Posted on 03/08/2024 11:29:46 AM PST by Red Badger
Shades of the movie Siam Sunset? Don’t lay on the ground outside- be a small target.
A shocking development.
See, batteries don’t last. Someone is always throwing some away somewhere!
Yeah, even consumer NiMH batteries seem lighter than their NiCad counterparts.
orbital velocity is around 17,000 mph. Escape velocity is around 25,000 mph.
If you want to pay for the vehicle to grab it and then accelerate it to escape velocity, feel free to give Elon Musk a call.
I don’t know whether to see this as a positive or a negative. In the end watt does it matter anyway?
These are actually Ni/H2. They only contain sintered Nickel and Hydrogen gas in a pressure vessel.
Don’t tell John F’ing Kerry about this happening. He might have ketchup fit.
Like I said, you have to get out of the Earth’s gravitational well (about 7000 mph above orbital speed) and then negate most of the earth’s orbital velocity (an additional 67,000 mph) for a total delta-V of **74,000 mph**. IOW, it’s 4 times harder to go from low earth orbit to the sun as it was to get to low earth orbit in the first place.
It took many years for the Messenger probe to orbit Mercury. The probe used many gravity assists with planets to get the necessary speed for the encounter.
“If you want to pay for the vehicle to grab it and then accelerate it to escape velocity, feel free to give Elon Musk a call.”
Screw it; he’s not calling anyone back. Let the stuff drop to Earth.
Two questions -
1 - Did they perform an environmental impact study?
2 - Who did Germany piss off this time?
Only on a 70s era “Super-Friends” cartoon.
OK, since the Earth’s 75% water, the fish’ll deal with it, then.
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