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Oct 4 2006, 01:22 AM
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QUOTE That's both undesirable and probably impractical, but the phenomenon you describe suggests that, with a degree of control, it might be possible to intentionally illuminate small areas on the Earth's surface for short periods of time, which could be useful in certain instances. The US military had a plan to illuminate the Vietnamese jungles at night by launching modified LEMs with huge inflatable mirrors attached into orbit. It seemed fairly plausible, though incredibly expensive (then again, compared to the cost of the Vietnam war, maybe a few Saturn V launches wouldn't be so costly after all!). |
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Oct 10 2006, 06:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
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Oct 10 2006, 06:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
The 'cast has begun...
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Oct 24 2006, 04:07 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 24 2006, 05:35 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 17-September 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 499 |
Ja! Seriously, this is about time. After this our media might finally focus on something else. |
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Oct 24 2006, 06:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
That is "är det någon som vill säga några ord på Svenska", and Celsius certainly didn't invent the thermometer, he invented the centigrade scale. And seriously adam, you can't really hope that swedish media would be interested in something so politically incorrect as spaceflight. tty |
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Oct 24 2006, 08:25 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 17-September 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 499 |
That is "är det någon som vill säga några ord på Svenska", and Celsius certainly didn't invent the thermometer, he invented the centigrade scale. And seriously adam, you can't really hope that swedish media would be interested in something so politically incorrect as spaceflight. tty The only space-related thing that Swedish media is "interested" in is this (atleast it seems like that, everytime i check aftonbladet there's a new "Fuglesangs space travel delayed" article), so I hope they can finally cover something else spaceflight related, since his mission might create some kind of brief spaceflight/astronomy interest. But I guess your right, since most swedes seem to consider space science/travel/whatever as a huge waste of money. |
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Oct 26 2006, 08:58 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Put your eyes in the sky!...
+ Live Docking on NASATV today: October 26, Thursday 10 a.m. - ISS Progress 23 Docking to the ISS Coverage (docking occurs at 10:28 a.m.) - JSC (Public and Media Channels) -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 26 2006, 05:03 PM
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According to BBC, the docking has failed
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Oct 26 2006, 05:13 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Sounds like they may just need to get the antenna folded, then re dock.
""There was some problem with achieving a perfect seal," he said. "We have had such incidents before and it is not something extraordinary." Sounds fixable. |
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Oct 26 2006, 05:48 PM
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Oct 31 2006, 03:10 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Just caught it going overhead....part built shedoffice at the bottom there Doug Great! At the indicated time here on sunny Portugal was still too bright to see something -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Nov 9 2007, 10:45 AM
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Nov 9 2007, 02:47 PM
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Well this being an ISS topic, I would like to point out 2 books, unavailable via Amazon so a bit unknwon, but 2 excellent (technical detailed) volumes!
The 2nd has all color portraits of male & female astronauts who performed an EVA to help constructing the ISS: http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.asp.../id/169/l/en-us http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.asp.../id/279/l/en-us |
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Nov 12 2007, 11:58 PM
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