Well Endeavor is ready for a flight to the ISS Saturday afternoon GMT, final piece of the Japanese lab is going up.
Some nice launch cam vids from the last mission...
Launch to splashdown vids from the SRBs quite cool to watch.
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Women are connected to the moon by their menstrual cycles, apparently.
http://www.examiner.com/x-12038-SF-Astr ... o-the-moon
Has anybody here spoken to the moon? Did you show her any respect? I bit you didn't even call her back when you said you would, you callous bastard.
http://www.examiner.com/x-12038-SF-Astr ... o-the-moon
Has anybody here spoken to the moon? Did you show her any respect? I bit you didn't even call her back when you said you would, you callous bastard.
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Betelgeuse to go supernova?
Well, yes maybe. When? In the next few hundred/thousand years. Soon anyway on astronomical scale.Betelgeuse is shrinking! Could it be about to go supernova? Reports from the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California this week suggest that over the past 15 years the bright red star has shrunk by 15%.
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Well a 15% shrinkage equal to the orbit of Venus in fifteen years would mean a 1% shrinkage a year - when does a sun Super Nova ? probably somewhere around 50% of original diameter or less - so in what, another 35 years then or thereabouts.
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It's more complicated than that - dying stars can pulse in size, as heavier element fusion kicks in as the core heats and so adds more energy to the star.axel000 wrote:Well a 15% shrinkage equal to the orbit of Venus in fifteen years would mean a 1% shrinkage a year - when does a sun Super Nova ? probably somewhere around 50% of original diameter or less - so in what, another 35 years then or thereabouts.
But, if it's not going to get bigger gain, and it's compressing at 1% a year and accelerating, it's a reasonable guess that it's well under 100 years...
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This is the greatest thing ever to be released this decade:
http://www.haynes.co.uk/Press/Releases_ ... elease.htm
http://www.haynes.co.uk/Press/Releases_ ... elease.htm
"Stars don't twinkle in space." - Char Aznable.
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That's the easy bit!F-ZeroOne wrote:You're welcome - now, where can we get some ferrite core memory then?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Magnetic-core-mem ... 7C294%3A50
I know nothing about Konix.
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Couldn't find it on eBay, but Haynes sell it direct (at RRP) or get it cheaper from Play.com or Amazon.Mqark wrote:Brilliant - just gone over to ebay to get a copy. Thanks.
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Really? http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_nkwZ ... Q_fromZR18PVB wrote:Couldn't find it on eBay, but Haynes sell it direct (at RRP) or get it cheaper from Play.com or Amazon.Mqark wrote:Brilliant - just gone over to ebay to get a copy. Thanks.
I went for the 12 quid (and 4 pence) one.
I know nothing about Konix.
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I searched for 'Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual' but didn't check the alternative selection of just 'Apollo 11 Manual'.Mqark wrote:Really? http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_nkwZ ... Q_fromZR18PVB wrote:Couldn't find it on eBay, but Haynes sell it direct (at RRP) or get it cheaper from Play.com or Amazon.Mqark wrote:Brilliant - just gone over to ebay to get a copy. Thanks.
I went for the 12 quid (and 4 pence) one.
