Comment Re:Units, sigh. (Score 1) 315
It's 260 meters tall, and the diameter of the rotor is 220 meters.
Source: labelled image in TFA, the definition of the foot, and math.
Comment Re: How many planets do you want (Score 1) 194
Neck bone.
Comment Re:Having a do-over (Score 1) 634
Bad math doesn't prove yours.
33,551,983 voters
* Remain = 16,141,241
* Leave = 17,410,742
33,551,983 voters
* 20% "educated" = 6,710,397
* 80% "uneducated" = 26,841,586
6,710,397 "educated" voters
* 53% Remain = 3,556,510
* 47% Leave = 3,153,886
% "educated" voters amongst Remain = 3,556,510 / 16,141,241 = 22.03% > 20%
% "educated" voters amongst Leave = 3,153,886 / 17,410,742 = 18.11% < 20%
The fraction of educated voters in the leave camp is therefore lower than in the general voting populace.
Comment Re:Translation: Another 50-state wonder (Score 2) 43
You *do* realise that all the Golgafrinchans who *weren't* on the B ark, died, right? Wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone...
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 3, Interesting) 194
"cis" literally means "on this side of", just as "trans" literally means "on the other side of".
cis-lunar space can be loosely defined as that part of space that is within half a million km from Earth (which includes the Moon itself, as well as all the Earth-Moon Lagrange points).
Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 188
Over 6.4 billion kilometers, actually...
The oft-stated 510 million kilometers is merely the current distance between Earth and 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
It's taken Rosetta quite a journey to be able to match orbit with the comet.
Comment Re:Whoa, tiny planet!! (Score 4, Informative) 58
Mercury's diameter is 2.11 times that of 134340 Pluto, but its mass is 25.3 that of the puny dwarf planet.
Discounting metallic hydrogen on Jupiter and Saturn, Mercury's definately the most Metal planet in the solar system.
Comment Re:The most needed upgrade (Score 2) 161
AC is in for a wonderful discovery: Real numbers
Comment World's Largest? (Score 2) 77
Maybe there is another, larger one that got approved a few months ago?
Submission + - Soyuz Breaks Speed Record to ISS (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: A manned Soyuz spacecraft set a record for traveling to the International Space Station (ISS), arriving six hours after launch instead of the usual two days. Soyuz 34 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, March 28 at 4:43 p.m. EDT (08:43 GMT) and docked with the ISS at 10: 28 PM EDT (03:28 GMT). It was able to catch up and match trajectories with the ISS in only four orbits using new techniques previously tested in ISS rendezvouses with Russian unmanned Progress cargo ships.
Comment Re:Metric Mixup (Score 0) 75
As far as I know, everybody uses Parsecs. 1 pc = 648000 / PI * 149597870700 m ~= 3.0856775814913676 * 10^16 m.
Comment EVE Online rule #1 (Score 1) 308
"Don't fly what you can't afford to lose."
Comment yet another conversion error (Score 3, Informative) 198
Juno's mass is listed as 3625kg, or almost 8000 pounds, not almost 8 metric tons.
As for the energy obtained from "falling several hundred million miles": that would be exactly the same energy it took to get that far "up" in the first place (not saying that there's no energy to steal from Jupiter, but it's a pretty hair-brained plan, imho, not in the least because such a trajectory would probably take the better part of a decade to complete).
Comment Re:makes sense (Score 1) 215
Last time I checked, the Pacific was shrinking; You might be confusing it with the Atlantic and its mid-oceanic ridge.
Of course, over a sufficient timespan, your argument might hold water (or rare earth elements); Then again, with enough time it'd apply to every centimeter of the Earth's surface.
Comment Re:Heat energy. (Score 1) 127
Wrong: see Libration
