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On 10/11/2011 19:54, Simply Fred wrote:
atriage wrote: Yup, sentient asteroids is a pretty worrying concept. Shirley you mean suicidal sentient asteroids. Or possibly dinosaur hating suicidal sentient asteroids. The question is do they hate people too? I mean maybe they get really annoyed when we land on them. -- |
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On Nov 10, 6:08*pm, atriage wrote:
On 10/11/2011 14:17, RicodJour wrote: On Nov 10, 8:22 am, *wrote: On Nov 8, 11:52 am, *wrote: A Tuesday event!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15572634 -- Everyone, the press, movies...., overlooks that due to Newton's laws and the two body problem solution, the Earth cannot "capture" an asteroid. That is, the only way a collision can happen is if the asteroid was exactly "aiming" at the Earth. This means that collisions are exceedingly rare. I would prefer to think that it was aimed, rather than aiming. *Please don't disillusion me. Yup, sentient asteroids is a pretty worrying concept. -- How about sentient stars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star) -ilan |
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Simply Fred wrote: Fredmaster of Brainerd wrote: Look on the bright side, we know that (99942)Apophis won't hit Earth in 2029, although there is still a small possibility that it will hit in 2036 (very unlikely, but depends on how its orbit is affected by the 2029 approach). This gives us a full 7 years more in which to learn the outcome of the Jan Ullrich WADA case. atriage wrote: I see, at last I understand WADA's scheduling considerations. Unless of course their scheduling is based on astrological charts. Perhaps Lafferty should check whether LANCE's chart has anything about some given Tuesday being occluded by Mars. Mars _owns_ Tuesday, but Brian is filing for an injunction. -- Old Fritz |
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atriage wrote:
Or possibly dinosaur hating suicidal sentient asteroids. The question is do they hate people too? I mean maybe they get really annoyed when we land on them. Perhaps that Russian mission to Phobos was sabotaged to protect us from Phobos's wrath at having pieces of itself removed and taken to Earth. Or perhaps the Russian space agency just ****ed up (and they don't even have the excuse of getting mixed up between SI and stupid imperial units). |
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On 11/11/2011 09:04, Simply Fred wrote:
atriage wrote: Or possibly dinosaur hating suicidal sentient asteroids. The question is do they hate people too? I mean maybe they get really annoyed when we land on them. Perhaps that Russian mission to Phobos was sabotaged to protect us from Phobos's wrath at having pieces of itself removed and taken to Earth. Or perhaps the Russian space agency just ****ed up There's some serious overtime being worked on that mission now, I hope they can persuade the silly thing to do an engine burn (preferably one that heads it off towards Mars). (and they don't even have the excuse of getting mixed up between SI and stupid imperial units). Yeah America makes a big song and dance about it's independence but uses measurement units decreed by a King of England 900 or so years ago. (Henry I (1100-1135)) or the Romans 1000 years before that. NASA is just about my favourite organisation in the world but that conversion ****up was criminally stupid. -- |
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On Nov 11, 4:31*am, atriage wrote:
Yeah America makes a big song and dance about it's independence but uses measurement units decreed by a King of England 900 or so years ago. (Henry I (1100-1135)) or the Romans 1000 years before that. NASA is just about my favourite organisation in the world but that conversion ****up was criminally stupid. What conversion ****up? R |
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On Nov 11, 4:31*am, atriage wrote:
Yeah America makes a big song and dance about it's independence but uses measurement units decreed by a King of England 900 or so years ago. (Henry I (1100-1135)) or the Romans 1000 years before that. BTW, that's not nearly as stupid or dependent as insisting on base ten units because God created people with ten fingers 6000 years ago. R |
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On 11/11/2011 14:01, RicodJour wrote:
On Nov 11, 4:31 am, wrote: Yeah America makes a big song and dance about it's independence but uses measurement units decreed by a King of England 900 or so years ago. (Henry I (1100-1135)) or the Romans 1000 years before that. NASA is just about my favourite organisation in the world but that conversion ****up was criminally stupid. What conversion ****up? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter -- |
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On 11/11/2011 14:04, atriage wrote:
On 11/11/2011 14:01, RicodJour wrote: On Nov 11, 4:31 am, wrote: Yeah America makes a big song and dance about it's independence but uses measurement units decreed by a King of England 900 or so years ago. (Henry I (1100-1135)) or the Romans 1000 years before that. NASA is just about my favourite organisation in the world but that conversion ****up was criminally stupid. What conversion ****up? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter Actually strictly speaking it was a 'lack of conversion' error, but still wholly unacceptable and ****ing expensive. -- |
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RicodJour a écrit profondement:
| On Nov 11, 4:31*am, atriage wrote: | | Yeah America makes a big song and dance about it's independence but uses | measurement units decreed by a King of England 900 or so years ago. (Henry I | (1100-1135)) or the Romans 1000 years before that. NASA is just about my | favourite organisation in the world but that conversion ****up was criminally | stupid. | What conversion ****up? The one they didn't use to neutralize the Van Allen Belt when they didn't go to the Moon to avoid the embarrassment of having to go through the Russian Customs and Immigration process when they landed. -- Davey Crockett France 2012 Votez Le Pen |
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