Posted on 06/27/2015 8:59:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Obviously the planets were made with a giant injection mold and some of planet goo leaked out between the two halves of the mold before it cooled.
I went to the NASA site on the Voyager probes the other day. I noted that they were going faster than anything else built by humans (One is going more than 70,000 mph)
and the other thing
They both still had propellent left. Probably for changing their attitudes and aiming their instruments. I find it very impressive.
Or maybe a planet where the equatorial ridge goes around the whole planet and is impassible. Each hemisphere could have different ecosystems, and civilizations that develop independently until they figure out how to build aircraft or tunnel through the thing.
That planet factory from “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” did some shoddy work on some of the outer planets and moons.
Cool, the two sides could have completely different dominant intelligent species!
A huge solar flare event like the one that set telegraph lines on fire in 1859 would not only fry our satellites functionality it would slow the orbit on many chunks of orbital matter enough for re entry.
“What’s a cm? Do they use metrics in space?”
Centimeter. And sometimes they use both metric and ‘American ‘. TheN watch out! As the craft set to land on Mars hit the surface at high speed as kilometers and miles were interchanged.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
Ummm... you have an orbital inversion there. 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
No one else noticed? My coffee must be strongest.
That's backwards! There are 2.54 cm per inch, definitely not 2.54 inches per cm!
Centimeter (1 cm = 0.3937" = 1/2.54).
Because a meter was defined as 39.37", and a cm is 1/100 of a meter.
The original definition of the meter was a fraction of the length from the north pole to the equator, measured along the "Prime Meridian". The actual standard was represented by a platinum bar kept at constant temperature in a vault. Since the North Pole tends to wander around a bit a new "standard" was defined in terms of a specific number of wavelengths of light from a specific type of light. The nature of this standard makes it possible for any metroligy lab at any Standards Bureau in the world to have a primary standard for length.
Regards,
GtG
Gregory Benford used a planet coring cosmic string manipulated by aliens to mine the cores of planets of heavy metals in Tides of Light.
http://www.amazon.com/Tides-Galactic-Center-Gregory-Benford/dp/0446611549
Check out the cover.
Freegards
Oops, thank you, gents! My brain’s definitely snoozing at the wheel a lot lately.
I noticed, but you and Gandalf_The_Gray beat me to it.
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