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: 563 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 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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