ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 15 2005, 08:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Feb 3 2007, 04:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
A mile is in the eye of the beholder
Statute, nautical, imperial... yadayadayada... -------------------- |
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Feb 3 2007, 04:51 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I'm all for the metric system. If I could convince the USAF Reserve to let me run 2 km instead of 2 miles for my biannual physical fitness test, life would be better...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 3 2007, 04:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
The great thing about using a variety of units: miles, km, sols, days, etc.
is there are so many more milestones to celebrate. The more the merrier! |
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Feb 3 2007, 06:23 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 29-July 05 From: Amsterdam, NL Member No.: 448 |
What's a mile? (well - it's a European spacecraft after all ) Doug Gee, Doug. I thought you British were just as good as us Americans for knowing how far a mile is on the road! (Even though you put the signs on the “wrong” side of the road.) You holding out on us? |
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Feb 3 2007, 06:27 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
If the UK would switch to KM, I'd be very happy.
Doug |
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Feb 4 2007, 11:05 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I'll admit, I am a stick in the mud when it comes to metric...for space exploration, great, but as for every day life, give me miles, feet, pounds, and inches. Well, off to watch the game...
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Feb 5 2007, 07:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Ted, why to complicate your life using Km in space and Miles on Earth?
I have impression that the only way to convince all to use the same unit system is... to create a new one! I know, is a madness... anyway, what do you think of the space covered by light in a billionth of sec? (hey, you should like it, is pretty close to a foot!). Then use all power of 10 units (metric is better from this standpoint, no doubt). Even better, we could divide the day in 10^5 "seconds" and we will have such a lenght unit equal to 259mm or about 10 inch)... ok, stop the metric madness! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Feb 5 2007, 09:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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Feb 5 2007, 09:42 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Wouldn't you rather have a litre
Doug |
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Feb 5 2007, 10:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Even that's not strictly SI. I'll have a cubic metre and a pork pie please.
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Feb 5 2007, 10:49 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I'm reminded of a rather foul song I co-wrote for a laugh whilst a teenager...I'll share it with you next time I see you - not suitable for forum consumption
John the Grocers life fell through the ground, When he got nicked for selling apples by the pound..... Doug |
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Feb 5 2007, 10:50 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Wouldn't you rather have a litre Doug We have some things in liters. Mainly softdrinks. -------------------- |
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Feb 5 2007, 11:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
We have some things in liters. So you're not even consistent? -------------------- |
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Feb 5 2007, 11:52 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Basically, in the 1970s, there was an abortive attempt to make America metric, but a few things did change and have stayed. My understanding is that something similar happened in the UK, but got a lot farther. I know the whole Celsius thing has been a point of confusion when I am on that side of the puddle (which collectively over the course of my life would total up to about a year), because, well, 40 degrees instinctively sounds cold to me, even though I know that it isn't on the Celsius scale.
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Feb 5 2007, 03:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
As an American, I never got to see these "in person," but I saw one on a news story here. You see, when Britain went over to a decimal money system, they ran a series of public service announcements urging people to use the new decimal money.
The PSAs had a little jingle that I still recall, perhaps because of the actual way they stated some things. Specifically, while the decimal money was called decimal, the old-style money-counting system was referred to by the abbreviations for pound, shilling and pence, which for some odd (and I'm sure quite English) reason was abbreviated to "LSD." So you got: "Decimal shops Give decimal change, LSD shops give... LSD change!" Hearing that for the first time, I figured there was no problem -- you'd have no issue getting rid of LSD change. Just invite a lot of people from San Francisco... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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