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Post by buzyg » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:49 pm

Some things are just amazing. To think, as we sit here chatting, there is a man made object 1.4 billion km away taking photographs, at our behest. Just blows me away to think about it if I'm honest. 8)

http://earthsky.org/space/earth-and-moo ... april-2017

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Post by Chris_D » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:55 pm

Kewl :thumbsup:
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho :x
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Post by buzyg » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:58 pm

Chris_D wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:55 pm Kewl :thumbsup:
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho :x
:lol: Give us a wave next time you're there. I'll point my wee telescope that way and see if I can spot you. :wink:

By the way. The site fee's in Cornwall are Astronomical. :exitright:
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Post by Machine monkey » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:06 pm

I work in a physics department at a university. This sh1t blows my mind! Love love love it :thumbsup: the human race has many many flaws but it's also capable of amazing things.
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Post by Chris_D » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:29 pm

Machine monkey wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:06 pm I work in a physics department at a university. This sh1t blows my mind! Love love love it :thumbsup: the human race has many many flaws but it's also capable of amazing things.
It all falls into place now mat - ur using the physics dept as a testbed for your rear-mounted turbo shennanigans and have the students performing cfd and matlab calculations. Clever! :thumbsup:
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Post by Marlon » Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:18 pm

Stunning, Cassini launched 20 years ago and almost of fuel - not bad mpg I'd say
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Post by Smartbear » Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:24 pm

That's what I call hyper miling, burn & coast :P
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Post by metal licker » Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:34 am

Bloody hell that pic puts the annoyance of a general election in to perspective :)
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Post by dr_john » Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:30 am

Fantastic.

As an engineer I appreciate the technology involved but to see results like this is truly mind blowing.

As Marlon says, great mpg! :D
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Post by SpiketheBike » Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:11 pm

Pretty humbling really innit? :o 8)
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Post by sharpyboy » Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:43 pm

Brilliant, great shot. My favourite is this one from the Moon if you believe that NASA went there and not filmed it in Hollywood backlot :thumbsup: :)
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Post by buzyg » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:45 pm

sharpyboy wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:43 pm Brilliant, great shot. My favourite is this one from the Moon if you believe that NASA went there and not filmed it in Hollywood backlot :thumbsup: :)

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Give it a few generations and our great grand kids might be able to buy a drone, for a few days wages, that they can send up to take that shot. The good news it only takes a signal 1.3s each way. 8)

1.4 billion km though. Even light takes 1.3 hours each way. :o With our current understanding of what is possible, that's always going to be a fekin long way. :cry: Lets just hope we have bits of the science wrong right now. :wink:
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