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Comment Re:Longer charge times (Score 1) 88

by wooferhound on Sunday November 16, 2014 @06:47PM (#48398771) Attached to: After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest

There is some power being used by some of the systems even when the lander is in standby mode

Comment Re:the dire equations (Score 1) 88

by wooferhound on Sunday November 16, 2014 @06:45PM (#48398749) Attached to: After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest

Not to mention that they don't know where the lander is.

Comment Re:Oh no (Score 0) 297

by wooferhound on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:50AM (#48350345) Attached to: Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes

It wasn't a car analogy so there was no meaning . . .

Comment Re:Colonoscopy (Score 2) 297

by wooferhound on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:42AM (#48350283) Attached to: Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes

How can you tell difference between a Male microbe and a Female microbe ?
Pull down it's jeans .. .. ..

Submission + - Chinese Space Probe flies around Moon and returns to Earth (theguardian.com)

Submitted by wooferhound on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @08:47AM

wooferhound writes: China has completed its first return mission to the moon with the successful re-entry and landing on Earth of an unmanned probe, state media reported. The mission was launched to test technology to be used in the Chang’e-5, China’s fourth lunar probe, which aims to gather and return samples from the surface in 2017. The military-run space project has plans for a permanent orbiting station by 2020 and eventually to send a human to the moon.
Plus a nice picture of the Moon and Earth in the same frame
http://www.planetary.org/blogs...

Comment Re:Excellent! (Score 1) 104

by wooferhound on Monday November 03, 2014 @11:01AM (#48300943) Attached to: Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms

Realtime attacks as they happen
http://map.ipviking.com/

Comment Re:And? (Score 2) 145

by wooferhound on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:46AM (#48260685) Attached to: Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying

Go to SugarString.com for sugarcoated news

Comment Re:Tip of the iceberg (Score 1) 669

by wooferhound on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:36AM (#48260571) Attached to: Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right

So, the pope is saying that God Created Evolution . . .

Comment Re:Orbital (Score 5, Informative) 443

by wooferhound on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:47AM (#48258091) Attached to: Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch

In the news conference they said that the rocket lost upward momentum at 12 seconds and the Range Safety Officer pressed the destruct button at 20 seconds

Comment Re:Flawless Countdown (Score 2) 443

by wooferhound on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:35AM (#48258039) Attached to: Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch

Did he say FIVE or FIRE ?

Comment Re:Real reason (Score 0) 324

by wooferhound on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:49AM (#48203067) Attached to: Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic

Hungary is hungry for a hungry tax collector . . .

Comment Re:Telescopes and camping or night-tours (Score 5, Informative) 234

by wooferhound on Thursday September 18, 2014 @02:10PM (#47938483) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult?

What is that up there . . .
http://www.stellarium.org/

Comment Re:Spoiler (Score 1) 191

by wooferhound on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:24AM (#47917201) Attached to: Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future

Elevator traffic. At some point you reach an elevator event horizon where adding a new floor on top means losing one or more floors at the bottom due to needing more elevators to move people to those new floors.

You could make the tower into the Anchor Point for a Space Elevator.

Comment Re:Spoiler (Score 1) 191

by wooferhound on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:23AM (#47917187) Attached to: Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future

Or pneumatic elevators, 2 tubes go up and 2 tubes go down.

Comment Re:A good slice of luck. (Score 2) 35

by wooferhound on Monday September 15, 2014 @12:33PM (#47909953) Attached to: European Space Agency Picks Site For First Comet Landing In November

The lander does not have any capability to steer itself once released. The orbiter will reduce it's orbit down to 10km and the lander will be pushed away from the orbiter at walking speed, if there is a boulder underneath, there is no way to maneuver away to another landing location. This is why there is a lot of luck involved.Gravity is very low, if there were an astronaut on the surface they could jump off and achieve escape velocity. The lander does not have any way to slow down when it nears the surface and when it makes contact it will harpoon the surface and use screws to secure it down securely.

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