Nasa, Earthlike planet discovery imminent Options

[TeeHeeHee]

Thanks guys ... got this page up to A3 size now
Treatment Looks promising but those Lady doctors are keepong the promises at a professional Level

[zascot]

Hope things work out THH. If its any help I had a very bad retina detachment(90%) a few years ago and they filled the eye with gas, made me sit still for a week then reattached the retina and it seems to be successful, hold thumbs, I have lost a bit of peripheral vision but I had an eye test today for my drivers licence which we renew every 5 years and it was OK. Anyway holding thumbs for an improvement in your sight.

[Rab]

I have not read this thread for a while, but reading ittonight, I am reminded of space and experiments, including this one which made me fall off my chair laughing.

On 1 April 1976, Patrick Moore, the TV astronomer stated to radio listeners that an astronomical event would take place at 9:47 a.m. that day, a conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto, which was expected to have an effect observable everywhere. As Pluto passed behind Jupiter, it would briefly cause a powerful combination of the two planets' gravitation which would noticeably decrease gravity on Earth. If listeners were to jump into the air at that exact moment, they would find they felt a floating sensation.

Soon after 9:47 on that morning, the BBC began to receive hundreds of telephone calls from people reporting they had observed the decrease in gravity. One woman who called in even stated that she and eleven friends had been sitting and had been "wafted from their chairs and orbited gently around the room".

[DannyH]

Thanks guys ... got this page up to A3 size now :P
Treatment Looks promising but those Lady doctors are keepong the promises at a professional Level :D

Hello TeeHeeHee

Just want to add my good wishes to those you have already received. I always look forward to your posts; you've got a sense of humour that appeals to me.

All the best

Danny Harris

[ashfield]

I have not read this thread for a while, but reading ittonight, I am reminded of space and experiments, including this one which made me fall off my chair laughing.

On 1 April 1976, Patrick Moore, the TV astronomer stated to radio listeners that an astronomical event would take place at 9:47 a.m. that day, a conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto, which was expected to have an effect observable everywhere. As Pluto passed behind Jupiter, it would briefly cause a powerful combination of the two planets' gravitation which would noticeably decrease gravity on Earth. If listeners were to jump into the air at that exact moment, they would find they felt a floating sensation.

Soon after 9:47 on that morning, the BBC began to receive hundreds of telephone calls from people reporting they had observed the decrease in gravity. One woman who called in even stated that she and eleven friends had been sitting and had been "wafted from their chairs and orbited gently around the room".

Rab, that event appears to occur around here almost every Friday and Saturday night, I can hardly hold onto my whisky glass

Tomi, sorry to hear of your woes. We've missed your contributions and I wish you well on the treatment front

[Betsy2009]

Must have been the space dust popping in their heads.

[TeeHeeHee]

In the interest of keeping things on an interesting level where possible and in memory of Rabbie Stirling ...

... who started this thread :-

The Story of Voyager I and Voyager II and the immortality of Check Berry

Watch me here

"You, and every one and every thing that ever lived or ever will live ...
... are here".

Carl Sagan

(who pushed the Mission administrators to turn the vovager to take one last picture of the planets on it's last lap out of the solar system and got this picture of the little blue dot in a sunbeam)

[TeeHeeHee]

... by the way, to all those who wished me well with the eye problem - thanks; and didn't we do well
The biggest oroblem was the "squiggles" which didn't bode well for my future: Solid lines like TV frames, door frames and straight lines in the middle of the road had big squiggles ... but that's all a thing of the past An interserting 12 months with a very arresting result

[TeeHeeHee]

Anytime within the next hour it's Goodby Cassini; one amazing spacecraft as it finally dives into Saturn's atmosphere

Live Stream (simulation)

[TeeHeeHee]

... double postings are becoming the norm I think

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[angel]

Anytime within the next hour it's Goodby Cassini; one amazing spacecraft as it finally dives into Saturn's atmosphere

Live Stream (simulation)

Yes it was an amazing spacecraft ,it had been sending information
to Nasa for I think about 14yrs and kept doing so
during its death throws onto the Planet 'Saturn '

[TeeHeeHee]

SC)TLAND's VERY OWN CAPE KENNEDY?

I had to laugh while reading a year old article concerning the UK's first Spaceport - Located in Sutherland’s A’Mhoine peninsula.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/ju...first-spaceport

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/se...rism-north-uist

What made me laugh was the following paragraph ...

... the UK Space Agency announced it had awarded £23m to the US aerospace group Lockheed Martin, which is expected to fly its Electron rocket from Sutherland. The agency handed a further £5 to Orbex, a British space company which is developing a rocket called Prime.

I can't imagine that£5 going very far in rocket development but bookkeeping was never my strong point.

[JAGZ1876]

I can't imagine that£5 going very far in rocket development but bookkeeping was never my strong point.

With bonfire night coming soon you wouldn't even get a decent firework rocket for £5.

[TeeHeeHee]

You're righy there Jagz

I always wondered where the UK might locate a Spaceport but never gave much thought to the Shetlands. A place somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales might have been out-of-the-way enough but then I guess if the UK can use Scotland to store its nuclear stuff and its subs then Scotland might be as good a place as any.
Even in today's tate-of-the-art rocket technoligy tyhere is still a 20% average of rockets going `up-in-the-air' before getting too far off the launch pad.

In one of those articles above an arguement for the site was that it would bring much needed jobs to the area. awhen asked how many jobs might be on offer the answer was 70.
When asked how many of the locals would be given the oportunity of filing these jobs the answer was maybe 8 yo 14.

ai guess that might include gardeners and canteen staff ... as well as the ocassional window cleaners.
The RSPB - Roal Society for the Protection of Birds - are standing behind the islanders.

[JAGZ1876]

The clearest image ever taken of Mercury.

https://twitter.com/ZonePhysics/status/1178821921842044934