Shuttle launch scrubbed again today...
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Ray Cassick wrote:
We will never make it into deep space if we can't even handle lightning.
Then we are about 100 years from entering deep space. As Marc said, lightning is a massive chaotic event. If we could "handle" lightning we wouldn't have energy problems either. We barely understand a fraction of the lightning events, so we are far from "handling" it in any form. It is a massive backlash of electricity in multiple directions, a bolt to the ground and plasma flash to the sky and radio-wave interference of amazing power. The largest bolt recorded by satelite, melted a small island to glass. Lightning cannot be "handled" in any way yet, it can only be channeled away to "minimize" its destructive power, but even in doing so, it is still incredibly destructive, beyond anything we are able to handle. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ray Cassick wrote:
That makes 2 scrubs in as many days.
Ah, good - it'll be nice and clean once they finally get it off the ground...
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Shog9 wrote:
it'll be nice and clean once they finally get it off the ground...
no matter how many scrubs it will never be clean.... first they land a shuttle in New Mexico, get gypsum sand embedded in it, scrub it which only gets the gypsum into the scrubbing equipment, and now nothing ever gets clean again. Nothing that lands in New Mexico ever gets completely clean. ;) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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The crew are sitting on a few hundred tonnes of metal and fuel... It was one of the Apollos that went up on the pad. The tigress is here :-D
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Ray Cassick wrote:
That makes 2 scrubs in as many days.
Ah, good - it'll be nice and clean once they finally get it off the ground...
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Ray Cassick wrote:
We will never make it into deep space if we can't even handle lightning.
Uh, lightning is not something one "handles", like some spilled milk. Lightning results in catastrophic events. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Yeah, I know, but I would think that we could 'deal' with it better than we do. It is just hard to believe that lightning is even on the worry list. I am no electrical engineer but I would think that we could deal with a strike if we had to. Actually I would think that this is something we already needed to fit into the equation just because of all the static that can build up hurdling that big object at supersonic speeds through the humid air of Fla.
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if your government would pay less for Iraq, it could invest more into NASA and for example into a new space shuttle program ;-)
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Ray Cassick wrote:
That makes 2 scrubs in as many days.
Ah, good - it'll be nice and clean once they finally get it off the ground...
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Shog9 wrote:
Ah, good - it'll be nice and clean once they finally get it off the ground...
And we all know a clean shuttle is a happy shuttle! :-D
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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if they launch they'll be the biggest rocket going up on Independance day :) media will have a field day with all the metaphors and so forth Bryce --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
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Yeah, and if our government paid less for the cold war, then Germany would be part of the Soviet Union right now. ;P
Not so sure about that. Upon reflection -- and having more historical knowledge of the internal deterioration of the Soviet Union -- it appears more that it imploded on its own weight more than from anything we did. Essentially, communism can't work because it is founded on an incorrect understanding of human nature. Matt Gerrans
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Ray Cassick wrote:
We will never make it into deep space if we can't even handle lightning.
Uh, lightning is not something one "handles", like some spilled milk. Lightning results in catastrophic events. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Commercial aircraft get hit by lightning from time to time. It use to be no big deal but the rise of microelectronics, fly by wire etc make it a bit more of a risk ;) As long as there isn't a ground path and enough metal in the skin to conduct the flow without melting what's the worst that can happen ;P
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Not so sure about that. Upon reflection -- and having more historical knowledge of the internal deterioration of the Soviet Union -- it appears more that it imploded on its own weight more than from anything we did. Essentially, communism can't work because it is founded on an incorrect understanding of human nature. Matt Gerrans
