Starship Asterisk*

On the surface of the Earth, the escape velocity is about 11.2 kilometers per second (~6.96 mi/s), which is approximately 34 times the speed of sound (Mach 34) and several times the muzzle velocity of a rifle bullet (up to 1.7 km/s). However, at 9,000 km altitude in "space", it is slightly less than 7.1 km/s.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_v ... #section_1

MargaritaMc wrote:
I've looked and looked at this Apod, trying to work out why, if it is going up to an orbit of 20,000+miles, the trail doesn't continue straight up. Why does the J curve happen?

MargaritaMc wrote:I've looked and looked at this Apod, trying to work out why, if it is going up to an orbit of 20,000+miles, the trail doesn't continue straight up. Why does the J curve happen?

Keyman wrote:
Wow. You grammarian dudes. Chill. You're being, such as, real picky.

• Like totally, Man! Duh!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_girl#Sociolect wrote:

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

<<Valley girl is a stereotype depicting a socio-economic and ethnic class of white women characterized by the colloquial California English dialect Valleyspeak and vapid materialism. The term originally referred to an ever increasing swell of semi-affluent and affluent middle-class and upper-middle class girls living in the early 1980s Los Angeles bedroom communities of San Fernando Valley. In time the traits and behaviors spread across the United States and abroad, metamorphosizing into a caricature of unapologetically spoiled "ditzes" and "airheads" more interested in shopping, personal appearance and social status than intellectual development or personal accomplishment. A sociolect associated with Valley Girls termed “Valspeak” spread across the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, heavily populating high-school teenage female slang throughout. Qualifiers such as “like”, “whatever”, “way”, "as if!", “totally”, and “duh” were interjected in the middle of phrases and sentences as emphasizers. Narrative sentences were often spoken as if questions using a high rising terminal. Heavily accented words were spoken with high variation in pitch combined with very open or nasal vowel sounds.>>

henrystar wrote:
"The TDRS network continues to support major spacecraft like the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope."

That, I think, is not what is meant.

What is meant is, "The TDRS network continues to support major spacecraft such as the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

In other words, TDRS actually supports HST, not just spacecraft that happen to be similar to HST; HST itself is supported.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=egg%20on%20your%20face wrote:
<<e.g.g on your face: To be extremely embarrassed.

Usually the embarassment is the result of one's own actions.

Not sure of the origin, but it may come from when clowns are at a circus and they have eggs thrown at them because of their goofy acts or when actors had eggs thrown at them performing in plays a couple of centuries ago.>>