April 13, 2008: Pigs In Space - Page 2

beauregaardhooligan · 04-16-2008, 08:49 AM

With the price of raw materials these days it might soon be worthwhile to turn the ISS into a re-cycling center!
I bet a lot of that is pretty high quality metal also.
Somebody needs to come up with a solar-powered forge.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-16-2008, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I thought Arthur C. Clarke was normally given credit for that.

Clark dreamed of it, Rosen did it.

TheMercenary · 04-20-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I read a recent interview with 93 year old Harold Rosen. He is the inventor of geosynchronous communications satellites—the satellite systems we use today to communicate and transmit data around the world instantly.
Syncom, the world’s first geostationary communications satellite, launched in 1963, was born of Rosen’s ingenuity, and he is still consulted on new satellites.

Bruce, how did you get the opportunity to do the interview?

xoxoxoBruce · 04-20-2008, 10:38 AM

He retired from Boeing, but is still an active consultant. He was interviewed for the Boeing magazine, Frontiers.

SPUCK · 04-20-2008, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

the satellite systems we use today to communicate and transmit data around the world instantly.

No, No NO! Not instantly! At the speed of light. Don't you realize that is the basis of the fine conversations we have with Indian tech services?

Hello?

Hi. I'm having a prob..

How may I hel..

I'm having a prob..

I'm sorry please go...

As I was saying my printer is printing out the pages sideways and mangled.

spudcon · 04-14-2008, 07:24 PM

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SPUCK · 04-15-2008, 04:18 AM

Yeah and depicting each little tin can and nut as something about the size of the Florida tends to exaggerate the problem a weeee bit.

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beauregaardhooligan Elite Elitist Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 323	With the price of raw materials these days it might soon be worthwhile to turn the ISS into a re-cycling center! I bet a lot of that is pretty high quality metal also. Somebody needs to come up with a solar-powered forge.

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SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Yeah and depicting each little tin can and nut as something about the size of the Florida tends to exaggerate the problem a weeee bit.

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