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Quote: VCUSkyhawkWhat is the purpose for this? What are we hoping to learn?
Click the link. They discuss that at length there. The stream is embedded in a Web page of discussion about the mission.
Starry skies for the launch. Should not be a weather delay.
I just clicked and read. Pretty interesting.
Quote: VCUSkyhawkDamn it babs, I was hungry for knowledge and wanted you to spoon feed me ;)
I just clicked and read. Pretty interesting.
Yep.
This is actually a really big deal.
Parker Probe has been more than 10 years in preparation and employed more than 100,000 Americans. Their budget is 1.5 Billion.
It's going to fly for 7 years, slingshotting between Venus and the Sun, getting closer each time.
They're doing 3 things.
Briefly, they're learning about the solar wind, which affects movement of objects in space at the particulate level and other things.
They're learning about solar weather, how to predict it, and deal with the repercussions of flares, radiation, and the electronic interference and destruction the sun can cause
And they're trying to understand the Corona and how it works, its density and properties, and solve a big mystery. The actual surface of the sun is only about 10,000°. But somehow the Corona boosts the temperature as it radiates the core's heat away, into millions of degrees.
They also expect to get a lot of more general physical information about all stars from studying ours.
Quote: beachbumbabsYep.
This is actually a really big deal.
Parker Probe has been more than 10 years in preparation and employed more than 100,000 Americans. Their budget is 1.5 Billion.
It's going to fly for 7 years, slingshotting between Venus and the Sun, getting closer each time.
They're doing 3 things.
Briefly, they're learning about the solar wind, which affects movement of objects in space at the particulate level and other things.
They're learning about solar weather, how to predict it, and deal with the repercussions of flares, radiation, and the electronic interference and destruction the sun can cause
And they're trying to understand the Corona and how it works, its density and properties, and solve a big mystery. The actual surface of the sun is only about 10,000°. But somehow the Corona boosts the temperature as it radiates the core's heat away, into millions of degrees.
They also expect to get a lot of more general physical information about all stars from studying ours.
How is this a big deal? We supposedly played golf and rode a dune buggy on the f*cking moon almost 50 years ago! ;)
This is a joke and the fraud that is gov space programs needs to end. Lots of starving people on "planet" earth.
#defundNASAwiththequickness
We should send 50 of them and hire 5 million.Quote: beachbumbabsYep.
This is actually a really big deal.
Parker Probe has been more than 10 years in preparation and employed more than 100,000 Americans. Their budget is 1.5 Billion.
Earth is a safe place until it isn't with a handful of mass extinction events. We need to learn to get off the planet, to diversify our species.Quote: RogerKintHow is this a big deal? We supposedly played golf and rode a dune buggy on the f*cking moon almost 50 years ago! ;)
This is a joke and the fraud that is gov space programs needs to end. Lots of starving people on "planet" earth.
#defundNASAwiththequickness
Quote: onenickelmiracleEarth is a safe place until it isn't with a handful of mass extinction events. We need to learn to get off the planet, to diversify our species.
You are making us out to be way more important than we really are.
Quote: onenickelmiracleEarth is a safe place until it isn't with a handful of mass extinction events. We need to learn to get off the planet, to diversify our species.
If you scurred go to church.
Don't worry tho you're in good hands with NASA wweeee
#carumbrellasaresupersciency
Quote: RogerKintHow is this a big deal? We supposedly played golf and rode a dune buggy on the f*cking moon almost 50 years ago! ;)
This is a joke and the fraud that is gov space programs needs to end. Lots of starving people on "planet" earth.
#defundNASAwiththequickness
I'm sure you won't miss all your phones/internet/satellite not working the next solar flare or whatever knocks them out. Which is one of the things they're trying to figure out.
I'm guessing they're gonna come back with two conclusions:
1. It's a globe and
2. It's warming
Quote: RogerKintHow is this a big deal? We supposedly played golf and rode a dune buggy on the f*cking moon almost 50 years ago! ;)
This is a joke and the fraud that is gov space programs needs to end. Lots of starving people on "planet" earth.
#defundNASAwiththequickness
I agree. So much can be done with 1.5b.
first to start to guess about it having something to do with nuclear physics was 1904
from what I can tell, the guess in 1920 was the first time the concept of nuclear fusion was ever entertained, we really knew nothing about it ... less than 100 years ago!
Not that long ago! I'm sure we still have a lot to learn
I don't know but any site that won't let you look and see the prices but instead insists on your signing up right away surely won't be getting my business.Quote: RigondeauxWhat's the deal with the Wish app?
Worthwhile or scammy?
I'm guessing that all of this stuff is not actually 95% of the retail price.
Cheap junk from China? What isn't?
Works best with a slice of lime.Quote: beachbumbabsAnd they're trying to understand the Corona and how it works
Quote: beachbumbabsBig launch tonight.
Spent almost two hours out on the beach last night (Cocoa Beach), hoping for a nice view of the launch. Finally got word that the launch was aborted. Read this morning that it is now re-scheduled for Sunday morning, so I have to decide whether to go through that exercise once again.
I did learn two things during last night's dry run through:
(1) My phone's internet connection was unreliable out on the beach, and the NASA live feed site stopped loading. This meant we lost contact with the countdown. I was able to find a blog site with some NASA tweets that indicated the delays, but I had to rely on reports from others on the beach that the launch had been scrubbed.
(2) Apparently, I don't really understand how to use the camera on my phone. I had planned to try to shoot a video of the launch, but I discovered that I don't know how to turn off the light that the phone camera wants to shine to illuminate the entire night sky. Maybe I'll look into that a bit more before tonight or just abandon the whole idea.
Quote: DocSpent almost two hours out on the beach last night (Cocoa Beach), hoping for a nice view of the launch. Finally got word that the launch was aborted. Read this morning that it is now re-scheduled for Sunday morning, so I have to decide whether to go through that exercise once again.
I did learn two things during last night's dry run through:
(1) My phone's internet connection was unreliable out on the beach, and the NASA live feed site stopped loading. This meant we lost contact with the countdown. I was able to find a blog site with some NASA tweets that indicated the delays, but I had to rely on reports from others on the beach that the launch had been scrubbed.
(2) Apparently, I don't really understand how to use the camera on my phone. I had planned to try to shoot a video of the launch, but I discovered that I don't know how to turn off the light that the phone camera wants to shine to illuminate the entire night sky. Maybe I'll look into that a bit more before tonight or just abandon the whole idea.
Hi Doc! There are optical lens attachments for cell phone cameras available at many retailers. You may want to check them out today to see if their zoom improvement is helpful. Have fun! I hope you post the video for us to enjoy.
Quote: DocSpent almost two hours out on the beach last night (Cocoa Beach), hoping for a nice view of the launch. Finally got word that the launch was aborted. Read this morning that it is now re-scheduled for Sunday morning, so I have to decide whether to go through that exercise once again.
I did learn two things during last night's dry run through:
(1) My phone's internet connection was unreliable out on the beach, and the NASA live feed site stopped loading. This meant we lost contact with the countdown. I was able to find a blog site with some NASA tweets that indicated the delays, but I had to rely on reports from others on the beach that the launch had been scrubbed.
(2) Apparently, I don't really understand how to use the camera on my phone. I had planned to try to shoot a video of the launch, but I discovered that I don't know how to turn off the light that the phone camera wants to shine to illuminate the entire night sky. Maybe I'll look into that a bit more before tonight or just abandon the whole idea.
We sat in the driveway the whole launch window ourselves. We will be doing it again tonight. Window opens at 3:31. I also was getting some lag and breakup from the video feed. The NASA Twitter feed did a decent job of telling us what the delays were as they happened, and they had a link there to watch the live feed that was slightly better than the one I sent you.
If you are going to do it again, I will backstop you with texts containing updates if you would like. Let me know via text.
It will be worth getting up to see it if it goes. Promise. Especially from your vantage point.
They are flat too. You're getting confused because they are all disk shaped.Quote: djatcHow is it that all other planets other than Earth are round, but Earth is flat? Checkmate
Quote: AyecarumbaI hope you post the video for us to enjoy.
In case it is not obvious, I almost never record video with my phone. While I did pick up a new lens for my SLR in preparation for the eclipse last year, I will not likely buy photo accessories for my phone.
If I do get watchable video of the launch, I will try to post it. I think I have only posted video once (maybe twice?) before, so I'll have to check whether there is anything special I need to do.
Quote: djatcHow is it that all other planets other than Earth are round, but Earth is flat? Checkmate
I rest my case
Quote: RogerKint
I rest my case
Both types of shoes are made. The second type is used to walk around the circumference part of the disk that is Earth.
Quote: ChesterDogQuote: RogerKint
I rest my case
Both types of shoes are made. The second type is used to walk around the circumference part of the disk that is Earth.
Lol...
You going to play this year, CD?
(1) My phone's internet connection was unreliable out on the beach,
wifi booster perhaps?.
(2) I don't know how to turn off the light that the phone camera wants to shine to illuminate the entire night sky.
Small piece of duct tape? Beer can holder wrapped around the phone?
Note: I think the window starts at 3:31 so the countdown could start earlier and they might actually press the button at 3:31. I heard something about a helium leak detector sounding off at T minus two minutes on the previous attempt.
Quote:A historical French theme park has six new workers: crows that will fly around collecting cigarette butts and small pieces of garbage in exchange for food.
If a crow deposits a piece of trash into a small box placed in France's Puy du Fou park then a nugget of bird food will pop out. The six birds are rooks, a type a crow that is "particularly intelligent," according to the park president.
"The goal is not just to clear up, because the visitors are generally careful to keep things clean" but also to show that "nature itself can teach us to take care of the environment," Nicolas de Villiers of the Puy du Fou park, in the western Vendee region, told Agence France Presse.
Crows have been trained to collect other items in a similar way.
In 2008 a man created a "crow vending machine" — a box that would dispense a peanut every time a crow found a coin and put it in the machine's slot. The inventor, Josh Klein, surmised at the time that if a crow can be trained to collect coins it can be trained to help improve human lives, such as picking up trash or sorting electronics.
Quote: rxwineTime to get birds off their feathered butts.
I love.this!
Reminds me of one of the coolest things the Coast Guard ever tried. It might still be operational.
They trained pigeons to peck on a window when they saw something orange. Pecking would get them seed every so often or something.
So, they put them in a glass turret underneath a C130 rescue plane. 3 pigeons, whose line of sight was 120° each, blocked from each other, and put sensors in the glass.
Then they flew over the ocean, grid searching, with people in life vests in the water. The pigeons could see them about 15 miles away. They would peck on the glass, and the cockpit would get an alert, and steer in the direction the pigeon indicated. The accuracy worked in all kinds of weather, as long as there was daylight, and was better than anything humans could do in spotting downed pilots or sailors.
The mindless garbage of the funny book, and people who are still really into playing with toys as adults have really contaminated the genre.
I'm hoping The Equalizer can come to the rescue.
Pigeon pecking was attempted in WWtwo for bomb guidance, it didn't work then.
I don't know about the Coasties having any similar projects but searching over the ocean visually is extremely difficult and it is necessary to avoid constantly staring at the ocean's surface.
By the way, burglary does not require the burglar to enter the structure since causing a trained animal to do the entering is sufficient. The trick is NOT to open any boxes. One thief in a casino got entire boxes of black chips because the auditors only counted the boxes at the back of the cashier's draws but counted the actual white red and green chips at the front of the draw. Finally one auditor opened a box and the black chips felt a bit unusual and he readily determined it was counterfeit, but no one knew how long the fake chips had been there.
I think that would be a fantastic application for a bunch of hi tech drones.Quote: FleaStiffI don't know about the Coasties having any similar projects but searching over the ocean visually is extremely difficult and it is necessary to avoid constantly staring at the ocean's surface.
The drones don't care how lousy the weather is, and they seldom get tired. Grid searches on the cheap.
Quote: DocSpent almost two hours out on the beach last night (Cocoa Beach), hoping for a nice view of the launch. Finally got word that the launch was aborted. Read this morning that it is now re-scheduled for Sunday morning, so I have to decide whether to go through that exercise once again.
I did learn two things during last night's dry run through:
(1) My phone's internet connection was unreliable out on the beach, and the NASA live feed site stopped loading. This meant we lost contact with the countdown. I was able to find a blog site with some NASA tweets that indicated the delays, but I had to rely on reports from others on the beach that the launch had been scrubbed.
(2) Apparently, I don't really understand how to use the camera on my phone. I had planned to try to shoot a video of the launch, but I discovered that I don't know how to turn off the light that the phone camera wants to shine to illuminate the entire night sky. Maybe I'll look into that a bit more before tonight or just abandon the whole idea.
Cool. If it's dark enough you can catch the perseids too. I'm surprised the Space Force is launching rockets in the middle of a meteor shower!
As for solar science and the mission at hand of course it is important to understand solar science. An understanding of how solar phenomena work will enable satellite designers to build more efficient designs to protect from solar radiation which will increase satellite life and reliability, for example. It may provide insight on how we want be able to propel satellites into deep space faster without costing a bundle of weight and rocket fuel to get us there faster.
I have a deep level of disdain for people who think public spending on science is useless. Mssions in space almost always lead to scientific breakthroughs, invention and innovations. This is usually because such endeavours require a high level of engineering and physics requiring the best people to accomplish these challenges.
PS I got to see a rocket launch at Canaveral many years ago. I was in Orlando on training and when I learned about the launch Inp ditched the training and found da piece od dirt off the A1A to watch the launch. Itnspwas something to cross off the bucket list.
Well, we did get to see a launch tonight, and I captured something on my phone's video recorder. Looks as if posting it will have to wait until I get home -- I can't seem to get it transferred to my computer and from there to my hosting site. The video is too large to send as an email attachment, and I don't seem to be able to establish either blutooth or direct wi-fi connections between the phone and computer here in the motel. I think I can do that just fine on my own LAN. Maybe I can take care of that some time on Tuesday.Quote: boymimboI got to see a rocket launch at Canaveral many years ago.
Edit: Yep, even a USB cable isn't doing the job for me. Posting will definitely have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Today we woke up and went to diggerlandusa. They were calling for storms but we decided to go anyways. There were only about 40 other people in the park and no lines. It turned out to be 80 and sunny all day. Great day at the park. After the park we went to AC. I did tier match at hard rock. My mother also did so the 4 adults ate free buffet and the kids were free too. Played at the pier for a little with tickets that we had left over from last year. I spent $30 today and still have my free play to use from the tier match.
I am tired so no gambling today. Hopefully tomorrow night I will play and continue the good luck.
How lucky. My turn.Quote: GWAEwell after I typed the last post I layed down. I couldnt sleep so I took $40 downstairs. I ended up hitting a royal on the first $10 coin in. My first Royal in 2 years. I ended up playing until 5am and ended the night +700. That is huge for a cheap/poor low roller. That will be enough to finance the rest of the trip.
Quote: GWAEwell after I typed the last post I layed down. I couldnt sleep so I took $40 downstairs. I ended up hitting a royal on the first $10 coin in. My first Royal in 2 years. I ended up playing until 5am and ended the night +700. That is huge for a cheap/poor low roller. That will be enough to finance the rest of the trip.
Saaa-WEET! Nice hit!
Quote: DocPosting will definitely have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Regarding my video efforts for the 8/12/18 launch of the Parker Solar Probe:
We were at Cocoa Beach, FL, just north of the pier and in a pretty-good-sized crowd of folks hoping to see a launch, since we were disappointed with the scrubbed event the night before. That point on the beach is approximately 12 miles south of launch complex 37, where the missile began its flight.
I had only a cell-phone camera with which to attempt to capture the flight, with no telescopic lens and no tripod or other stabilizing accessories. The missile appears pretty much as a tiny bright dot. I have not seen a track of the missile’s path, but my impression (as we watched it zoom upward) was that it may have headed southward (closer to our position) and then eastward. That impression may have been completely hallucinatory.
Most of the sounds that you can hear on the video are a combination of crowd noise and the nearby surf. When I was a youngster, we learned a rule of thumb: although the speed of sound in air is temperature dependent, a reasonable estimate in most cases is one mile in five seconds. (We used that to help guess the distance of a lightning strike, by counting the seconds before we heard the thunder.) The 12-mile separation between the launch site and our observation post translates into roughly a minute before the sound of the missile launch could reach us.
I was a couple of seconds late getting the video started, but sure enough, right about 1:01 into the video you can begin to hear the motor’s roar. It continues throughout the remainder of the 3:13 recording, which I ended when I wasn’t sure I could see anything any more.
While we were watching the flight, there was a small sense of disorientation, since the sound was coming from a very different direction than that in which we could see the missile while hearing the sound. Yes, the missile had travelled a fair distance during that minute while we were waiting for the launch sound to reach us. That eye/ear disorientation is not a problem when viewing the video.
Anyway, here’s the link. It might be easier to see if you view it full screen. When I viewed it on YouTube, they had added some NASA videos set to run right after mine ended. I didn't look at that stuff, but you might be happier just to skip my video and go straight to the good stuff.
Quote: onenickelmiracleHad a nightmare yesterday where humanoid life-like robots were killing everyone alive on Earth, in 4 days. Quite chaotic, I woke up thankful it was just a dream.
No lifeform, it wasn't a dream. Location please?
Walmart or Best Buy, remember being in a big box kind of store, people were trying to climb on top of refrigerators. Now this detail, the androids toyed with me, wanted me to do some kind of reverse power drive, where you really wanted to try breaking their necks, but were too afraid if you failed, they would kill you as soon as you failed, when you already knew they were going to kill you and everyone else as soon as they could.Quote: rxwineNo lifeform, it wasn't a dream. Location please?
Some day this could happen when the world elites are so powerful, they realize they don't need billions of people anymore and can do something about ridding the world of mass human waste.
Quote: onenickelmiracleWalmart or Best Buy, remember being in a big box kind of store, people were trying to climb on top of refrigerators. Now this detail, the androids toyed with me, wanted me to do some kind of reverse power drive, where you really wanted to try breaking their necks, but were too afraid if you failed, they would kill you as soon as you failed, when you already knew they were going to kill you and everyone else as soon as they could.
Some day this could happen when the world elites are so powerful, they realize they don't need billions of people anymore and can do something about ridding the world of mass human waste.
This is morbid and depressing! :/
Not a single lotto player will survive.Quote: NathanThis is morbid and depressing! :/
Quote: GWAEput $200 into Hard Rock online after kids went to bed. They have a 100% match for new customers. I turned it into $1600 playing monopoly movers. My new favorite game. Its been a damn good week. With this 1600 and the 1k from the other day we have decided to extend our trip 2 days down in wildwoods.
Winning is fun. Nice to hear the vacay is running good.
Quote: GWAEput $200 into Hard Rock online after kids went to bed. They have a 100% match for new customers. I turned it into $1600 playing monopoly movers. My new favorite game. Its been a damn good week. With this 1600 and the 1k from the other day we have decided to extend our trip 2 days down in wildwoods.
I would advise you to be wary and careful doing online gambling. Lots of horror stories of players being scammed doing online gambling. :/And even when the transaction is completely legit, there is the damn long waiting period. You press cash out and have to wait days to get the money. :/
