Starship Asterisk*

neufer wrote:

petsie wrote:isn't (very, very) most of these impressive clouds made out of steam (H2O) used do cool down the rockets before take off?

geckzilla wrote:Hehe, yeah, Nyman is pretty much minimalist classical. It's a relatively new genre and many of the pieces tend to be love-it-or-hate-it. The reason I love it is because I'm an escapist and when I draw or work I need either good ambient music or something low-key and ambient music usually lacks emotion so I have tons of movie soundtracks. If there's any lyrics in a language I understand it's ridiculously distracting to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquility_%28ISS_module%29 wrote:
<<On April 14, 2009, astronaut Suni Williams appeared on The Colbert Report, and announced the name of the node would be Tranquility. The name was chosen in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the first lunar landing of Apollo 11 on the Sea of Tranquility. However, the treadmill the astronauts use for exercise will be named "C.O.L.B.E.R.T." for "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill" and will be located in Tranquility. Colbert was thrilled and happily accepted this offer. The treadmill traveled to space aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-128 on August 28, 2009, for eventual installation in the Tranquility node during STS-130.>>

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... ce-odyssey

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/?archive=2010-02 wrote:
<<During the two week mission, [STS-130] astronauts will deliver and install the Tranquillity node and its cupola, a dome-shaped extension with seven windows for keeping an eye on robotic operations outside the station. The node will house the station's environmental control equipment which removes carbon dioxide from the air and converts urine to drinkable water. There's even room for the treadmill which has been taking up needed space elsewhere on the station.>>

petsie wrote:isn't (very, very) most of these impressive clouds made out of steam (H2O) used do cool down the rockets before take off?

• Blasting, billowing, bursting forth
  With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes
  Man with his flaming pyre
  Has conquered the wayward breezes
  
  Climbing to tranquility
  Far above the cloud
  Conceiving the heavens
  Clear of misty shroud
  
  Higher and higher
  Now we've learned to play with fire
  We go higher and higher and higher

emc wrote:blasting billowing bursting… boldly breeching banking… bouncing bumping being… beautiful benign buoyant… building booming breathtaking… braking burning bouncing… bountiful beyond belief

http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html wrote:
Captain Haddock's Curses

Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Beast! Belemnite! Big-head! Black beetles! Black Marketers! Blackamoor! Blackbird! Blackguards! Blistering Barnacles! Blistereing blundering birdbrain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Blunderbuss! Bodysnatcher! Bootlegger! Borgia! Bougainvillea! Brat! Breathalyser! Brigands! Brutes! Bucaneers! Bully! Butcher!

APOD Robot wrote: Night Launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

petsie wrote:isn't (very, very) most of these impressive clouds made out of steam (H2O) used do cool down the rockets before take off?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle wrote:
<<Water is released onto the mobile launcher platform on Launch Pad 39A at the start of a rare sound suppression system test in 2004. During launch, 300,000 US gallons (1,100 m³) are poured onto the pad in only 41 seconds.

When the three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) start, the water from the
sound suppression system flashes into a large volume of steam that shoots southward.>>