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11-13-2018, 12:16 PM | #121 |
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02-14-2019, 01:00 PM | #122 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2009 Location: India
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F**k Opportunity is lost:( |
02-14-2019, 07:51 PM | #123 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Danish badlands
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The little rover that could and could and could. In stark contrast to so many other things in science and elsewhere that just go POP...... FIZzzzzzzz |
02-14-2019, 08:49 PM | #124 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Streamwood, IL
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Don't feel bad, according to the article I read in the paper this morning, that rover was originally designed to only run for 3 months. It lasted 15 yrs.
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02-15-2019, 06:47 AM | #125 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Danish badlands
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Yes indeed. Both of the rovers did way more than was planned for, i think the same was the case for the Hubble telescope. Now if we could just get the same for our cars. |
04-10-2019, 11:10 AM | #126 |
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04-10-2019, 02:35 PM | #127 |
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Yes and Falcon heavy launch in 2 hours or so ( weather permitting )
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04-11-2019, 04:53 PM | #128 |
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04-11-2019, 06:00 PM | #129 |
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Every time i see those 2 boosters land i am like Duuuuuuuuuude Still waiting for the day they land at the exact same time, though that will probably be a fluke. |
05-31-2019, 09:47 AM | #130 |
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05-31-2019, 10:47 AM | #131 |
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Rural Americas only chance of ever getting half good internet.... |
11-10-2020, 08:37 AM | #132 |
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11-10-2020, 11:34 AM | #133 |
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11-10-2020, 12:27 PM | #134 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: North Idaho
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I was reading an article yesterday about scientist being excited about finding several likely inhabitable planets relative close to our solar system. They defined "relatively close" as being between 20 - 30 light years away. This is interesting, but more or less useless for us, given that our fastest machines only move at a tiny fraction of light speed. To put it another way, light takes about 140 hours to get from our sun to the edge of our solar system, it took Voyager 2 about 40 years. Voyager 2 is moving at 35000mph, at that speed it will take 20,000 years to travel one light year... So much for "relatively close". |
11-10-2020, 11:11 PM | #135 | |
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11-11-2020, 01:03 PM | #136 | |
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But, again, most of this is moot. Globally we are nowhere near being able to develop technologies that would allow for FTL travel. We need people in space, testing and developing technologies that would be come the building blocks of FTL travel. Trying to solve FTL with our current space programs would be like trying to break the sound barrier using pre Wright Brother era glider ran off of a little hill. | |
11-11-2020, 01:24 PM | #137 |
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You ever read Enders game GS? The series may be right up your alley. As far as time travel, I have a hard time with this one becuase the dimension of time is linear, I’d think. If we could travel faster than the speed of light it makes me wonder if we could ever recreate the past to “see” it happen again but as far as actually putting a body in the past and interacting with people of the past like we see in movies, I have a hard time wrapping my head around that one. |
11-11-2020, 05:35 PM | #138 | |
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As far as time, goes, no, it is not linear, this is the time dilation effect, the closer to the speed of light you get, the slower time goes. This is one of the theories that Einstein postulated that has been proven. The computers on Earth orbit satellites have to have a time correction applied to them because they are moving so much faster than the Earth is, they lose a small fraction of time. This error isn't all that much, but if let go, it would throw of things that rely on precise timing like the GPS system. | |
11-20-2020, 11:22 AM | #139 |
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12-02-2020, 08:52 AM | #140 |
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