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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 9:22pm 2004

Yeah, I'm sure they're pissed that they have to go out every time their scientists make a better mirror system. The calibration on that thing must be a bitch.

"s**t, a rock hit it again"
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Posted by $loth on Thu Mar 18th at 9:23pm 2004

so they spent all that money making it so that it can die?

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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 18th at 9:23pm 2004

? posted by Crono
Yeah, I'm sure they're pissed that they have to go out every time their scientists make a better mirror system. The calibration on that thing must be a bitch.

"s**t, a rock hit it again"
"Dammit, we just got back"

Maybe thats why they built the ISS. So that they could have a permanent repair staff for the thing

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Posted by $loth on Thu Mar 18th at 9:26pm 2004

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Yeah, I'm sure they're pissed that they have to go out every time their scientists make a better mirror system. The calibration on that thing must be a bitch.

"s**t, a rock hit it again"
"Dammit, we just got back"

Lmao

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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 9:44pm 2004

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Maybe thats why they built the ISS. So that they could have a permanent repair staff for the thing


Probably ... But there's a lot of stuff they could design and build, but they wont because it doesn't seem cost effective. Like artificial gravity. Well, actually that's wrong, because if you do it through centrifical (I totally buchard that word) force it IS gravity ... anyway, they haven't developed that. They also haven't developed a flight cruiser that can EASILY enter and return into the Earths atmosphere. Why would you want this? Well because, it would take no longer then 90 minutes of flying to get anywhere on Earth. But, there's heat issues and gravity issues as well as the G-Force ... not the nVidia kind. [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Mar 18th at 10:07pm 2004

Well centrifuges are cool things, they should try making one properly to see how effective it would feel, plus for the astronaughts- they would be able to stay in space for longer lengths of time because bone errosion would be slower.

As for knowing how far away planets are I think (from my Physics days) they use "Red Shift" factors or something.

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Mar 18th at 10:44pm 2004

Myrk-

Doppler shifting (comonly know as the "red shift") is used to determain the distance of anything which emmits light, because the farther away somthing is in the universe, the faster it moves away from us due to the expansion of the universe. I do not know what method they would use for finding the distance of an object such as this new "planet".

WC-

One possibility is to measure the distance between two telescopes looking at the planet and measure the angle at which they see it. from this, the distance could by obtained through triangulation. obveously, the uncertainty in such a method would increase with the increasing distance of th object being measured.

once you know the distance, diameter is simply a matter of measureing it's it's angular size.

temperature could possibly be measured by observing the black-body radiation of the planet. if you get enough light for it, the calculation is quite simple.

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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 18th at 11:48pm 2004

Tracer, will you be my physics tutor? lol [addsig]



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Posted by Skeletor on Thu Mar 18th at 11:56pm 2004

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I want to know when the Japanese satalite will be launched to the moon to see if the rover is still there lol.

In other words, when are they going to try to disproove Nasa's supposedly staged moon landing?

"But the set for the moon landing is at Area 51"
"Fine, cancel the shoot and lets really land on the moon"

lol.

Um, wasn't it China that was going to the moon?

And I believe Sedna is referred to as a "planetoid". (Thanks to the Daily Show! )

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Posted by Crono on Fri Mar 19th at 12:35am 2004

Was it? I just remember hearing about it, so. [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Mar 19th at 3:03am 2004

meh who cares, as someone already said they find a new 10th planet all the time... [addsig]



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Posted by Andrei on Fri Mar 19th at 8:27am 2004

I thought the 10th planet was Vega, a huge "rock" orbiting the Sun. Oh, BTW, they called it Quaoar, not Sedna. [addsig]



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Posted by Hugh on Fri Mar 19th at 8:30am 2004

Err, I read in the paper they called it Sedna. It'd be weird if they renamed it, but meh, scientists are weird like that.



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Fri Mar 19th at 5:02pm 2004

There is a small dispute wether someone who finds a planet/planetoid has the right to name it. [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Mar 19th at 5:03pm 2004

No no...

First there was Planet X, then Quoao or whatever, now theres Sedna. They are all "10th Planets" lol!

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Posted by Andrei on Fri Mar 19th at 6:14pm 2004

There was another name...urm, something beginning with N...me forgot. [addsig]




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