"Now traveling at one thousand four hundred and twenty miles per hour..." There's got to be a graph with speed/acceleration capability of rocket power getting bigger over time that abruptly plateaus with "faster that this and we kill the passengers."
"Now traveling at one thousand four hundred and twenty miles per hour..."
There's got to be a graph with speed/acceleration capability of rocket power getting bigger over time that abruptly plateaus with "faster that this and we kill the passengers."
got up pretty early, made a cup of coffee and went outside to lay eyes on the blood moon skies at the time were clear and cooperating reflected on what my ancestors might have thought if and when they saw this event probably something silly...
Heck when I saw my first in '64 I thought something silly.
got up pretty early, made a cup of coffee and went outside to lay eyes on the blood moon
skies at the time were clear and cooperating
reflected on what my ancestors might have thought if and when they saw this event
probably something silly...
USA: Hello? EU? There's a massive asteroid heading for a direct hit on earth.
EU: Yikes, but you developed a rocket system to blow those off course, right?
USA: Right. But here's the thing - that cost a lot to develop and deploy. We think it is only fair if you pay half the cost. By tomorrow would be good.
EU: We never got an agreement in place on that.
USA: Yeah, well, we think that under the current circumstances, you will be eager to pay or else the world will get destroyed.
EU: But if you don't deploy it, you will get destroyed too.
I remember explaining to a room full of suits what the internet was, but it wasnât sticking. So I asked âwhere are you from?â Tulsa. âOKâ¦here is the weather RIGHT NOW in Tulsa.â
No one got it except this guy in a brown suit in the middle of the room. His eyes got wide and I realized he understood what this meant for the future.
Same here. Yay that they hit a rock with a satellite. But the implications of 1) being able to identify the dangerous object 2) plot a course towards it that works 3) ram/destroy it so itâs not longer a threatâ¦the orbit/trajectory calculations required for that are mind-boggling - and then to launch the thing, have it find the bad guy, then ram it - and save humanity.
I remember explaining to a room full of suits what the internet was, but it wasnât sticking. So I asked âwhere are you from?â Tulsa. âOKâ¦here is the weather RIGHT NOW in Tulsa.â
No one got it except this guy in a brown suit in the middle of the room. His eyes got wide and I realized he understood what this meant for the future.
Same here. Yay that they hit a rock with a satellite. But the implications of 1) being able to identify the dangerous object 2) plot a course towards it that works 3) ram/destroy it so itâs not longer a threatâ¦the orbit/trajectory calculations required for that are mind-boggling - and then to launch the thing, have it find the bad guy, then ram it - and save humanity.
Fifteen days before impact, DARTâs CubeSat companion Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube), provided by the Italian Space Agency, deployed from the spacecraft to capture images of DARTâs impact and of the asteroidâs resulting cloud of ejected matter. In tandem with the images returned by DRACO, LICIACubeâs images are intended to provide a view of the collisionâs effects to help researchers better characterize the effectiveness of kinetic impact in deflecting an asteroid. Because LICIACube doesnât carry a large antenna, images will be downlinked to Earth one by one in the coming weeks.
