Banned
Ja ja, but we are talking about russians without alcohol supply here
Dont you know that nothing in russia, including diplomacy is done without a good drink ?
OK! .....Point taken!
.....But HEY!! ...Now that I think about it, the British Navy used to issue a "tot" of Rum a day to all their men!! …….That tradition lasted from 1655 to July 31, 1970!!
During those 315 years, they dominated the Seas: .....Now, in the "Post Rum Years", all they do is squabble about the cost over-runs on their funny looking Aircraft Carriers!
......A pattern begins to emerge!!
klcarroll
Senior Member
If you would give Hillary a bottle of Vodka Stolichnaya (Which has a unusually mild rate of 40 turns per minute) she would surely have much more success on that missile shield issue.
BTW : It seems that we will once again euro-hijack your next space shuttle flight. This time with a man who has a funny name !
Mr. Christer Fuglesang from Sweden who became the first swede in space in 2006.
Just wait until our manned version of the ATV is ready. Then we can fly on our own with the Ariane rocket
Talking about the britishers
ESA also has a british astronaut, Timothy Peake who at the moment trains to become the first briton in space .... in the conventional way !
Conventional because so far Britain did not participate in manned space flights and astronauts had to join NASA and take on the u.s citizenship if they wanted to get into space.
There was also a british woman who went privately into space with the soviet Soyuz TM-12 in 1989 by winning some kind of good-will lottery.
A strange story, especially as i dont understand why the UK actually decided against sending people into space.
Not even along with NASA which really would not cost that much. So i cannot imagine that it was deemed as being too costly.
Anybody knows the backgrounds ?
Banned
Senior Member
Senior Member
Nasa has a first sharp pic of the Jupiter impact crater
LINK
Senior Member
Turn your volume up and listen to this
Sounds of Jupiter
Also, this is an interesting project aswell.
ESA/NASA joint EJSM project (Europa Jupiter System Mission)
Europa is propably the most interesting of all 63 known moons of Jupiter. (No wonder with that illustrious name)
Researchers believe that there could be a 90 km (50 miles !) deep water ocean underneath its thick ice shell.
Jupiter moon Europa
Two possible layouts of Europa
Does anyone know if the Voyager probes also recieved the plaque with instructions on where to find us that the Pioneer probes got ?
Banned
Two possible layouts of Europa
Ah Yes! ....Europa!! Another "Must Go" destination!!
With the amount of surface fracturing, folding, and movement that is visually evident, my money is on the liquid water model!
Remember......., being in orbit around a "gravity engine" like Jupiter would generate massive tidal forces, and sub-surface heating would be a direct result.
If there is life elsewhere in our Solar System, Mars and Europa are the two best bets!
klcarroll
P.S. Hmmmmm...... A 90KM deep ocean! ....Now THERE'S an interesting "Theater of Operations" for SH5!!!
KLC
Senior Member
Ah now i have it !
The Voyager probes do not have the plaque but a golden record.
It contains greeting messages in 55 languages and a collection of music along with instructions how to play the record and at which speed.
From Germany there is Bach , Mozart and Beethoven on it while Chuck Berry and Louis Armstrong and native american Navajo music represents the USA.
Full list here
If aliens might be able to understand the instructions what to do with that record is a different question.
Voyager 2 left our solar system in 2008 after 31 years of flight. On 10. December 2007 it sent data back to earth indicating that our solar system is asymmetrical.
Their radio isotope thermoelectric generators will propably provide power until 2020, maybe 2025.
Senior Member
I think it really worth to see these beauty of the Universe
One of the latest pictures taken by the fixed Hubble telescope .. feels like watching the Universe through HD Plasma or HD LCD ..
