The external tank is the big orange thing you see on the outside of the shuttle. You know, the one the bat was napping on? As the name inplies the tank holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants.
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The external tank is the big orange thing you see on the outside of the shuttle. You know, the one the bat was napping on? As the name inplies the tank holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants.
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[..YouTube..] Good information. Look forward to more information. Maybe tomorrow Discovery will have better luck.
Good information. Look forward to more information. Maybe tomorrow Discovery will have better luck.
[..YouTube..] one day there will be no need this tank.a ship that can from a runway to orbit in one peice
one day there will be no need this tank.a ship that can from a runway to orbit in one peice
[..YouTube..] can you use kilograms, celcius and liters like the rest of the world? pounds, farenheit and galons are alien concepts :\ (and no im not speaking only for myself, and i dont want to keep a calculator with me everytime anyone says that)
Frag,
I'm American born, but I have to agree with you. Metric is much more logical once you get used to it. The people who hate it here are the ones who don't want to expend the effort to start thinking in that system rather than the old English imperial system that they are taught from childhood. It's just what they are used to. 12 inches to the foot, 36 inches or 3 feet to the yard, 5280 feet or 1760 yards to the mile: we're masochists! How much more logical 10 mm to the cm, 10 cm to the dm, 10 dm to the m, 1000 m to the km!
can you use kilograms, celcius and liters like the rest of the world? pounds, farenheit and galons are alien concepts :\ (and no im not speaking only for myself, and i dont want to keep a calculator with me everytime anyone says that)
[..YouTube..] NASA said they never ever going to change to the metric system. Because they have to rewrite all their software... Lame excuse if you ask me.
NASA said they never ever going to change to the metric system. Because they have to rewrite all their software... Lame excuse if you ask me.
[..YouTube..] Yes, that would be lame. Because in science in America it's all metric now, and it has beeen for quite some time already. And all instruments, like microscopes or telescopes or lab equipment like bottles and tubes and petrie dishes are metric. Obviously, it would kinda stupid if the reast of the world would have to waste time on interpreting american results into 20th/21st century language, hehe:)
Yes, that would be lame. Because in science in America it's all metric now, and it has beeen for quite some time already. And all instruments, like microscopes or telescopes or lab equipment like bottles and tubes and petrie dishes are metric. Obviously, it would kinda stupid if the reast of the world would have to waste time on interpreting american results into 20th/21st century language, hehe:)
[..YouTube..] *be kinda stupid* Typo there:)
*be kinda stupid* Typo there:)
[..YouTube..] Tbh they should contract google or something to remake all their software. It has only benefits.
Tbh they should contract google or something to remake all their software. It has only benefits.
[..YouTube..] 600 lb (272 kg)
58,500 lb (26,500 kg)
1,680,000 lb (760,000 kg)
395,581.9 US gal (1,497,440 l)
3234 psi (220230 kPa) (absolute)
−423 °F (−252.8 °C)
600 lb (272 kg)
58,500 lb (26,500 kg)
1,680,000 lb (760,000 kg)
395,581.9 US gal (1,497,440 l)
3234 psi (220230 kPa) (absolute)
−423 °F (−252.8 °C)
[..YouTube..] nasa is becoming obsolete and an optional component of space travel. however, that isn't a lame excuse considering how much stuff they use the software for. that would be a formidable task and then you have the space craft that nasa communicates with to think about as well.
nasa is becoming obsolete and an optional component of space travel. however, that isn't a lame excuse considering how much stuff they use the software for. that would be a formidable task and then you have the space craft that nasa communicates with to think about as well.
[..YouTube..] awesome, now it suddently makes sence
I guess you wouldn't add notes on the videos displaying the metric values each time someone says a non-metric value? :D
awesome, now it suddently makes sence
I guess you wouldn't add notes on the videos displaying the metric values each time someone says a non-metric value? :D
Nautical miles downrange? Anyone? Anyone?
Quarkspin, it reenters somewhere in the pacific. Not sure how far downrange, but it seems like somewhere near 21,000 miles.
Goes to show the United States never has to change anything to metric. It's called dominance. The rest of the world will just have to calulate the conversions!
My idea to cap the Gulf leak: use one of the external fuel tanks that are used to launch the space shuttle, Cut the bottom of the fuel tank off. This would be the part to sit down over top of the leak on the ocean floor. The top could be adapted and serve as a funnel which would have a pipe welded to it and ran to the ships above. The large pipe would slow the velocity of the oil coming out making it more manageable and better insure that the pipe would stay connected to the make-shift cap.