in our galaxy is a visitor from outside.
Not too many time I read things that make me think 'wow' but this one did it; and so did that one about the fast growing black hole from few posts ago.
509 That is how we also end up with rogue planets as well. As if a comet or asteroid isn't bad enough
510 A rogue planet would be good for rogues wouldn't it?
511 rogues in parkas
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515. The emptiness of space, unless you believe in dark matter
516 my mom's birthday.
517 My niece's birthday
518 most excellent.
519 My Charger's birthday. :icon_smile_big:
520 I saw :yesnod:
521 :2thumbs:
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I'll see, so we both can go up and down
523 can we seat two at each end? that way more of us can join in the fun.
524. Can we achieve equal weight distribution?
525 that would require odds and evens with quite a bit of shuffling around............. a tough job
526 :think: :think: :think:
527 My father always told me, leave the thinking to the horse...........it's got a bigger head!
528. But it has the smaller brain.
529 Hear me out, but I think the original point of the thread was to simulate the time lag in space communication. Am I imagining something or is the lag varying a little? Are we seeing evidence of ripples and possibly waves in the space time continuum. Does the space time continuum change in time? And do ripples propagate through space time? I don't know the answer, so if some of you do, please enlighten.
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533 Back to Mars
I just read something, but I'm not a hundred percent sure whether it is good or bad. Apparently they did the test on Humans and chimpanzees where they show them a grid of nine spaces with numbers in them and then hide the grid and ask them where the numbers are. They found it the adults humans and chimpanzees did about the same on this test.
The one thing they did find was it the Adolescent chimpanzees did much much better, especially if they only showed the grid for a very short amount of time. The hypothesis was that the Adolescent chimpanzees took a snapshot of the image with their mind, and then referred back to it when they needed to.
My dilemma is that I remember doing that in high school. At that time I thought it was a good thing.
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Quote from: XH29N0G on June 10, 2018, 11:14:03 PM
533 Back to Mars
My dilemma is that I remember doing that in high school. At that time I thought it was a good thing.
It probably still is for the victor.......to the victor go the spoils!
535 Cant do that any more - I grew up and my mind got old and uncertain....Also lost respect of both my elders (my dad told me its too bad my grandfather didn't know about that finding) and my youngers (my son asked me what it was like to be a chimpanzee).....
Quote from: XH29N0G on June 11, 2018, 11:43:31 AM
535 (my son asked me what it was like to be a chimpanzee).....
You mean he wasn't joking? Oh dear!
But you know, you don't have to be a chimp to head into outer space these days. ;D I think the next shuttle is taking humans.
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When did they start taking the shuttle again? Or, could it be the top secret space plane everyone knows about?
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It was just for want of a better word............ conveyance (the word that came to mind) wouldn't have quite hit the mark. :icon_smile_big:
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Hey look! Is that Spiral Galaxy IC 539 at 12 o'clock high?
540 Thanks for the galaxy lesson. Here is something I learned recently from a dinner conversation. Just looked it up, our magnetic pole is now moving faster than it die 30 years ago.
541. I wondered why my since of direction is off. Now, I know
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What's up?
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Which way is up?
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Happy Birthday to Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Discovered 40 years ago today
545 Happy birthday Charon. I was away on a trip, but am now back for a little bit.
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548 maybe time enough to think about some pope?
"Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind,
Describe or fix one movement of his mind?
Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend,
Explain his own beginning, or his end?
Alas what wonder! Man's superior part
Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art;
But when his own great work is but begun,
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. "
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Are the Prawns Martians in disguise?
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I was under the impression that Martians were a little crabby.
554 Maybe they're green lipped mussels :scratchchin:
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558 Have our brains turned to mush? Have we all had lobotomies?? ??
559. Got to have a brain before someone can take a piece of it
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562 This guy just showed up. Why is dangling the thingy off the cliff.
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It's a picture of a cross section
564 :brickwall:
OK, here's another. Cannot figure out what its doing.....
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-insight-lander-arrives-on-martian-surface-to-learn-what-lies-beneath
566 Thanks - I like this stuff and it will be interesting to learn what they find out. (Just looked a little bit 'mars attacks' like to me)
Post number 567...and we still haven't corrected the thread title for proper spelling?
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Large delay time between here and Houston. We may have to fix our own problems
Long delay - Looking forward to seeing kids for holidays.
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A very long delay!
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I think this wll get a lot shorter of a delay between posts now.
572 Is' this one of those engine numbers?
Hope I remember to reply and check in. Anyone know what's up with the martian probe? Too early for a temperature?
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What ever the temp is it probably warmer then here in the Mid West.
574. Haven't heard anything more about it
575 Opportunity is in trouble.
576 shall we take advantage?
577. Did Opportunity knock?
578 If it did I wasn't home!
579 I suppose you were out on a moon walk
580 I just started thinking and now wonder how small an asteroid would have to be to have pressure rise in its crust like the same way it does in our oceans?
581 Maybe this explains shy I wonder so much.
Quote from: XH29N0G on April 17, 2019, 01:40:55 PM
581 Maybe this explains shy I wonder so much.
582 "SHY"...you say? "WHY" are you shy? :icon_smile_big:
583 I meant why? must have been the old style :lol:
584 hAvE wE ben N sPaCe a LITTL3 bIt t00 lOo0o0onG? CoMun1cAtI0n eRor?
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I use redundant rad hard processors along with error detection and correction coding.
wow it has been a long time. 586
Thanks. Learned something new. I have no idea about anything called radiation hardening until I put some of the words from the last communication into google. Sometimes I wish I were like E.T. in wanting and being able to learn. Sometimes..... but the brain is low capacity, fills kinda quick, and the new stuff seems to push the old stuff out. Now I just gotta remember out what life-critical piece of information was lost due to radiation hardening.
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Comunicating with Martains game. It is sad to see 24 pages of useless crap, not related to our hobby.
590 (acudanut you forgot to put I your communication number)
it has been a while. I saw this on insighe
"This remarkable image was taken in the Terra Sabaea region of Mars, west of Augakuh Vallis, by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. This mysterious pattern sits on the crest of a ridge, and is thought to be the result of dust devil activity – essentially the convergence of hundreds or maybe even thousands of smaller martian tornadoes.
This image is a colour-composite representation where features that are bluer compared to the average colour of Mars are shown in bright blue hues. In actual colour, the streaks would appear dark red. Dust devils churn up the surface material, exposing fresher material below.
The reason why the streaks are so concentrated on the ridges is not known at present, but a relationship to orographic lift as masses of carbon dioxide air flow uphill and converge with other air masses is one possibility."
Also heard that the joint euroean-NASA mission kept going to an asteroid after a potential meteor impact Last winter only because NASA protocol wasn't followed to shut it down because the governemtn was shut down. Those photo's worked out and showed a picture or an asteroid surface. GO figure - the US saved the mission by shutting down the government.
591 https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images (https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images)
592 :cheers:
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Quote from: ACUDANUT on July 02, 2019, 06:36:15 PM
Comunicating with Martains game. It is sad to see 24 pages of useless crap, not related to our hobby.
That's why it's in the Off Topic Discussions area! :lol:
594. Must be on the darkside of the moon.
595 Just talking about Mars today - and planetary protection
Quote from: ACUDANUT on July 02, 2019, 06:36:15 PM
Comunicating with Martains game. It is sad to see 24 pages of useless crap, not related to our hobby.
x2. Get a life
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That is why I join these car forums. :2thumbs: :icon_smile_big:
This thread here is actually an ongoing experiment in communication. We are simulating what it is like to communicate through space. And I think we might have just gotten out of mars conjunction. (when mars is on the other side of the sun, so communications are delayed.
Maybe this video will help lighten things up and illustrate how important this particular thread is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av2H9IlP4e4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av2H9IlP4e4)
Quote from: XH29N0G on September 11, 2019, 02:40:32 AM
597 :smilielol:
This thread here is actually an ongoing experiment in communication. We are simulating what it is like to communicate through space. And I think we might have just gotten out of mars conjunction. (when mars is on the other side of the sun, so communications are delayed.
Thank You! about 600 post or 300 back and forth s . A long conversation for guys. Not so long for women. It took about 2 1/2 years.
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Funny thing, I ran a class last week where the kids were in groups that chose some aspect of Mars science/engineering/economics/history to research and give a series of group presentations in class. Some hiccups, some of my own hiccups in making it work. Overall they did a great job. Really creative and fun to see. They had done a lot of research, were engaged, asking questions.
Thought I'd share.
Quote from: ACUDANUT on July 02, 2019, 06:36:15 PM
Comunicating with Martains game. It is sad to see 24 pages of useless crap, not related to our hobby.
Other MoPar sites make fun of it. :'( :'( :'(
.....and the word association game...... :shruggy:
Let them do so.
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Looks like Nasa is sending a helicopter to Mars:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-nasas-new-mars-helicopter/
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606 Mars, Mars, Mars, Still communicating more than 600 days later.
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That poor mole.
Had to reprogram Voyager 2 last week.
https://newatlas.com/space/voyager-2-back-online/
Might need to do the same here.
Did you see that insight (the spacecraft with seismic sensors) detected tremors on Mars? Pretty cool.
I forgot the number, is it 610?
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/marsquakes (https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/marsquakes)
The one thing I can never figure out with this lander is why they keep parking it on the edge of a cliff.
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Halley's comet countdown:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/1p-halley/in-depth/
612 what about the asteroid that landed in the bering sea marvin's getting better with his aim
613 didn't know about that, just looked it up. Thanks that is neat. https://www.livescience.com/65062-bering-sea-meteor-explosion-photos.html (https://www.livescience.com/65062-bering-sea-meteor-explosion-photos.html)
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50 years since the successful failure, Apollo 13
https://www.ksl.com/article/46740996/50-years-ago-tonight-on-apollo-13-houston-weve-had-a-problem-here
615 now we're going to mine the moon for what dust? :shruggy:
616 Maybe Helium 3 for reactors that beam the energy back. Just don't stand too close to where it comes down. Or step away from your vehicle before pressing the energize button.
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619 the sun is getting mad https://spaceweather.com/
620 Thanks. I was just talking about the sun and flairs today in the same class that we were talking about mars in a few years ago and a few posts ago. I'll send this on to them.
621 New Horizons is taking a little bit longer to respond.
Looks like India made it to the moon successfully, the Russians, not so much.
https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-prime-minister-modi-all-humanity