Posted on 07/30/2005 1:46:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Malta was also known for Wright-Malta and the "summer home" of Werner Von Braun while he was helping develop the first rockets for our fledgling space program.
I wonder what Werner would think of the space shuttle and all the money spent on it?
***Two spacewalking astronauts armed with caulking guns, putty knives and foam brushes... ***
Later, a third "red-neck" astronaut emerged from the Shuttle carring a role of duct tape...
Beat me to it!
They could've used McGyver on the mission.
I love the history of duct tape : )))
No kidding. Where's the duct tape and JB Weld?
A complete overhaul of NASA is in order - with new people in decision-making capacities. The decision to send up the shuttle at this particular time was a bad idea. We'll be lucky if the astronauts make it back alive. What was the rush? I heard they were under pressure to launch it. By who? Not by me. Not by the millions of us who wanted to see it go up safely. By who, then?
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How did they get all this stuff past the airport screeners?
So9
The problem is a technical one, not a management one imho.
dear lord, I just saw the same vehicle set up coming home from Long John Silvers...
granted I live in Redneck Kansas, but still.
this particular creation was a mid-80's camaro about 12 feet up in the air on monster tires...
and yes, a rebel flag was involved.
Any physicists out there? I have a question:
If mass/matter causes a gravitational field,
Would antigravity be possible with antimatter?
And if it did, would it be possible to use this antigravity to escape Earth's gravity and achieve orbit?
Anti-matter has the same mass as the equivalent normal matter. The electrical charges are reversed, though. Gravity is the resuly of mass, therefore anti-matter has the same gravity as normal matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
"Today's standard model shows that every particle has an antiparticle, for which each additive quantum number has the negative of the value it has for the normal matter particle. The sign reversal applies only to quantum numbers (properties) which are additive, such as charge, but not to mass, for example. The positron has the opposite charge but the same mass as the electron. An atom of antihydrogen is composed of a negatively-charged antiproton being orbited by a positively-charged positron."
DANG! Can I ask you another related question (While I have your attention)?
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