Discovery's top speed...

I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times the
speed of light"...

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/shuttle.html

"erosz" wrote in message
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I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times the
speed of light"...

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/shuttle.html

Only the conspiracy theory about the sensor will do that I think.

Mind you, those boys and girls at CNN have slowed down lots of stuff, so
maybe they have done it with light and nobody has noticed?

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"erosz" wrote in message
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I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times the
speed of light"...

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/shuttle.html

Warp 1.08!


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18 Times the speed of lights is impossible, where are your brains.

186000 miles per second x 18 get real.



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"erosz" wrote in message
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I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times
the
speed of light"...

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/shuttle.html

Warp 1.08!


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"Carol Singer" wrote in message
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18 Times the speed of lights is impossible, where are your brains.

186000 miles per second x 18 get real.


It impossible? Really? Are you sure??

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DW

There's a pretty good look at how the Media covered the STS-107
accident at -

http://www.sts107.info/accident/media/media.htm

At least CNN was covering the reentry, unlike the other networks. I
remember getting up that morning and surfing through all of the news
channels to try to find out what was happening and CNN had some updates
about Columbia's progress.

Amazing how quickly all of the other networks started covering the
story after it was clear that an accident had happened.


Alex Harris

"erosz" wrote in
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I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times
the speed of light"...

They probably ment the speed of sound not light LOL

17500 IS MORE THAN 18 TIMES SPEED OF SOUND

"John Porter" wrote in message
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"erosz" wrote in
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I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times
the speed of light"...

They probably ment the speed of sound not light LOL

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:47:58 -0500, Carol Singer wrote
(in article ):

"John Porter" wrote in message
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"erosz" wrote in
:

I wonder if, according the CNN, the Discovery will travel at "18 times
the speed of light"...

They probably ment the speed of sound not light LOL

17500 IS MORE THAN 18 TIMES SPEED OF SOUND

(Top-posting corrected - AND STOP YELLING!)

The speed of sound is dependent on the pressure, temperature and
density of the medium through which the sound is traveling. The speed
of sound in the atmosphere at standard sea-level pressure, temperature
and density is roughly 1,100 feet per second. 18 times that figure is
19,800 feet per second. This is 13,500 miles per hour, which is indeed
less than 17,500 miles per hour.

However, since you're speaking of velocity in a relative vacuum, the
"speed of sound" is essentially meaningless anyway, so just relax.

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