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On Nov 24, 4:32*pm, Jan Vorbrüggen
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Neil Gerace wrote:
On Nov 24, 4:32 pm, Jan Vorbrüggen wrote: 19 mT - what unit is that? millitesla :-) Alright - you knew what I meant. Keep up the nitpicking and I'll start quoting all masses in "stones" for my postings. |
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Correct. Any cargo Orion variants you see floating around are conceptual; there is no cargo Orion version under development. Once crewed version of Orion has had its design frozen and proven, it should be straight forward for NASA to design a cargo version ("Progress" analogue). |
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Alright - you knew what I meant. Keep up the nitpicking and I'll start
quoting all masses in "stones" for my postings. That would be too easy! I just checked - I even remembered the corresponding SI mass correctly 8-). To confuse as much as possible, I suggest quoting velocities in furlongs per fortnight and time in microfortnights (just saw Wikipedia has a seperate entry on those). Follow the lead of VMS, noting that in the implementation, a microfortnight has been approximated as one second. And then compute an orbital rendezvous in those units... Jan |
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Jan Vorbrüggen wrote: To confuse as much as possible, I suggest quoting velocities in furlongs per fortnight and time in microfortnights (just saw Wikipedia has a seperate entry on those). Follow the lead of VMS, noting that in the implementation, a microfortnight has been approximated as one second. And then compute an orbital rendezvous in those units... I still want to figure out the apogee and perigee of the ISS in Roman Stadia, its velocity in Egyptian Cubits per second, and its overall mass in Hebraic Talents. As long as we are going to drive people to distraction trying to convert one measurement form to another, let's sort the wheat from the chaff by seeing who actually can _handle_ something like that in their future postings. :-D Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote: I still want to figure out the apogee and perigee of the ISS in Roman Stadia, its velocity in Egyptian Cubits per second, and its overall mass in Hebraic Talents. As long as we are going to drive people to distraction trying to convert one measurement form to another, let's sort the wheat from the chaff by seeing who actually can _handle_ something like that in their future postings. :-D BTW, although Roman Stadia is a fixed distance, Egyptian Cubits varied by dynasty, as did Hebraic Talents did in biblical times. So, although I might not end up as "chaff", I do need input on what form and time period one wants those measurements to be measured by, and a good, solid, day to work on the math in regards to that (if I get around to it)... and no guarantee that my answer will actually resemble anything correct unless by random chance. But, other than that, I stand by my intellectual challenge and sorting of great minds as expressed in that posting. ;-) Pat |
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