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2005-06-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

"That's not a solar sail! It's a Space Mirror!"

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-22 12:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OH BOY... I don't know where to start with this one, and I have to get back to work now.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-06-22 13:51|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-06-22 13:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Do the math: 28,709.1 YEARS! That's one heck of a "human lifetime" - even a "reasonable" one.

Poor dumb dope. He missed the forest for the trees.

Posted by Halliburton Immortality Division 2005-06-22 14:57|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-06-22 14:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Note to self: Double-check all the fields next time before you want to make a pseudonymous post. Damn.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-06-22 14:58|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-06-22 14:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The launch failed (premature first stage booster cutoff). Either the craft is in very low orbit or (most likely) has already reentered the atmosphere and is on bottom of artic ocean.
This is the second russian launch failure in the past few days. A booster with a military comm satellite fell onto a siberian forest after first stage failure.

Posted by john 2005-06-22 15:50|| 2005-06-22 15:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Given that is is a sub missile, it does make me feel a bit more secure.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-06-22 16:10|| 2005-06-22 16:10|| Front Page Top

#6 He also forgot about acceleration time and deceleration time. How do you stop something going 100,000 miles an hour? Very big brakes?

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-06-22 16:34|| 2005-06-22 16:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Deacon---You will need an an Acme Solar Sail (Space Mirror) Multiple Mirror Deceleration Kit with anti-matter creator/retro-rocket feature for quicker stops.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-06-22 16:50|| 2005-06-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Diamonds are forever
They are all I need to please me
They can stimulate and tease me
They won't leave in the night, I've no fear that they might desert me...

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-22 16:56|| 2005-06-22 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 One little piece of math the moron missed: relativistic effects on the "Cargo".

"Solar sailing might be able to get us there in a more reasonable time, perhaps within a human lifetime"

THis means if they work them to where they can obtain higher velocities, they will get there faster, and the faster you go, the slower time goes for the humans aboard.

I guess the Muslims must have a different physics in their world of moonbats, dhimmis and kehfirs.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-22 18:10|| 2005-06-22 18:10|| Front Page Top

#10 There is something called "islamic science"

The Jinn- A Scientific Analysis

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"As a faculty member at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Hoodbhoy found himself challenging the establishment during the 1980s when he noticed some bizarre, indeed hilarious, ideas creeping into the domain of science. It was the era of Zia-ul-Haq. The erstwhile army general had banned freedom of expression and had set Pakistan on the road to Islam. Hoodbhoy says the period also witnessed an Islamisation of science that Pakistan had never seen before.

Scientists began to write and discuss âscientific papersâ on such topics as the angle of God, the temperature of Hell, or the latent energy of jinns. One university professor of physics wrote a paper on the speed at which Heaven was departing from Earth. A nuclear reactor scientist argued that jinns were made up of methane gas and proposed that jinn energy may be tapped to meet Pakistanâs energy requirements.

The political climate in Pakistan has changed over the years â and the Zia-ul-Haq-inspired brand of science doesnât get the encouragement or protection that it used to. But it hasnât entirely gone away, either, says Hoodbhoy"

Posted by john 2005-06-22 19:00|| 2005-06-22 19:00|| Front Page Top

#11 That's not a moon. It's a space station!

Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-22 21:16|| 2005-06-22 21:16|| Front Page Top

#12 ...the faster you go, the slower time goes for the humans aboard.

It only seems slower.

(100,000 mph isn't relativistic, OS.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-06-22 21:24|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-06-22 21:24|| Front Page Top

#13 ANngie, I'm aware of that :-)

Thats why I stipulated hjigher velocities to get it down to a human lifetime. I was trying to emphasize that once you get to relativistic velocities, human lifetimes are incredibly long back in this frame of reference.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-22 23:06|| 2005-06-22 23:06|| Front Page Top

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