
title="My country's World Cup win was exciting and all, but c'mon, what if the players wore nylon wings and COULD LITERALLY FLY?"
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xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
cellocgw wrote:Some crazy guy suggested null-buoyancy blimps for living in Venus' atmosphere. Why couldn't we do this on Jupiter as well?
orthogon wrote:Pseudo-edit: Echo244 may be making the same joke as me, it's hard to be sure...
orthogon wrote:Pseudo-edit: Echo244 may be making the same joke as me, it's hard to be sure...
Mokurai wrote:There was a story including a nude Olympic hundred-meter dash in vacuum on the moon, but I don' t remember the name of the story or the author, and Google isn't helping me on this.
flicky1991 wrote:Forum Games: Beavertails likes pie.
Beavertails wrote:2: Why don't we have an observational satellite at the Sun–Earth L3 Lagrange Point?
Beavertails wrote:I have what might be 2(ish) easier questions to answer.
1(ish): Why does the ISS orbit so closely? Is there an advantage to orbiting at that altitude?
2: Why don't we have an observational satellite at the Sun–Earth L3 Lagrange Point?
Why don't we have in-between-sized planets?
Mokurai wrote:In what most of us are pleased to call real life (while some are of course angry about it), there is the 300 Degree Club at the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Research Station where they have the big Ice Cube neutrino telescope. When it gets to a hundred below in the winter, they crank the sauna up to 200. Sit in there naked until you are thoroughly toasty, or rather steamed through, and then head out the door wearing only running shoes, and around the nearby South Pole marker and back in.
Mikeski wrote:A "What If" update is never late. Nor is it early. It is posted precisely when it should be.
patzer's signature wrote:flicky1991 wrote:I'm being quoted too much!
Neil_Boekend wrote:Mokurai wrote:In what most of us are pleased to call real life (while some are of course angry about it), there is the 300 Degree Club at the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Research Station where they have the big Ice Cube neutrino telescope. When it gets to a hundred below in the winter, they crank the sauna up to 200. Sit in there naked until you are thoroughly toasty, or rather steamed through, and then head out the door wearing only running shoes, and around the nearby South Pole marker and back in.
I have been in a sauna at 110°C and that takes training. You would really need to be an addict to have been in a sauna so often that 200°C is non-lethal. And I didn't know the temperature on the south pole dropped beneath the sublimation point of carbondioxide.
plytho wrote:Isn't bowling just a subcategory of pottery?
kalira wrote:Neil_Boekend wrote:Mokurai wrote:In what most of us are pleased to call real life (while some are of course angry about it), there is the 300 Degree Club at the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Research Station where they have the big Ice Cube neutrino telescope. When it gets to a hundred below in the winter, they crank the sauna up to 200. Sit in there naked until you are thoroughly toasty, or rather steamed through, and then head out the door wearing only running shoes, and around the nearby South Pole marker and back in.
I have been in a sauna at 110°C and that takes training. You would really need to be an addict to have been in a sauna so often that 200°C is non-lethal. And I didn't know the temperature on the south pole dropped beneath the sublimation point of carbondioxide.
Knowing nothing about this topic, I would guess conversion to freedom units might make slightly more sense (and slightly fewer dead bodies)? 93.33°C (200°F) to -73.33°C (-100°F). Of course, I can't comprehend temperatures that distant from the norm anyway.
Why don't we have in-between-sized planets?
The largest “terrestrial” planet is generally considered the one before you get too thick of an atmosphere, which happens at about 5-10 Earth masses (something like 2 Earth radii). Those planets are more Earth-like than Neptune-like.
Neil_Boekend wrote:Mokurai wrote:In what most of us are pleased to call real life (while some are of course angry about it), there is the 300 Degree Club at the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Research Station where they have the big Ice Cube neutrino telescope. When it gets to a hundred below in the winter, they crank the sauna up to 200. Sit in there naked until you are thoroughly toasty, or rather steamed through, and then head out the door wearing only running shoes, and around the nearby South Pole marker and back in.
And I didn't know the temperature on the south pole dropped beneath the sublimation point of carbondioxide.
da Doctah wrote:Add my question to the list: Why is there no way to pronounce Io without sounding like a screaming looney?
(Same question, but substitute Quaoar.)
sotanaht wrote:What's so wrong with "Eye-Oh", other than that it sounds like "I owe"?
Why does Iapetus have a belt?
No, a buffalo.RogueCynic wrote:If Mars has a face on one side, does it have an ass on the other?
sotanaht wrote:da Doctah wrote:Add my question to the list: Why is there no way to pronounce Io without sounding like a screaming looney?
(Same question, but substitute Quaoar.)
What's so wrong with "Eye-Oh", other than that it sounds like "I owe"?
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
da Doctah wrote:Add my question to the list: Why is there no way to pronounce Io without sounding like a screaming looney?
(Same question, but substitute Quaoar.)
Quercus wrote:Now can we please get back to astronomy, it's far more interesting to read about than apologetics for the "default male" position.
ilduri wrote:Back to the actual topic, my solar system question is why do the earth and the moon seem to have an almost identical chemical make-up? Why doesn't the moon have any chemical traces of the giant impactor that we think caused it in the first place?
Mikeski wrote:A "What If" update is never late. Nor is it early. It is posted precisely when it should be.
patzer's signature wrote:flicky1991 wrote:I'm being quoted too much!
AluisioASG wrote:191 years ago, the great D. Pedro I drew his sword and said: "Indent thy code or die!"
ColletArrow, katakissa, iskinner, thunk, GnomeAnne, Quantized, and any other Blitzers, have fun on your journey!lmjb1964 wrote:We're weird but it's okay.
River Song wrote:Spoilers!
Mikeski wrote:A "What If" update is never late. Nor is it early. It is posted precisely when it should be.
patzer's signature wrote:flicky1991 wrote:I'm being quoted too much!
ebow wrote:Beavertails wrote:I have what might be 2(ish) easier questions to answer.
1(ish): Why does the ISS orbit so closely? Is there an advantage to orbiting at that altitude?
2: Why don't we have an observational satellite at the Sun–Earth L3 Lagrange Point?
1: Easy(ish) to resupply.
2: (a) It would be complicated to communicate with a satellite at that location, (b) it would be tricky to acheive that orbit, (c) L3 is unstable, (d) I don't expect you'd learn anything new from that location, and (e) the inhabitants of the planet hidden there have spent a lot of money influencing space program missions to ensure we don't send anything their way.
Essah wrote:how do you "hide" a planet... I mean, planets are big vast spheres, and there's not that many things to hide behind in space
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