The moon's rotational period is tidally locked to its orbital period, so that, on average, it keeps the same side (the near side) facing the earth. During a lunar month, the moon experiences one day.
Posted on 03/18/2006 4:10:56 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
BWAHAHAHA! I love it.
Drowned control to major Ted
Drowned control to major Ted
Take your seat belt off and put your life jacket on
“This is major Ted to Drowned Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the car is look very different today
I know numerous people that work at JSC outside of Houston. People that have worked there during the "old days". According to them, NASA is a wreck.
I only wish I could go out there, but I am too old and stuck here.
Quick re-write...
Drowned control to major Ted
Drowned control to major Ted
Take your seat belt off and leave your date for dead.
“This is major Ted to Drowned Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the car is look very different today
Oh boy, this could be good parody.
Dear God, please let it be Ted Kennedy!!
If Kennedy were to leave the Earth, the liquor industry would be lobbying for a federal bailout.
LOL. And the gravitational pull that his mass generates as it leaves the planet would cause the Earth would wobble out of orbit.
The moon's rotational period is tidally locked to its orbital period, so that, on average, it keeps the same side (the near side) facing the earth. During a lunar month, the moon experiences one day.
Anybody who spells program as programme is mired in the glorious past of the pre-eminence of science. The space program is to preserve America's pre-eminence in space.
The moon program can land the four astronauts on the moon for up to a year at a time. However, their search for water might be better carried out by a series of drillbots in separate launches.
Said by an experimentalist who is morphing into an existentialist. Not to be confused with a humanist.
“This is major Ted to Drowned Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the car is looking very different today
For here
I am trying save my fat ass
Far above the law
Mary Jo is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
The aliens aren't going to like this!
Needs more cowbell.
I have to admit to feeling somewhat guilty when I pop off on this subject. I can't help it. I am angry about what happened. I am angry that NASA continues to get away with it. We could just as easily as not have had another failure on the last launch, but basically lucked out.
I appreciate your comment. I'm sure neither of us gains any pleasure by realizing that what you say seems to be undeniably true.
"Drowned control to major Ted."
for those who don't get it...
Ground control to major tom
The thing that angers me is that in about 60 years we went from the Wright brothers first flight to a moon landing. 40 more years later we've done little else in the way of manned space exploration.
...your eyes are getting heavy. You're feeling woosey. You are... "Blech!" You suddenly feel the urge to get a towel and wipe my shoes off. Once you have you will awaken and not remember any of this.
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