You don't need hindsight to know that these pair of supporters are in for a World of Hurt:
Claret and Blue spells Aston Villa F.C. to me. 🙄
Haven't won anything for 50 years! In fact all of Birmingham's clubs are useless. 😀
Quite honestly, muckers, go 10 miles down the road and follow the "Sky Blues" aka Coventry City rather than "The Scum". It'll be more exciting. 🙂
Claret and Blue spells Aston Villa F.C. to me. 🙄
Haven't won anything for 50 years! In fact all of Birmingham's clubs are useless. 😀
Quite honestly, muckers, go 10 miles down the road and follow the "Sky Blues" aka Coventry City rather than "The Scum". It'll be more exciting. 🙂
Lookalikes:
Did anyone notice, as I did, the uncanny resemblance between that supporter on the left and system7? I wonder if we are related? 😀
You don't watch the right team! Follow The Sky Blues! Another entertaining relegation dogfight!
Rotherham United v Coventry City highlights - YouTube
You don't want to miss Liam Kelly's thumping 20 yard volley at 14s, drawing a miraculous save from Rotherham goalie Johannson. He tipped it onto the crossbar! 😱
Did anyone notice, as I did, the uncanny resemblance between that supporter on the left and system7? I wonder if we are related? 😀
You don't watch the right team! Follow The Sky Blues! Another entertaining relegation dogfight!
Rotherham United v Coventry City highlights - YouTube
You don't want to miss Liam Kelly's thumping 20 yard volley at 14s, drawing a miraculous save from Rotherham goalie Johannson. He tipped it onto the crossbar! 😱
It's an odd boy who doesn't like Sport, IMO. 😱
Anyway back to Science News... Elon Musk has won the Moon Contract. A cool $3Bn.
Nasa chooses SpaceX to build Moon lander - BBC News
I am not totally up to speed on this, but that is a flippin' big rocket, IMO.
Since the last 2 Starships have crashed and burned on landing, we can only hope for the best. 😀
Anyway back to Science News... Elon Musk has won the Moon Contract. A cool $3Bn.
Nasa chooses SpaceX to build Moon lander - BBC News
I am not totally up to speed on this, but that is a flippin' big rocket, IMO.
Since the last 2 Starships have crashed and burned on landing, we can only hope for the best. 😀
Coincidently, Channel 4 is showing "First Man" at 9pm tonight.
I didn't get the chance to see the movie on Blu-ray before my elder son waltzed off with it!
Aren't you a sci-fi fanatic? Had you hung on a bit you'd have noticed the narrator's voice modulate momentarily to the same frequency as the clown.🙂
And let's not forget Pigs in Space!
The Muppets | Pigs in Space | “Alien: Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” - YouTube
I thought I'd check out how many animals have been sent into space.
A wide variety of animals have been launched into space, including monkeys and apes, dogs, cats, tortoises, mice, rats, rabbits, birds, frogs, and insects.
The Montgolfier Brothers kicked it all off by sending a sheep, a duck and a rooster aloft in a hot air balloon to see if ground dwelling animals could survive at high altitudes (the duck was the control).
The sad thing is that someone prior to me had searched for the answer to the question "Is Laika the dog still in space?"
Animals in space - Wikipedia
A wide variety of animals have been launched into space, including monkeys and apes, dogs, cats, tortoises, mice, rats, rabbits, birds, frogs, and insects.
The Montgolfier Brothers kicked it all off by sending a sheep, a duck and a rooster aloft in a hot air balloon to see if ground dwelling animals could survive at high altitudes (the duck was the control).
The sad thing is that someone prior to me had searched for the answer to the question "Is Laika the dog still in space?"
Animals in space - Wikipedia
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OK, it may only have flown for 39.1 seconds, but the Mars Ingenuity helicopter is an amazing piece of technology.
Because the density of the atmosphere of Mars is only 1/100th that of Earth's, liftoff from Mars is equivalent to flying at 30,000m above Earth, an altitude that existing helicopters have not yet reached.
To generate the required lift, Ingenuity's rotor blades have to rotate at 2,400 rpm compared to the 500 rpm of an Earth helicopter's main rotor blades.
Because the density of the atmosphere of Mars is only 1/100th that of Earth's, liftoff from Mars is equivalent to flying at 30,000m above Earth, an altitude that existing helicopters have not yet reached.
To generate the required lift, Ingenuity's rotor blades have to rotate at 2,400 rpm compared to the 500 rpm of an Earth helicopter's main rotor blades.
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The gravity is also much less on Mars, so the required lift is lower. Nevertheless, generating lift in such a thin atmosphere is quite an achievement!
Very impressive! Masses 1.8kg. Flies for 90 seconds on a daily Lithium Ion battery charge. The panel on the top is a solar panel plus antenna.
Hovers at 5m and can travel 300m and return.
Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
I was interested in how it is controlled, since it must be fairly autonomous given the time lag from Earth:
Ingenuity (helicopter) - Wikipedia
Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running Linux operating system and algorithms. Not a full AI then... but amazing that everything worked on such a complex project.
Yes - fantastic achievement. No doubt NASA (and by extension their sub cons) have done amazing things with remote robotics over the last 2 decades.
"Ginny" has made the second test-flight successfully. Nothing too ambitious. They are still learning. 5m up, 2m sideways and back and return to ground. 60 seconds. Filmed by "Percy". 3 more scheduled flights to go. Each more ambitious.
Nasa'''s Ingenuity helicopter makes second Mars flight - BBC News
4 astronauts on their way to the Space Station on a reused SpaceX falcon rocket and dragon capsule. Spectacular pictures:
US Dragon crewship launches to space station - BBC News
I wonder what the G-force is on take-off? Must be like someone sitting on your chest. 😱
Nasa'''s Ingenuity helicopter makes second Mars flight - BBC News
4 astronauts on their way to the Space Station on a reused SpaceX falcon rocket and dragon capsule. Spectacular pictures:
US Dragon crewship launches to space station - BBC News
I wonder what the G-force is on take-off? Must be like someone sitting on your chest. 😱
What I also found interesting, Steve, is the "Moxie" device which has managed to extract 5g of oxygen from Mars' predominately carbon dioxide atmosphere.
This represents a quantity of oxygen sufficient to allow an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes.
Nasa'''s Ingenuity helicopter makes second Mars flight - BBC News
Unfortunately, the by-product of the oxygen extraction process is poisonous carbon monoxide.
This represents a quantity of oxygen sufficient to allow an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes.
Nasa'''s Ingenuity helicopter makes second Mars flight - BBC News
Unfortunately, the by-product of the oxygen extraction process is poisonous carbon monoxide.
The G-force depends on the rocket's payload and a quick search reveals that, for a crew mission to the ISS, the acceleration at MECO (main engine cutoff) will be roughly 3G.
This is in the rollercoaster range rather than the 6-8G a fighter pilot experiences in a tight turn.
Astronauts say riding Falcon 9 rocket was “totally different” from the space shuttle – Spaceflight Now
Moxie must be some sort of electrolytic converter.
Carbon Monoxide is a good thing: Carbon monoxide - Wikipedia
I forget exactly how this was done, but you burned coal in a steam atmosphere back in the day. It made a gas known as coal gas. A mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide. Excellent fuel if not good to breathe. This was before the duller but safer North Sea Gas. We did all sorts of things in the Chemistry Lab with Coal Gas and bunsen burners. Satisfying explosions and reducing metal oxides to pure metal. You could fill floaty balloons with it too IIRC.
A reducing agent for the technical. Also suggested as a useful fuel on Mars combined back with Oxygen. 😎
Carbon Monoxide is a good thing: Carbon monoxide - Wikipedia
I forget exactly how this was done, but you burned coal in a steam atmosphere back in the day. It made a gas known as coal gas. A mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide. Excellent fuel if not good to breathe. This was before the duller but safer North Sea Gas. We did all sorts of things in the Chemistry Lab with Coal Gas and bunsen burners. Satisfying explosions and reducing metal oxides to pure metal. You could fill floaty balloons with it too IIRC.
A reducing agent for the technical. Also suggested as a useful fuel on Mars combined back with Oxygen. 😎
Yes, I well remember that sinking feeling when Coal Gas was replaced by North Sea Gas.
Just like the powers that be to take a rise out of us! 😀
Did you know that Coal Gas was discovered by a Scot named Archibald Cochrane in the 1780s. Cochrane was heating coal to extract tar to help preserve ship's timbers. By heating the coal he produced gas, which he then used to illuminate his house in Culross.
The Biggar Gasworks is the only Gasworks left in Scotland. It was among the first to open in the country in 1839, and the last to close in 1973. It has been preserved as a museum.
P.S. Biggar is a rural town in South Lanarkshire.
As the locals say, "London's big, but Biggar's Biggar." 😀
The Biggar Gasworks is the only Gasworks left in Scotland. It was among the first to open in the country in 1839, and the last to close in 1973. It has been preserved as a museum.
P.S. Biggar is a rural town in South Lanarkshire.
As the locals say, "London's big, but Biggar's Biggar." 😀
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