Humor: Lagrange points
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Bob K: I am familiar with the positions and properties of La Grange points. What I am trying to determine is why they are humorous.
Perhaps the old Kilt Sage would explain why he started this thread?
I find La Grange point to be neither humorous or very entertaining - only a convient localized graviity point where space junk accumulates.
Let's gather around and start a lynch mob.
Perhaps the old Kilt Sage would explain why he started this thread?
I find La Grange point to be neither humorous or very entertaining - only a convient localized graviity point where space junk accumulates.
Let's gather around and start a lynch mob.
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Caesar had his brutus, it looks like kilty has his ColinT. we'll be keeping an eye on you bucko!
ya, i don't think they're very funny either. at one time this whole thing was part of the 'forum terms' thread but kilty decided it didn't 'belong' there and what kilty wants, kilty gets.
[bob waves to yet another member of the arsclan]
ya, i don't think they're very funny either. at one time this whole thing was part of the 'forum terms' thread but kilty decided it didn't 'belong' there and what kilty wants, kilty gets.
[bob waves to yet another member of the arsclan]
Words of wisdom about hippies from Neil Young circa 1970:
"Soldiers are gunning us down,
Should have been done long ago."
"Soldiers are gunning us down,
Should have been done long ago."
The Reality Dysfunction
I enjoyed the explination, as it reminds me of one of my now favorite series from Peter F Hamilton.
One of the crucial points in the series is a ZZT (faster than light) jump using the lagrange point as the jump cannot be made within the influence of gravity.
The timing and attitude of 'Lagrange' Calvert... it's perfect reading. Makes me long to be the hero I am not.
One of the crucial points in the series is a ZZT (faster than light) jump using the lagrange point as the jump cannot be made within the influence of gravity.
The timing and attitude of 'Lagrange' Calvert... it's perfect reading. Makes me long to be the hero I am not.
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If my whole world is to be destroyed - So be it
If my fate is to die - I must simply laugh
If my life is to change - Let it change
If my whole world is to be destroyed - So be it
If my fate is to die - I must simply laugh
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Re: The Reality Dysfunction
Would that be the Night's Dawn or the Greg Mandell Series? Or are they another series not listed by Peter HamiltonCrimson wrote:I enjoyed the explination, as it reminds me of one of my now favorite series from Peter F Hamilton.
I have not read any of these - so was unsure of the plot element of which you speak... But I am interested. Any series of books that somebody names as their "favourite" deserves a look...
kilt
The wonderful thing about not planning
Is that failure comes as a complete surprise
And is not preceded by a period of worry or depression
Is that failure comes as a complete surprise
And is not preceded by a period of worry or depression
Nights Dawn, I may re-read it again soon now I am thinking about it.
Just for the way it handles death, and the lead up to the end which you could see coming, but did not admit to yourself.
It even finishes off nicely, though I'll not say anything else for fear of ruining the story (is it just me that likes to know as little as possible about the book before reading?)
Just for the way it handles death, and the lead up to the end which you could see coming, but did not admit to yourself.
It even finishes off nicely, though I'll not say anything else for fear of ruining the story (is it just me that likes to know as little as possible about the book before reading?)
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If my life is to change - Let it change
If my whole world is to be destroyed - So be it
If my fate is to die - I must simply laugh
If my life is to change - Let it change
If my whole world is to be destroyed - So be it
If my fate is to die - I must simply laugh
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more interesting Lagrange info:
The James Web Space Telescope is going to be placed in a Lissajous orbit [An orbit which winds around a torus (doughnut-shaped manifold) but which never closes on itself] about L2.
so now we have/are going to have observational satellites at both L1 and L2. interesting.
The James Web Space Telescope is going to be placed in a Lissajous orbit [An orbit which winds around a torus (doughnut-shaped manifold) but which never closes on itself] about L2.
so now we have/are going to have observational satellites at both L1 and L2. interesting.
Words of wisdom about hippies from Neil Young circa 1970:
"Soldiers are gunning us down,
Should have been done long ago."
"Soldiers are gunning us down,
Should have been done long ago."
faster than light travel
For the interested amongst you, a copy of a discussion about Faster than Light travel please visit http://www.charlespellegrino.com for the text of an article regarding that interesting subject... the Valkyrie Antimatter Rocket thinktank.
Once at the site go to biography, research then the Valkyrie research link.
Once at the site go to biography, research then the Valkyrie research link.
Relativistic robots and the feasibility of interstellar flight
Project Valkyrie: Making Star Trek real
The Valkyrie Antimatter Rocket:
Begun at Brookhaven National Laboratory brainstorming sessions in 1984, Project Valkyrie, like the neutron telescope, dating the Shroud of Turin, exploring the Titanic, and most other “officially non-official projects,â€
I thought I recalled hearing somewhere that there was a new initiative underway towards improving the transit times for our exploration robots reaching the middle and outer planets ... something of an essential pre-requisite step towards eventual manned exploration of Mars. Obviously, that means renewed emphasis on interplanetary propulsion technology research.
Have you heard anything on this ?
Have you heard anything on this ?
Ok, I finished reading the Project Valkyrie segment - VERY interesting.
I learned a few things enroute too ... like the fact that Tungsten attenuates gamma rays, which I'd thought were a lot less shieldable. Someone needs to contact the boys over at Marvel Comics, and encourage them to revise the 'comicbook physics' they use in "The Hulk" series.
I learned a few things enroute too ... like the fact that Tungsten attenuates gamma rays, which I'd thought were a lot less shieldable. Someone needs to contact the boys over at Marvel Comics, and encourage them to revise the 'comicbook physics' they use in "The Hulk" series.