1. Attachments are working again! Check out this thread for more details and to report any other bugs.

Gravity satellite feels the force

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by qbee42, Apr 7, 2009.

  1. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

    Joined:
    Mar 2, 2005
    15,232
    1,563
    0
    Location:
    off into the sunset
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Model:
    N/A
    Oh man. Another perfectly good thread ruined by drugs and religion. I suppose people just don't understand the gravity of the situation. ;)
     
  2. amm0bob

    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

    Joined:
    May 29, 2008
    7,730
    2,547
    0
    Location:
    The last place on earth to get cable, Sacramento
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Model:
    II
    Will the Gravity satellite feel the sucking force


    It's one of the reasons we sent the satellite in the first place... they want to know if the earth sucks in waves... and, if stuff that is sucking elsewhere in the universe impacts the suckage on our planet at all.
     
  3. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

    Joined:
    Mar 2, 2005
    15,232
    1,563
    0
    Location:
    off into the sunset
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Model:
    N/A
    Do you think it's sensitive enough to record a suckage reduction due to the death of Marilyn Chambers?
     
  4. FL_Prius_Driver

    FL_Prius_Driver Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jun 17, 2007
    4,319
    1,527
    0
    Location:
    Tampa Bay
    Vehicle:
    2010 Prius
    Model:
    I
    So your going to show all those "beginners" trying to derail the thread with drugs and religion how to do it right?
     
  5. Rokeby

    Rokeby Member

    Joined:
    Jan 21, 2008
    3,033
    708
    75
    Location:
    Ballamer, Merlin
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Generally a localized, short lived phenomena unless, of course it occurs
    in an odd shaped room such as an oval office...

    In which case it has considerable gravity.
     
  6. amm0bob

    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

    Joined:
    May 29, 2008
    7,730
    2,547
    0
    Location:
    The last place on earth to get cable, Sacramento
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Model:
    II

    And the other relevant question... concerning gravity waves of course... and mass effects in general...

    Is the Danza Slap a measurable force/effect from space...
     
  7. amm0bob

    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

    Joined:
    May 29, 2008
    7,730
    2,547
    0
    Location:
    The last place on earth to get cable, Sacramento
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Model:
    II

    Or levity...

    Considering the late-nite talk show host's material and all...


    Speaking of that... what's the verdict on the Colbert module...
     
  8. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2004
    13,439
    641
    0
    Location:
    Winnipeg Manitoba
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Marilyn "Chambers," truly a legend on .... I mean in, IN, her time
     
  9. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

    Joined:
    Mar 2, 2005
    15,232
    1,563
    0
    Location:
    off into the sunset
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Model:
    N/A
    I read something in the paper this morning about infusing spiderwebs with metal to make them even stronger. No mention of the strength relative to carbon nanotubes, but spiders on a satellite would be another Clarke tie-in.

    Sorry, Jayman, you'd probably rather not think about it. ;)
     
  10. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

    Joined:
    Mar 2, 2006
    18,058
    3,074
    7
    Location:
    Northern Michigan
    Vehicle:
    2006 Prius
    If you say "man-eating spider" does that have a special meaning to Jayman?

    Tom
     
  11. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2004
    13,439
    641
    0
    Location:
    Winnipeg Manitoba
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Why, yes it does.

    I've had an irrational fear of fairly harmless, but large and hairy spiders, ever since that one scuttled across my equipment
     
  12. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

    Joined:
    Mar 2, 2005
    15,232
    1,563
    0
    Location:
    off into the sunset
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Model:
    N/A
    Too bad it didn't bite you. You could have been Spiderman - in a big way.

    And if the spider was radioactive, you'd glow-in-the-dork. I mean dark.
     
  13. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2004
    13,439
    641
    0
    Location:
    Winnipeg Manitoba
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Priceless
     
  14. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2006
    5,270
    37
    36
    Vehicle:
    2006 Prius
    Hmmmm, going into space via elevator. . . how boring.

    But then again, you're in space and that's pretty damn cool! :yo:

    Wildkow

    p.s. Ii wonder what Muzak they will play on the way up?
     
  15. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

    Joined:
    Jul 12, 2007
    10,664
    567
    0
    Location:
    Adelaide South Australia
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Model:
    N/A
    I could use the swelling down there from a manhood eating spider bite.
     
  16. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2006
    5,270
    37
    36
    Vehicle:
    2006 Prius
    Hmmmm we should package that and sell it on late night television.

    Wildkow
     
  17. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2004
    13,439
    641
    0
    Location:
    Winnipeg Manitoba
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Probably a real cheap never-ending version of Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around etc.

    Or, a never-ending version of Hanson's MMmmmbop

    Me, I'd just blow the emergency escape window and jump out ...
     
  18. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2004
    13,439
    641
    0
    Location:
    Winnipeg Manitoba
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Not me.

    Also, I'd bet if the relatively harmless but hungry hairy spider DID bite you there, the *last* thing on your mind would be sex

    Just having all those hairy legs scuttling across my "equipment" the very last thing on my mind was sex. If dozens of attractive women had been outside that outhouse, the only thought on my mind would have been that hairy spider with all those hairy legs

    BBRRRRRrrrrrrrrrr!
     
  19. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2004
    13,439
    641
    0
    Location:
    Winnipeg Manitoba
    Vehicle:
    2004 Prius
    Hmmmmmm you might be onto a lucrative business opportunity ....
     
  20. amm0bob

    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

    Joined:
    May 29, 2008
    7,730
    2,547
    0
    Location:
    The last place on earth to get cable, Sacramento
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Model:
    II

    No tail on earth is worth me letting some spider bite my johnthomas for a longer go at it...

    Even if she had an Australian accent and all...

    Although... there is this gal I once knew from the Bahamas... her eyes were nearly golden... and...

    Ummmm on second thought, No... now that I think about it again, no way would I go through with it... wanker biting spiders... NO.