Posted on 02/25/2003 4:51:06 PM PST by HAL9000
Intergalactic Love Story?
Be thankful I couldn't find a picture of Tipper's nude (and pregnant) self portrait!
If Bill Clinton would go away for good, I'd spring for the 20 bucks.
This is what the aliens will see, regardless of nationality on the graphic:
Alien: I thought it was a menu. SPAM from some delivery service.
HA!
I just scored a Rainbow on Ebay for 67 bucks.
Your welcome :-) BTW, a qualifier on this. All the frequencies travel at the same speed in a vacuum. In the atmosphere (or any other medium), the different wavelengths (frequencies) have a slightly different velocity. This is why a prism works to separate the different colors (frequencies) of light. The index of refraction is slightly different due to the velocity difference.
Naw, just my field. :-) Thanks for the compliment!
My Dad worked for the team that made the power supply for Pioneer (and Viking, etc.). The power supply is called an RTG, radioisotopic thermoelectric generator, but the concept is, in theory, trivial. You build a thermopyle (a bunch of thermocouples in series (or is it in parallel), and you put one pole of it towards the cold of space, and the other pole next to a small pile of radioactively hot material (which remains thermally hot, as well, from low-level nuclear fission). The temperature difference across the thermopyle produces a weak but steady current which powers all the satellite's functions. Of course, that job went with the passing of the Apollo program.
He had also worked on the team that did the original (post Sputnik) ablative heat shields for the KRONOS spy satellites. As I understand it, the idea was that the satellite was launched and made to orbitally fly over the target. It would take its photos and then reenter the atmosphere with the aid of the ablative heat shield and then pop a parachute at high altitude. An air force plane with what amounted to a hook would track the parachute, and grab the thing in mid flight (the size of the rentry vehicle was quite small) and fly it back to the AF base for film processing and sending off to the spooks. About 10 years ago, all this '60's stuff was declassified and the remaining members of the original team got recognized by DoD.
History Lesson, by Arthur C. Clarke. Originally published as a short story in 1949 in Startling Stories. Republished in 1973 in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke, 1937-1955.
Ebay it ;-)
Excellent observation!!!
And they don't have coneheads, either.
The above illustration provides the 1995 location of spacecraft that have passed the orbits of Pluto/Neptune. It appears from the illustration that Pioneer 10 was travelling along the "tail" and may never definatively reach the heliopause. Do we know which direction the tail points, or is the illustrtation taking a guess at that direction?
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