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Geminid Meteors Seen Striking The Moon
New Scientist ^
| 1-5-2006
| Kelly Young
Posted on 01/05/2007 12:31:14 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
These fresh sites should be the first goal of the next round of lunar landers.
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posted on
12/22/2007 1:56:54 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: RayStacy
No light pollution there!
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posted on
12/22/2007 1:57:52 PM PST
by
RobbyS
To: Darksheare
We can’t see Sirius from here. Got a good look at Geminids though.
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posted on
12/22/2007 1:58:18 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: RayStacy
I was looking forward to watching the Geminids this year, but a snow storm made that impossible. I had to settle for a warm fire and a movie on my HD screen. It was terrible sacrifice :-)
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posted on
12/22/2007 2:17:31 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
I had to settle for a warm fire and a movie on my HD screen. Was it one of those split-screen widescreens where you had the fire on the left and the movie on the right?
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posted on
12/22/2007 2:20:31 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurtureā¢)
To: steve86
No. 1080P. 5.1 surround off the BluRay. The wood burning stove was chewing on some of the 10 cords of wood I have stacked on the basketball court. Very nice when the temperature is in the high teens, the wind is blowing 35+ MPH and the snow is coating all the windward surfaces.
My "honey do" for the day will be installing the gas fire place bricks and burner in the master bedroom fireplace. That's our fall back when the weather is too harsh to venture outside for another load of wood.
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posted on
12/22/2007 2:27:13 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Would it be possible to generate a magnetic field that could deflect solar radiation around spacecraft?
To: Myrddin
I had to settle for a warm fire... Yeah, I haven't seen the stars in weeks.
What did you watch? Showdown at Area 51?
I read the usenet groups instead. One guy said he went out and finally found Telstar...yadda, yadda, yadda, and it turned out that he froze his butt off to see a dead satellite whose song named after it was only worth $2.50 for the 45.
To: Calvin Locke
I think it was Bourne Ultimatum on the HD-DVD that night. A couple nights ago we watched the Simpsons Movie on BluRay. I have players for both formats. Thus far the Sony BDP-S300 BluRay player has proven to be the better device compared to the Toshiba HD-A30 HD-DVD player. Both are current on firmware. The Toshiba crashes frequently. I pulled an Ethernet connection for the player last week to make firmware updates more convenient. The BluRay still requires making a DVD-R from the firmware distributed by the Sony support site. Updates a easy either way.
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posted on
12/22/2007 2:55:15 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
Ah, you early adopters...
Perhaps you should look into the remote astronomy thing.
Kicking back in a lounge chair, dog at your feet, cognac at your elbow, iPhone in hand, gazing at the sky on the HD screen?
To: blam; 75thOVI; AFPhys; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; ...
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posted on
12/22/2007 7:16:45 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: MediaMole
Yes. And no. 8<)
Depends on energy, speed, charge, and mass of the radioactive particle coming in: A magnetic field will deflect a moving charged particle. A non-charged particle (a gamma ray or X-ray or neutron) won’t get deflected at all.
If the moving particle is at very high speed, or very high mass, it won’t get deflected enough by the magnetic field to protect the occupants of the spacecraft, or the internals of a instrument-only spacecraft.
The earth’s atmosphere actually protects us from almost all of the incoming cosmic radiation: the added protection of the earth’s magnetic field helps, but the mile-thick atmosphere blanket are more important.
It’s said that the CO and XO of an aircraft carrier - because they are up above the radiation shielding of the ship’s deck, get more radiation dose per year than the nuclear workers nearer the reactor, but further from the cosmic radiation and separated by steel deck plates from radiation coming from above. Airplane pilots and flight attendants get more rad’s than most nuclear plant workers do who are down at ground level. It’s just that the pilots are not monitored, so they can’t tell (er, don’t know) that they are radiated.
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posted on
12/22/2007 10:14:24 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
12/23/2007 9:24:51 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
(The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens pay nearly half of everything they earn)
To: ASA Vet
“Is “none” negligible?”
That depends Mr. Gore, was there any controlling legal authority?
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posted on
12/25/2007 12:40:44 AM PST
by
JSteff
To: Calvin Locke
“Did any of the Apollo missions think to bring back samples of the atmosphere?”
Doesn’t atmosphere require gravity? The moons is like one sixth of earth’s. Less atmosphere to start and nothing to renew it.
No oceans, no lightning storms, no plant life, no volcanoes (anymore)=no atmosphere.
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posted on
12/25/2007 12:47:44 AM PST
by
JSteff
To: Young Werther
When in doubt ask Asimov He be dead so likely won't answer.
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posted on
12/25/2007 5:22:32 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
To: steve86
Was it one of those split-screen widescreens Pornovision?
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posted on
12/25/2007 5:32:07 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
To: blam
First the Hollywood writers, next the Broadway stagehands and now the Geminids!
It's Bush's Fault and only a leader with extensive experience can mitigate these circumstances. I say we launch the Hildebeast to the Moon, (which can be a Harsh Mistress), along with her Bubba to fixthis problem.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:38:04 AM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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