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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Space Stuff and Launch Info.According to Spacenews: My non-expert guess would be that some temperature parameter was exceeded as a result of the longer burn needed...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Collection of Science Jokes P2.I always wondered how they managed "synchronous orbit above the south pole of the planet".
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TIL about Ewin Howard Armstrong:
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I have just seen a tshirt featuring Schrödinger's Opossum. You don't know if it's alive or dead even after opening the box.
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Jonathan Scott reacted to renormalize's post in the thread A Looking for linear frame dragging formula with
Informative.
Here's a link to a 2005 paper with a comprehensive treatment of the subject: A model for linear dragging that contains references to... -
Jonathan Scott replied to the thread A Looking for linear frame dragging formula.Thanks very much - that's much better than anything I found so far. But it's a lot to digest to get the value of a simple constant...
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Jonathan Scott posted the thread A Looking for linear frame dragging formula in Special and General Relativity.Linear frame dragging is the effect predicted by General Relativity that if a gravitational source is accelerated, this produces a small...
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Jonathan Scott replied to the thread Random Photos.The bus is turning towards the left of the picture, which will take it in a loop round the station. The "Look Right" bit is one-way...
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