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 6 2007, 02:39 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
The part that I find really odd is that "Imperial" measures are fundamentally defined by calling on metric SI base units e.g. the international avoirdupois pound is defined officially as being equal to exactly 453.59237 SI grams. This opens up a whole other argument about pounds being units of force and not mass but I really don't think we should go there again.
In any case surely shouldn't the Pound be defined as equal to the weight of one of George Washington's boots or something? |
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Feb 6 2007, 04:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
In any case surely shouldn't the Pound be defined as equal to the weight of one of George Washington's boots or something? Actually, the yard used to be the distance between a liege lord's nose and the tip of his finger on an outstretched arm. No matter that a particular lord's lands had a different length for the yard than anyone else -- it placed his stamp on everything built during his reign. -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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