SpaceShipTwo can accelerate as much as 3.8 g during accent and up to 6 g during reentry. I don't think they will be sending him up if there is even the slightest risk to his health.
Reference: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/12/07/spaceshiptwo-whiteknighttwo-specs-flight-profile/
Four cosmonauts have stayed for 365 days or longer continuously in space during the 1990's. The record for the longest space flight being held by Valeri Polyakov who stayed on the Mir space station from 1994 - 1995. Russian achievements are often obscured because of the uncomparable public involvment by NASA.
See: Ten Longest Space Flights
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Wanda Says:
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
-- Copper, Interstellar (Movie) (2014)
it will be really a defeat of humanity if the weapons make it to space. it's a one way street like the nuclear weapons. more over space debris from a war in space would trap us on earth.
here is our chance to stop this from happening:
"The Bush administration's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is now calling for public comment on their Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Public comment is due by November 17, 2004. People from all countries are urged to send comments." (see URL below for more details)
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/actions/pub
Date: 2nd April 2004
Location: Partapur Air Field, Near Meerut
A wholly different experience to see a mammoth hot air balloon suspended in the air with it's envelop glowing beautifully from outside. The prinicipal: Hot air rises up, the air inside the envelop is heated till the balloon becomes lighter than the air.
Sanath and me were there as astronomy instructors at the aviation camp organised for GE Capital people.
Had a great time at the Brian Adams concert held at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in New Delh today. We were fortunate to be standing very close to the stage.
Completed 100 WU's (2935 hr 19 min) for SETI@home today! A big deal for me as I have been using SETI@home for 4.693 years now and had only done about 12 WU's till about 4 months back, since then I have been running my home AMD K6-2 350 MHz system 24X7, only downtimes are due to power outages. Even then my home system accounts for only about 40% WU's, credit for the rest goes to the P-3's at my place of work.
But who knows? Maybe asteroid and comet impacts are one of Nature's ways of 'flushing' us off of the planet in order to give it time to heal itself from the damage we've inflicted through our habitation.
it feels good to know that nature is ultimately more powerful and it knows how to regenerate. though it surely would be a triumph for our species if we are able to sustain ourselves without needing an asteroid impact.
just feeling glad to witness the space age!
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
-- Johnny Hart
we don't know what lies OUTSIDE(if this word can still be used) the universe, where it is expanding into. my brain return a big blank when i try to imagine anything beyond the universe, nothing beyond the universe i imagine makes any sense, the presence of the universe in the first place only seems highly unlikely. oooh...it getting so complicated, my neural net is overloading
Last night, Ajay, Sagnik, Neelam and me had our first view of Mars this month through Ajay's 8" Meade LX200 (with magnification reaching over 300). It was amazing, for the first time in my life have I seen mars so clearly and with albedo features on it visible so sharply. Syrtis Major, Mare Sirenum, Mare Serpentis (see this map) were very prominent. South polar ice cap was very bright and literally seemed shining
yipeee...
I have 5 moderator point (first time)
"Use 'em or lose 'em!"
be nice to me today
here is a little fortune cookie:
Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.
Not a very productive day, felt lazy for the most part. Cant go on like this.
Watched Star Trek TNG after about 2-3 months.
Will start afresh early tomorrow morning. Plan to read the Linux Network Administrators Guide tomorrow to prepare for an interview with Saitech Systems on 5th for the requirement of Linux sys admin at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
