Re: APOD: Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has... (2014 Jul 21
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:37 am
Can't wait for the higher resolution pictures, and the landing...
Go, Rosetta, Go!!!!
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Go, Rosetta, Go!!!!
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neufer wrote:Few (?), a. [OE. fewe, feawe.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few?" Job x. 20.eSpace wrote:
Just a minor clarification: The actual rotation rate is just over 12 hours rather than a "few hours". Makes a difference when you're trying to put a lander down....
LORD POLONIUS: Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 1, Scene 3
- The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Spaghettification and meat sauce?DavidLeodis wrote:Through the "tidal forces" link I learnt a new word:- spaghettification.
EWWW! That's Gruesome, Ann.Ann wrote:Spaghettification and meat sauce?![]()
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The only folks with "a different measurement system"BillBixby wrote:
Another landing coming up. I hope all the engineers have there DUCKS in a row, know how many feet are in a yard and Yards to the meter. For some reason I worry when different countries with different measurement systems get together to work on a project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system wrote:
<<The United States remains the only industrialised country that has not adopted the metric system as its official system of measurement. Many sources also cite Liberia and Burma as the only other countries not to have done so.>>