Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

In article , Capt. Mooron
wrote:

"Cutter Joe" wrote in message
| I see from some of the monikers and such that some of you are from NZ and
| Aus--some of the finest sailing in the world there. I want to go back
soon.

Want Blue water and beautiful sailing?....... try Nova Scotia!!!

For 3 days a year.....

PDW

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

No "et tu brute" eh?

Cheers

Scott Vernon wrote:
can't be me, I'm not stabile.

SV SV SV

"Navigator" wrote in message
...


Jeff Morris wrote:
it had a problem and lost 99% of its reaction gas, which is needed to

keep it stabile.

Are you talking about Doug or Scott?

;)

Cheers

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

No one ever gave me a good explanation, though the orbit was fairly low and the
spacecraft attitude does make a difference. The satellite I worked on before
this one had a more interesting "end of life." As its orbit decayed they found
that they could use the solar panels as wings. They had to come up with novel
ways to use the detectors to make it worth while (it was a non-focusing x-ray
telescope), and they had to work out the aerodynamics of fragile solar panels
skimming in at 17k mph at 100 miles altitude, but since it was controlled
completely from a lab at MIT it became good fun for a group a grad students.
They managed to keep it flying for a number of months.

For me the most intense time was the launch. A midnight launch with seats about
three miles away is an incredible sight - a third of the sky lights up, the
ground shakes, and the 12 story rocket start moving up very, very slowly. 15
seconds later you hear the roar, startling because you don't realize you were
missing a major component of the experience. You start to notice the PA
system - "T + 2 minutes - coming up on Booster Engine Cut Off - 20 miles
downrange - everything is extremely nominal." Five minutes later there's
nothing left to see, and there are a few hundred engineers milling around
mumbling "What a rush!!!" The bars on Cocoa Beach stay open late that night.

I was spared the stress of watching them turn on the hardware a bit at a time
for the next week, but was back in Cambridge for the party as they opened the
lens for "First Light." The data was sent to us immediately, because our
political claim was that we could analyze the data and show it in near real
time, as opposed to about a 6 month delay that most spacecraft projects had.
The bitstream they sent was totally unintelligible! While everyone was
drinking Champagne, my partner and I had to figure out that the telemetry was
completely "bit reversed" because that's how it came raw from the tape
recorder - NASA had never bothered to tell us! From then on, it all started
seeming mundane.


"Navigator" wrote in message
...
I bet that was a rewarding time for you -if a bit nail biting. Why does
the orbit decay faster? I would have thought that a tumbling object
would have the same average drag on the high upper atmosphere or is it
something else?

Cheers


Jeff Morris wrote:

"Navigator" wrote in message
...

Jeff Morris wrote:

This is my telescope:

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-466/p60.jpg

And where is it now?


Dust on the sea ...

It worked great for about a year and a half (scheduled for a 6 month
mission)
but then it had a problem and lost 99% of its reaction gas, which is needed
to
keep it stabile. We managed to keep it going for another 6 months with 24/7
attention, but then resources got diverted to for one of the early shuttle
tests
(where they dropped the mock-up from a plane, I think) and it was lost.
Once
they start tumbling the orbit decays quicker and it burned up in a year or
so.
This was HEAO-2, also known as the Einstein Observatory. In many ways, it
was a
predecessor to Hubble - my boss, Dr. Riccardo Giacconi, became the first
director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and was awarded the Nobel
Prize in 2002.

For goofy pictures of 70's haircuts (fortunately not mine):
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-466/ch6.htm

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

Jeff Morris wrote:
it had a problem and lost 99% of its reaction gas, which is needed to
keep it stabile.

"Navigator" wrote
Are you talking about Doug or Scott?

Scott Vernon wrote:
can't be me, I'm not stabile.

I'm not "stabile" either. But my supply of reaction gas is just fine,
thanks.

DSK

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

As I guessed and you blow it out where?
:P
Cheers?



DSK wrote:
Jeff Morris wrote:
it had a problem and lost 99% of its reaction gas, which is needed to

keep it stabile.


"Navigator" wrote

Are you talking about Doug or Scott?


Scott Vernon wrote:

can't be me, I'm not stabile.


I'm not "stabile" either. But my supply of reaction gas is just fine,
thanks.

DSK

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

Navigator wrote:
As I guessed and you blow it out where?

In your general direction. That's why you react every time.

DSK

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

I mounted my new telescope on my boom. The first night was great, I
discovered a new planet, oddly linear in shape, which I call
Merjupvenars. Unfortunately, I fell asleep without dismantling the
scope, and in the morning, the sun made use of the gentle side to side
sway, and cut my boat in half.
Popeye

"Donal" wrote in message ...
"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
I think the 9.25 is nice scope. I almost got that one. Is that a CGE
mount and a 9.25 with XLT coatings and a CF tube? Are you doing any
photography?

Yup, it's actually my second one as I also had the early version.


I'm very interested in this. I'd like to see what is actually possible with
telescopes that ordinary folk can own.


Would you care to share any of your photographs, or do you have any links to
sites that show what is possible?

I've got a cheap Tasco (optimum mag 105x). I'd like to get something
better, but I know sod all about telescopes.

Regards


Donal
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Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

Cutter Joe asked: Could be. Who's Neal Warren?

If you have to ask, you haven't been ehre long enough....

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Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

LP said: Well, that's okay. We'll have you declawed and there shouldn't be
any
problems!

Much more of this and we can all chip in to have him neutered....


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and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Doug and Katie are Boobs!
 

talk about your unnecessary operations...


"katysails" wrote in message
...
LP said: Well, that's okay. We'll have you declawed and there shouldn't
be
any
problems!

Much more of this and we can all chip in to have him neutered....


--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein