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Voyager 1 passes milestone
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| 8/20/2006
| NASA/JPL
Posted on 08/21/2006 8:49:57 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: LdSentinal
"Still, a million miles per day is not even Warp 2."
You're right, but approximately 4,667 MPH is just a tad faster than my old jalopy goes, LOL.
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:31:39 PM PDT
by
RebelTex
(Help cure diseases: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548372/posts)
To: LdSentinal
I'll settle for a green, Orion slave girl.
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:31:58 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
To: LdSentinal
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:36:46 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Dawn of light...lying between a silence and sold sources...)
To: COEXERJ145
I'll settle for a green, Orion slave girl. Mmmmm. Marta.
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posted on
08/21/2006 9:46:03 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Dawn of light...lying between a silence and sold sources...)
To: One_who_hopes_to_know
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Why does NASA forget about Pioneer I and II both of which are further away from earth than any Voyager?
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
And no mention at all of the freakish acceleration being observed? To me, that's the most exciting part of the whole mission. For some unknown reason, Voyager is speeding up as it gets farther away.
To: Basilides
To: free_at_jsl.com
And no mention at all of the freakish acceleration being observed? To me, that's the most exciting part of the whole mission. An unknown attractive force? Gravitational forces from our Solar System is losing its grip?
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Ha ha ha. We all know the speed of those bolts is warp 15.
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:07:14 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: free_at_jsl.com
Um, actually the pioneer anomoly is that they are accelerated toward the sun - slowed - slightly more than general relativity predicts. Which is probably because our theory of gravity has bugs popping out all over.
Just about every weird new physics idea - inspired by astrophysics anyway - is a side effect of the plain english fact that the gravity based predictions just come out wrong. Pioneer comes out wrong, galaxy rotation comes out wrong, gravitational lensing in galaxy clusters comes out wrong, theoretical expansion of the universe come out wrong. So they posit one after another weird new undiscovered whosits. Meanwhile, we've never detected a gravitational wave despite very sensitive detectors and theory that says there should be scads of them, and everyone knows that our theory of gravity and quantum theory cannot be stapled together - they are mathematically not consistent with each other.
In the end, we will find GR was a better approximation than Newton at some scales and energies, but is not actually right in detail.
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:14:26 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: LdSentinal
Will we ever find three-breasted females in the Universe?
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:19:04 PM PDT
by
WSGilcrest
(Mikey likes it!)
To: WSGilcrest
Ok ... that's just not right ....
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:35:08 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Islam is a subsingularity memetic perversion : (http://www.orionsarm.com/topics/perversities.html))
To: LdSentinal
Will we ever find three-breasted females in the Universe?
"two in front, and one in back for dancing" --Al Bundy
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:39:20 PM PDT
by
yhwhsman
("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Ok, I'm a Star Trek buff, but I don't remember when warp 10 was exceeded that one time. What happened? I remember when the Kelvans took over the Enterprise and it would take hundreds of years to reach Andromeda galaxy, and only their descendants would see it.
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posted on
08/21/2006 11:04:18 PM PDT
by
boop
(Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
To: demlosers
"An unknown attractive force? Gravitational forces from our Solar System is losing its grip?"
hillary's repulsive field. Go by Occam's razor and do not complicate needlessly.
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posted on
08/21/2006 11:07:10 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: boop
That would be Star Trek V, I think, the one where they come back in time to modern-day Earth.
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posted on
08/21/2006 11:21:27 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
To: WSGilcrest
To: COEXERJ145
I'll settle for a green, Orion slave girl.Are you sure about that?
Did you see the episode of "Star Trek, Enterprise" where they encountered the Orion Slave Girls?
They just get better with age, don't they? But there's a catch!
Mark
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posted on
08/21/2006 11:45:38 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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