Starship Asterisk*

Webster 1828 edition wrote:
METEOR, n. [Gr. sublime, lofty.]

• 1. In a general sense, a body that flies or floats in the air, and in this sense it includes rain,hail, snow, &c.
  
  2. A fiery or luminous body or appearance flying or floating in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. We give this name to the brilliant globes or masses of matter which are occasionally seen moving rapidly through our atmosphere, and which throw off, with loud explosions, fragments that reach the earth, and are called falling stones. We call by the same name those fire balls which are usually denominated falling stars, supposed to be owning to gelatinous matter inflated by phosphureted hydrogen gas; also,the lights which appear over moist grounds and grave yards, called ignes fatui, which are ascribed to the same cause.

http://www.universetoday.com/96829/x-51-waverider-scramjet-test-flight-fails/#more-96829 wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF]Artists concept of the X-51A Waverider. Credit: US Air Force[/color][/b]

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X-51 Waverider ‘Scramjet’ Test Flight Fails
by Nancy Atkinson on August 15, 2012

<<A highly anticipated test flight of the X-51A Waverider scramjet ended abruptly after the experimental aircraft suffered a control failure and broke apart during an attempt to fly at six times the speed of sound. The test flight took place off the coast of California and the X-51A was dropped from a B-52 bomber, but an US Air Force spokesman said that a faulty control fin prevented it from starting its unique “airbreathing” scramjet engine. The Air Force is hoping this type of technology would be successful enough to eventually be used for more efficient transport of payloads into orbit and the Pentagon has touted its ability to deliver strikes around the globe within minutes.

The craft was carried to about 15,240 meters (50,000 ft.) by a B-52 from Edwards Air Force Base in California, and was dropped over the Pacific Ocean. Designers were hoping the Waverider would reach Mach 6 or more. The scramjet (short for “supersonic combustion ramjet”) is an air-breathing engine, where intake air blows through its combustion chamber at supersonic speeds. The engine has no moving parts, and the oxygen needed by the engine to combust is taken from the atmosphere passing through the vehicle, instead of from a tank onboard, making the craft smaller, lighter and faster. Some designers have predicted it could reach speeds of anywhere from Mach 12 to Mach 24. This could cut an 18-hour trip to Tokyo from New York City to less than 2 hours.>>

Moonlady wrote:Neufer, you have to add at least a joke in your post!

That beeping and jeeping joke is beyond my comprehension

Moonlady wrote:
Neufer, you have to add at least a joke in your post!

emc wrote:

This is a test and only a test.
Do not attempt to adjust the horizontal.
Do not attempt to adjust the vertical.
I repeat… this is a test.
Should this have been an actual emergency you would not have received a message.
I would be panic stricken.
I repeat this is a text.
This is a test.
I repeat
I repeat <whack!>
You may now return to your regularly scheduled postings.

neufer wrote: This is a test to see who out there is as old as dirt.

emc wrote:
This is a test and only a test.
Do not attempt to adjust the horizontal.
Do not attempt to adjust the vertical.
I repeat… this is a test.
Should this have been an actual emergency you would not have received a message.
I would be panic stricken.
I repeat this is a text.
This is a test.
I repeat
I repeat <whack!>
You may now return to your regularly scheduled postings.

neufer wrote:

emc wrote:

This is a test and only a test.
Do not attempt to adjust the horizontal.
Do not attempt to adjust the vertical.
I repeat… this is a test.
Should this have been an actual emergency you would not have received a message.
I would be panic stricken.
I repeat this is a text.
This is a test.
I repeat
I repeat <whack!>
You may now return to your regularly scheduled postings.

This is a test to see who out there is as old as dirt.

Beyond wrote:A Questionable Joke.

What kind of soap should one use, while takeing in a meteor shower?

BMAONE23 wrote:

Beyond wrote:A Questionable Joke.

What kind of soap should one use, while takeing in a meteor shower?

How about

Meteor Rid

BMAONE23 wrote:

Beyond wrote:A Questionable Joke.

What kind of soap should one use, while takeing in a meteor shower?

How about

Meteor Rid

Beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:

emc wrote:

This is a test and only a test.
Do not attempt to adjust the horizontal.
Do not attempt to adjust the vertical.
I repeat… this is a test.
Should this have been an actual emergency you would not have received a message.
I would be panic stricken.
I repeat this is a text.
This is a test.
I repeat
I repeat <whack!>
You may now return to your regularly scheduled postings.

This is a test to see who out there is as old as dirt.

I vaguely remember the pattern, or a similar one, but not the indian chief. Therefore i am a shade younger than dirt.

Beyond wrote:

Moonlady wrote:Neufer, you have to add at least a joke in your post!

That beeping and jeeping joke is beyond my comprehension

It's all neufer's fault
I read a recent post of his, where Popeye the sailor was asking what a 'jeep' was.(i think it's in an APOD thread) Well, a jeep(vehicle)runs on the road, or off the road. There is also a scrawny chicken like bird that runs fast, and is called a roadrunner. In cartoons, it goes beep-beep. In the Popeye cartoons, the jeep critter, which is partly 4-th dimensional, goes jeep-jeep. Thus there are two roadrunners. One goes beep-beep and the other replies jeep-jeep It's really a very good -bad- joke. At least -eye- think so.