Watch 700 earth orbiting satillites in real-time[views:1483][posts:4]______________________________________ [Jan 7,2004 10:35pm - the_reverend ""] http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3d/JTrack3d.html cold as ice. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 8,2004 12:24am - RustedAngel ""] very cool. |
| ________________________________ [Jan 8,2004 2:15am - phantos ""] the other 1251 piece-of-junk-not-functioning satellites they can't track... that is the true cosmic crash-up-derby that would be fun to see! those fuckers out there space-walking are lucky to be alive and unpierced. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 8,2004 9:59am - the_reverend ""] the thing that makes us lucky is that there is so much distance between stuff up there since the Earth is a gravitational trap for debris. gravitational calculations are farily easy. given velocity, mass and all, you can calculate that stuff out for years. I wrong a program for my T81 that did it back in high school. one shuttle had a BB sized fleck of paint hit it's wind-shield and left a D-battery sized crater... scary shit. Thing is, stuff up there is also travelling faster than a bullet. go neo. |
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