Saw the launch live on TV as I was getting dressed.
Caught pretty much everything from just before the final boost to final power down at work. On board camera was cool, looking up at chutes, chutes, chutes, WATER! Should have put a bit more thought into the drone's flight plan so it would dive below the clouds when Orion did. Higher resolution and frame rate from the chopper would have been nice too. It's not 1970 anymore.
Someone is going to get the butt quietly kicked for the stabilizer ballonns not all working properly.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
120091118 ( 18th November 2009 ) - was a Wednesday !
... and it was the second anniversary of Justin Timberlake's win at the 34th American Music Awards, and three years before Justin Beiber's win at the 39th American Music Awards. Go Justins .... you guys rock !!
Latest news just in : I wish I could be their BFF's
Use your iPhone to Tweet that via FaceBook to your Google+ account then read it on Reddit after you StumbleUpon it while receiving the email from LinkedIn .... :-) :-)
@Phil : I've been bound and gagged inside some evil MaryJane smelling suit for a week. I'm now recovering at Betty Ford .... where all good 1960's hippies hang out.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) There's always that single second after the igniters fire, but before full turbo on the fuel pumps, where the flame licks the bottom of the rocket. I think uneasily : it's OK isn't it ?? Then the full flame rams into the deflector pits and the beast begins to rise. Aha !! ... :-):-)
Those turbo pumps are an amazing piece of engineering, I thought I heard a figure of 300kg per second each. They go from nuthin' to flat out in a couple of finger snaps. However if they don't .... :-(
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Someone is going to get the butt quietly kicked for the stabilizer ballonns not all working properly.
I'm going to kick my own butt for not proofreading that sentence before posting it, even though I was in a big hurry at the time. I did go back and correct properly several times, but I guess I didn't read the rest of it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
:) do please elaborate :) No rush... I have a mother in law to attempt to keep sober for the rest of today... and a daydream of bricking myself up in a room to get me through it :))))))))))))) But I will be back later... :)
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I notice that each of the three main chutes have a different pattern on them. I wonder why ?
Cheers, Mike.
My guess is that the "missing" pattern after deployment would indicate the location position of that parachute on the capsule. They could then "look at that position/location" and try to determine what went wrong.
Did you guys see that they are going to 'float' the Orion capsule into the back of an old ship like the amphib ones the Marines use? They will drop the back door of the ship flooding a huge 'well deck' and then tow the capsule into it. This is supposed to be easier then using a HUGE helicopter trying to pick it up and set it on the deck of a carrier. I HOPE when they actually have people in that capsule they don't leave the guys in the capsule during the tow, they could have some VERY seasick guys if they do. A few days of total and utter calmness and then a landing and tow thru open ocean seas could be a bad thing for those stomachs! AND you can't be too close to the ship in case you actually hit it, I know a million to one, but they were pretty close to their point they were trying to hit as it was.
Did you guys see that they are going to 'float' the Orion capsule into the back of an old ship like the amphib ones the Marines use? They will drop the back door of the ship flooding a huge 'well deck' and then tow the capsule into it. This is supposed to be easier then using a HUGE helicopter trying to pick it up and set it on the deck of a carrier. I HOPE when they actually have people in that capsule they don't leave the guys in the capsule during the tow, they could have some VERY seasick guys if they do. A few days of total and utter calmness and then a landing and tow thru open ocean seas could be a bad thing for those stomachs! AND you can't be too close to the ship in case you actually hit it, I know a million to one, but they were pretty close to their point they were trying to hit as it was.
Thanks Mikey
The Orion capsule looks like an over sized Apollo Command Module ! Nothing wrong with that - Good design )
The Orion flight was 4 Hours 24 Minutes.
The new Horizons Pluto probe (just waking up) takes 4hours 25 minutes to transmit
a signal (at the speed of light) back to Earth !
That is mind boggling ... I didn't realize Pluto was that far away.
Saw the launch live on TV as
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Saw the launch live on TV as I was getting dressed.
Caught pretty much everything from just before the final boost to final power down at work. On board camera was cool, looking up at chutes, chutes, chutes, WATER! Should have put a bit more thought into the drone's flight plan so it would dive below the clouds when Orion did. Higher resolution and frame rate from the chopper would have been nice too. It's not 1970 anymore.
Someone is going to get the butt quietly kicked for the stabilizer ballonns not all working properly.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: 120091118 ( 18th
)
... and it was the second anniversary of Justin Timberlake's win at the 34th American Music Awards, and three years before Justin Beiber's win at the 39th American Music Awards. Go Justins .... you guys rock !!
Latest news just in : I wish I could be their BFF's
Use your iPhone to Tweet that via FaceBook to your Google+ account then read it on Reddit after you StumbleUpon it while receiving the email from LinkedIn .... :-) :-)
@Phil : I've been bound and gagged inside some evil MaryJane smelling suit for a week. I'm now recovering at Betty Ford .... where all good 1960's hippies hang out.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) There's always that single second after the igniters fire, but before full turbo on the fuel pumps, where the flame licks the bottom of the rocket. I think uneasily : it's OK isn't it ?? Then the full flame rams into the deflector pits and the beast begins to rise. Aha !! ... :-):-)
Those turbo pumps are an amazing piece of engineering, I thought I heard a figure of 300kg per second each. They go from nuthin' to flat out in a couple of finger snaps. However if they don't .... :-(
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Someone is going to get
)
I'm going to kick my own butt for not proofreading that sentence before posting it, even though I was in a big hurry at the time. I did go back and correct properly several times, but I guess I didn't read the rest of it.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I notice that each of the
)
I notice that each of the three main chutes have a different pattern on them. I wonder why ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
1054 - the Crab nebula
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1054 - the Crab nebula supernova
1934 - Fritz Zwicky's 'frozen star' hypothesis
1965 - Crab Nebula Neutron Star observed by Antony Hewish and Samuel Okoye / Arecibo
1974 - Message sent to the stars from Arecibo / Hewish gets a Nobel Prize
2009 - Gene sequence sent from Arecibo
1118 - ?????
:) do please elaborate :) No
)
:) do please elaborate :) No rush... I have a mother in law to attempt to keep sober for the rest of today... and a daydream of bricking myself up in a room to get me through it :))))))))))))) But I will be back later... :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
RE: I notice that each of
)
My guess is that the "missing" pattern after deployment would indicate the location position of that parachute on the capsule. They could then "look at that position/location" and try to determine what went wrong.
Did you guys see that they
)
Did you guys see that they are going to 'float' the Orion capsule into the back of an old ship like the amphib ones the Marines use? They will drop the back door of the ship flooding a huge 'well deck' and then tow the capsule into it. This is supposed to be easier then using a HUGE helicopter trying to pick it up and set it on the deck of a carrier. I HOPE when they actually have people in that capsule they don't leave the guys in the capsule during the tow, they could have some VERY seasick guys if they do. A few days of total and utter calmness and then a landing and tow thru open ocean seas could be a bad thing for those stomachs! AND you can't be too close to the ship in case you actually hit it, I know a million to one, but they were pretty close to their point they were trying to hit as it was.
RE: Did you guys see that
)
Thanks Mikey
The Orion capsule looks like an over sized Apollo Command Module ! Nothing wrong with that - Good design )
The Orion flight was 4 Hours 24 Minutes.
The new Horizons Pluto probe (just waking up) takes 4hours 25 minutes to transmit
a signal (at the speed of light) back to Earth !
That is mind boggling ... I didn't realize Pluto was that far away.
Bill
RE: But I will be back
)
Pliz makes sure youz iz :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now