Posted on 08/23/2016 8:45:08 AM PDT by plain talk
Despite almost two years of silence, NASA never stopped searching for its long lost spacecraft STEREO-B. NASA announced Sunday that it had re-established contact with STEREO-B after communications were lost in October 2014. Contact with the spacecraft -- which works in tandem with a second spacecraft STEREO-A to study the sun -- was lost during a test of one of its timers.
Launched in October 2006, the STEREO mission includes two spacecraft -- one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other behind -- tasked with monitoring the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth. The spacecrafts have already successfully revealed the structure of coronal mass ejections, which are eruptions of matter from the sun so powerful they can disrupt satellites.
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Thump...thump...thump....Hey, is this thing on???
Did they ask for more money to get ‘reacquainted’ with it now?
(tag line of an old ad for stereo equipment back in the '70s)
Sorry, for some reason this story reminded me of stereo separation, a subject which has ceased to be of any interest in this age of ear buds and digital audio.
“I am Nomad”
I don’t know what to believe. I thought NASA was all about Muslim outreach.
“....must...sterilze...”
V-Gers is Found?
Kirk and Spok are engaging in banter about the importance of emotion in dealing with females of their respective species, when suddenly Lt. Uhura interrupts...
Uhura: Excuse me Captain, but I'm getting a very faint signal on an obsolete electromagnetic frequency band.
Kirk: Distress signal?
Uhura: Unclear at present, sir. The signal is intermittent, and is coming from a great distance...
Mr. Spok gazes into his status viewer hood. His eyes are illuminated by a green glow from within the device.
Spok: The source of the signal seems to be rather ancient, Captain. Signal properties indicate generation by semiconductor devices of a type last in use during the earliest period of human space exploration.
I very much disagree and can assure you that there are plenty of young men and women who spend a lot of time (and money) to get a "perfect" stereo configuration.
Do we all need to refresh our Morse Code skills?
“CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!”
Did they find it at night?
Blind squirrels or mice? Where’s the cheese?
Really! I thought they all listened to music on hand-held devices.
My children have absolutely zero interest in conventional stereo, as experienced through loud speakers.
I doubt they even know what "a stereo" is. They are constantly plugged in via ear buds.
This is what the stereo pair produce in visual form:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enlil-solar-wind-prediction
Depends on whether they’re living on their own, I suspect.
Personally I prefer ear buds because I can get pretty-good-quality sound all around me for about 20 bucks, or passable-quality for 2 bucks, while a stereo system is a lot more than that for the same quality.
At least from what I’ve seen; I could be wrong!
This happens to me all the time. Replaced the battery in my car key fob and now it’s all good.
I guess I’m just an old fogey with my Magnepan and Audio Research stereo system.
So, it was just plain old positioning that was the fault? They had to wait until Earth and the satellite were no longer on opposite sides of the sun?......................
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