[Vo]:Mysterious Object Imaged from ISS

2018-12-07 Thread Terry Blanton
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/746841/NASA-conspiracy-alien-news-iss-international-space-station-blue-object-cut-live-feed-video Quote: Gigantic 'object' spotted towering over Earth from ISS – before NASA live feed is CUT Video at web site. Terry > *Listen, this

Re: [Vo]:OT..Russia bans ISS and Russian Rockets

2014-06-07 Thread Daniel Rocha
The only news about space business, I could find in the last 24h, searching on google, was Russia seeking to increase cooperation... -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

[Vo]:OT..Russia bans ISS and Russian Rockets

2014-06-07 Thread Ron Kita
Greetings Vortex-L, It is 100am..am I reading this wrong? http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/07/russia-bans-us-from-international-space-station-ho.aspx Ron Kita, Chiralex Doylestown PA

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-13 Thread Standing Bear
The assumption of sanity may not hold with Sunni Arabs who have shown capabilities of treachery and duplicity and insanity rivaling even the Catholics at the time of the Inquisition. Look how they call westerners 'crusaders' when the most successful 'crusaders' against Moslems was Ghengis Khan.

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-12 Thread Wesley Bruce
Well said Jed. Jed Rothwell wrote: Wesley Bruce wrote: We can't rule out a collapse of communism in China or a shattering of the peoples republic, both would be messy, very messy. Not necessarily. The collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe was calm and orderly, with practically

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-10 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:10:45 -0500: Hi, [snip] >"All eight members of the Pennsylvania school board that had been sued for >introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to >evolution in biology class were swept out of office Tuesday by a sla

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Wesley Bruce wrote: We can't rule out a collapse of communism in China or a shattering of the peoples republic, both would be messy, very messy. Not necessarily. The collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe was calm and orderly, with practically no casualties. Of course Russia still

Re: iss Then why would you need "a hell of a bumper bar"?

2005-11-10 Thread Grimer
At 10:44 pm 08/11/2005 -0500, Standing Bear wrote: >Already have a 'bumper bar' in the form of some 'new' 'old' physics. >That is 'Davis mechanics'. The Army even makes practical use of >it for its tank gunnery. A hard shell can penetrate because of the >high 'onset of acceleration' of the struc

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-09 Thread Wesley Bruce
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Standing Bear's message of Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:52:00 -0500: Hi, [snip] Hasn't Iraq provided the military industrial complex with enough profit yet? They need a war with China as well? I assure you, after any such war, there would be no military industrial

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Standing Bear's message of Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:21:00 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Robin and all, > Nobody wishes more than I that we not be in our present >situation. I spent many years in the service of my nation and >know first hand about this enemy and what they are capable of. >My ex wife

Re: iss Then why would you need "a hell of a bumper bar"?

2005-11-08 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Standing Bear's message of Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:44:47 -0500: Hi, [snip] I wonder if this is why flying saucers are saucer shaped? (A field generated around the perimeter would deflect everything either above or below the rest of the craft). >Already have a 'bumper bar' in the form of s

Re: iss Then why would you need "a hell of a bumper bar"?

2005-11-08 Thread Standing Bear
On Monday 07 November 2005 23:50, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:00:45 > +1100: > Hi, > [snip] > > >A continuous acceleration flight at one g, a tenth of a g or 0.01g; > >results in a maximum speed at the mid-point that is very fast so the >

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-08 Thread Standing Bear
Robin and all, Nobody wishes more than I that we not be in our present situation. I spent many years in the service of my nation and know first hand about this enemy and what they are capable of. My ex wife who is from Viet-Nam can tell you more. Much more! The plain unhappy fact is that we ar

Re: iss Then why would you need "a hell of a bumper bar"?

2005-11-07 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:00:45 +1100: Hi, [snip] >A continuous acceleration flight at one g, a tenth of a g or 0.01g; >results in a maximum speed at the mid-point that is very fast so the >relative velocity is huge even if you hit a tiny piece of matter, a >micr

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-07 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Standing Bear's message of Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:52:00 -0500: Hi, [snip] Hasn't Iraq provided the military industrial complex with enough profit yet? They need a war with China as well? I assure you, after any such war, there would be no military industrial complex left (or much of anyth

Re: ISS OT

2005-11-07 Thread Standing Bear
Repost of originals follows comment on reply. One of my wargames is a flight combat similator. An experienced fighter pilot was used as a technical advisor to the game. He adds some cogent commentary: There is no substitute for victory. The biggest problems combat pilots face

iss Then why would you need "a hell of a bumper bar"?

2005-11-07 Thread Wesley Bruce
A continuous acceleration flight at one g, a tenth of a g or 0.01g; results in a maximum speed at the mid-point that is very fast so the relative velocity is huge even if you hit a tiny piece of matter, a micro-meteorite or a flake of paint from another ship. Micrometeorites are fast enough the

Re: ISS

2005-11-06 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:36:36 +1100: Hi, [snip] >>>If you could run a drive at one g continously Mars is 3 to 5 _days_ away >>>but you'd need a hell of a bumper bar. >>> >>> >> >>How long would it take if you accelerated then decelerated? >> >That is the tim

Re: ISS

2005-11-06 Thread Wesley Bruce
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:14:02 +1100: Hi, [snip] About the same. The time frame is not acceleration limited. Its limited by orbital windows. Some have proposed making a cycler using ISS modules. The minimum fuel option

Re; ISS & Recycling old Ideas?

2005-11-06 Thread Frederick Sparber
Things change, or do they?   Ten years ago on CompuServe  Cold Fusioneer Jed  Rothwell was being flamed by Forum Sysop Tom LeCompte,and  Frank E. Reed, (University of Illinois) and the Brit Alan Dunsmuir, and the gal Mahariqe van Gans (sp) as AOL was getting the Internet started as it is now. L

Re: ISS

2005-11-05 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:14:02 +1100: Hi, [snip] >About the same. The time frame is not acceleration limited. Its limited >by orbital windows. Some have proposed making a cycler using ISS >modules. The minimum fuel option is a cycler. A cycler i

Re: ISS

2005-11-04 Thread Wesley Bruce
Standing Bear wrote: [Big snip] Don't panic about a chinese space race. I suspect that if China really gets going it will spell the end of communism. People are dropping out of the party buy the millions. To many chinese who see the opportunities of space, are also able to see that gulags o

Re: ISS

2005-11-04 Thread Wesley Bruce
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:09:42 +1100: Hi, [snip] Firstly the ISS is the dry dock not the ship. It is actually doing quite a lot of quiet science; learning to live in space *was* the original objective. The ISS would not surv

Re: ISS

2005-11-03 Thread Standing Bear
On Thursday 03 November 2005 01:29, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:09:42 > +1100: > Hi, > [snip] > > >Firstly the ISS is the dry dock not the ship. It is actually doing quite > >a lot of quiet science; lea

Re: ISS

2005-11-03 Thread Standing Bear
On Thursday 03 November 2005 01:16, Wesley Bruce wrote: > That's the key. JP aerospace to orbit; people and supplies. A Heavy lift > craft for anything bigger. Podkletnov's device could be made into a > reactionless drive if we can get reliable mass production of his disks > and steady high voltage

Re: ISS

2005-11-02 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:09:42 +1100: Hi, [snip] >Firstly the ISS is the dry dock not the ship. It is actually doing quite >a lot of quiet science; learning to live in space *was* the original >objective. >The ISS would not survive a trip to M

Re: ISS

2005-11-02 Thread Wesley Bruce
esday 02 November 2005 21:09, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: Hi, Since the ISS isn't doing a great deal of good science where it is, why not use it to go to Mars? Since it's already in Earth orbit, it should cut down on the cost considerably. I would love to go to space.in a re

Re: ISS

2005-11-02 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Standing Bear's message of Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:32:35 -0500: Hi, [snip] >On Wednesday 02 November 2005 21:09, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since the ISS isn't doing a great deal of good science where it >> is, why not use it to go to Mars?

Re: ISS

2005-11-02 Thread Wesley Bruce
Firstly the ISS is the dry dock not the ship. It is actually doing quite a lot of quiet science; learning to live in space *was* the original objective. The ISS would not survive a trip to Mars. It would not survive the required acceleration, and it would not carry enough supplys to make the

Re: ISS

2005-11-02 Thread Standing Bear
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 21:09, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > Hi, > > Since the ISS isn't doing a great deal of good science where it > is, why not use it to go to Mars? Since it's already in Earth > orbit, it should cut down on the cost considerably. > I would

ISS

2005-11-02 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
Hi, Since the ISS isn't doing a great deal of good science where it is, why not use it to go to Mars? Since it's already in Earth orbit, it should cut down on the cost considerably. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the