Space Forum / Astronomy / August 2005

You know I'm sick of Iran playing their childish games. I say we go in
now, bomb their nuke plant into the ground, then tell them "go ahead,
build a new one, we'll do the same thing the day it's completed", and
leave it at that.

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From: Painius
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:59:45 GMT
Subject: Great Astronomers - Scopin' it out...

A group of observers gathered at Patrick's house last night to observe
the shower. Patrick also joined us in the garden which was nice.
Intermittent cloud with some nice clear patches for a while. The
Perseids seemed quite subdued on their lead up to maximum (later this

Sorry, I have asked everywhere else, so are trying another method.
Does anyone reading this list have a reference to the invention of the
Y-factor method of measuring noise figure of RF/microwave devices? Any
idea why it is called "Y-factor"? I'd like to find the oringinal

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/monstrum.html
Monstrum Humanum Rarissimum
by Cliff Pickover, Reality Carnival
Baby born with alien features. Deformity or something more?

Nice and clear here in Cumbria ATM. Not too many about though ( 8 in past
hour + 1 non Perseid)
I am typing this out in the garden as I am watching over my video and webams
trying to catch a spectrum (Several aircraft light spectra so far and an

Well, just on a long shot, I got up about 4am, and again about 5:45am, and
went outside to try to see any stragglers in the Perseid meteor shower.
Of course, visibility was something like being inside half a ping-pong ball.
The only thing really visible was the unblinking red eye ...

Abstract
Standard experimental techniques exist to determine the propagation
speed of forces. When we apply these techniques to gravity, they all
yield propagation speeds too great to measure, substantially faster than

Yes... let's go to the moon, mars and beyond...
Who designed that bath tub anyway?
It was called a flying brick from Enterprise onward.
I put my money on the Chinese....

CNN had the cost of upgrading the Discovery at      1.48 billion bucks.
Griffin said on tv that nothing had been done to make it safer. They did
put TV cameras showing us that styrofoam  tiles and other stuffstill
came off or got loose. This begs the question  What was this 1.48

Suprising news from Mars
BUSH ACQUIRED BY MARTIAN ZOO
OLYMPUS MONS-President Bush, who in 2004 announced his desire for a
manned

Sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/lightpollute/
Gareth

Boris Chimp 504  Rocket engineer. . Died 20 July 1969.
          http://www.astronautix.com/astros/bormp504.htm
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Over the years the Western press named a number of cosmonauts that were

Hypothetically if a person travels at just under the speed of light in a
space ship to a star 10 light years away
does it seem to take the full 10 years to get there for the person doing the
traveling?

Whilst my first book ("First Ark to Alpha Centauri") is going through
its final type setting and cover design process, I am already thinking
of writing the follow up sequel. How exciting...
The only trouble is, I'm spoilt for choice on what enigmatic adventures