Comments for Wolverine's Den http://www.wolverinesden.org Sat, 17 May 2008 10:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 Comment on The ultimate workplace by The Fool http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/23/the-ultimate-workplace/#comment-29607 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:57:01 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/23/the-ultimate-workplace/#comment-29607 Wow, amazing pictures, thanks for picking out some of the best of the lot. I think that this may be one of the best things that space exploration brings to the human race, especially when the private sector starts bringing large numbers of people to space; that view of the entire Earth and how we all are really in it together. Do you know when pictures start coming out from the Atlantis mission? The Fool http://newfrontiersblog.blogspot.com/ Wow, amazing pictures, thanks for picking out some of the best of the lot. I think that this may be one of the best things that space exploration brings to the human race, especially when the private sector starts bringing large numbers of people to space; that view of the entire Earth and how we all are really in it together. Do you know when pictures start coming out from the Atlantis mission?

The Fool
http://newfrontiersblog.blogspot.com/

]]> Comment on Saturnian sojourn by Vic Stathopoulos http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/17/saturnian-sojourn/#comment-14963 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/17/saturnian-sojourn/#comment-14963 Some of the photography that has been achieved with the Cassini spacecraft is fantastic. So far the data that has been obtained is phenomenal and I think scientists and mission planners need to think about making a successor to Cassini perhaps called Cassini 2. The photography and data so far obtained will take years to analyse and I am sure new discoveries will be made. I have heard there is talk of making a Neptune Orbiter and it might have potential taking more photos and getting more data on Saturn and its moons. Some of the photography that has been achieved with the Cassini spacecraft is fantastic. So far the data that has been obtained is phenomenal and I think scientists and mission planners need to think about making a successor to Cassini perhaps called Cassini 2. The photography and data so far obtained will take years to analyse and I am sure new discoveries will be made. I have heard there is talk of making a Neptune Orbiter and it might have potential taking more photos and getting more data on Saturn and its moons.

]]> Comment on The ultimate workplace by Solar Flare http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/23/the-ultimate-workplace/#comment-5582 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:25:22 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/23/the-ultimate-workplace/#comment-5582 Embed or link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY Embed or link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY

]]> Comment on Not so fast… by Solar Flare http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/24/not-so-fast/#comment-4810 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:29:13 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/24/not-so-fast/#comment-4810 Hi Wolverine, How's the weather up there? It's been awful here - today we got a little bit of sun. I don't know why this post reminded me of the <a href="http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/" rel="nofollow">Dawn Mission</a>, but remember how they were taking names for the microchip to go on board? I submitted all my family members' names and printed out the certificates. At Christmas I showed them and they were like, "Oh, how thoughtful," as their eyes glazed over. Lol. As you are aware, Dawn has had a rollercoaster ride of on/off. But it's going - with our names, dammit! :-) Too, I tried to get my parents to go out and look at Comet McNaught since they had good weather in Florida when it was in our sights, but they didn't do it. Arrghh, and here we were deprived! Not fair. :-( <a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/images2007/30jan07/Yoneto1.jpg" rel="nofollow">Look at this!</a> I want to go live in New Zealand or Tasmania. That is really photorgasmic, don't you think? Cheers! Hi Wolverine,

How’s the weather up there? It’s been awful here - today we got a little bit of sun. I don’t know why this post reminded me of the Dawn Mission, but remember how they were taking names for the microchip to go on board? I submitted all my family members’ names and printed out the certificates. At Christmas I showed them and they were like, “Oh, how thoughtful,” as their eyes glazed over. Lol. As you are aware, Dawn has had a rollercoaster ride of on/off. But it’s going - with our names, dammit! :-)

Too, I tried to get my parents to go out and look at Comet McNaught since they had good weather in Florida when it was in our sights, but they didn’t do it. Arrghh, and here we were deprived! Not fair. :-(

Look at this! I want to go live in New Zealand or Tasmania. That is really photorgasmic, don’t you think?

Cheers!

]]> Comment on The ultimate workplace by Wolverine http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/23/the-ultimate-workplace/#comment-4563 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:30:07 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/23/the-ultimate-workplace/#comment-4563 sunil, the image at the bottom is actually over New Zealand, and from that perspective India isn't visible. Here's a map approximating their position and vantage point (click to enlarge): <a title="Click to enlarge" href="http://www.wolverinesden.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/nz.png" rel="nofollow"><img alt="New Zealand" title="New Zealand" src="http://www.wolverinesden.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/nz.thumbnail.png" /></a> There are a number of images taken above India <a target="_blank" title="Astronaut Photography of India" href="http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/clickmap/map113.htm" rel="nofollow">in this gallery</a> if you'd like to see them, just click on the map for a list of results. :) sunil, the image at the bottom is actually over New Zealand, and from that perspective India isn’t visible. Here’s a map approximating their position and vantage point (click to enlarge):

New Zealand

There are a number of images taken above India in this gallery if you’d like to see them, just click on the map for a list of results. :)

]]> Comment on Dazzling Southern display by Wolverine http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/22/dazzling-southern-display/#comment-4562 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:06:37 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/22/dazzling-southern-display/#comment-4562 Hi sunil, I'm not able to find any estimates of the comet's mass, so I'm kind of hard-pressed to offer concrete numbers depicting the aftermath of a hypothetical impact. Let's just say it would be bad -- very, very , very bad. If we were to imagine a head-on collision, assume that the comet is mostly ice, and that it were to smack into the ocean, the impact would certainly cause incredible tsunamis and massive devastation (say goodbye to coastline cities). I remember reading that McNaught was traveling very quickly, so even if the comet's nucleus was fairly small (say, one kilometer or so in diameter), the impact would release massive amounts of energy, a few hundred thousand megatons worth. That would pose huge problems for the overall climate in addition to wildlife, and displace a significant amount of water in the ocean -- it wouldn't leave it a dry valley as you put it, but it could certainly shift enough of a volume of water that it might (very, very slightly) affect the Earth's rotation, much like the huge tsunami in December 2004. The death toll in human and other forms life would be unimaginably high. It would be an epic disaster. A collision of that magnitude only occurs about once every 850,000 years though, so we can rest easy. :) Hi sunil,

I’m not able to find any estimates of the comet’s mass, so I’m kind of hard-pressed to offer concrete numbers depicting the aftermath of a hypothetical impact. Let’s just say it would be bad — very, very , very bad.

If we were to imagine a head-on collision, assume that the comet is mostly ice, and that it were to smack into the ocean, the impact would certainly cause incredible tsunamis and massive devastation (say goodbye to coastline cities). I remember reading that McNaught was traveling very quickly, so even if the comet’s nucleus was fairly small (say, one kilometer or so in diameter), the impact would release massive amounts of energy, a few hundred thousand megatons worth. That would pose huge problems for the overall climate in addition to wildlife, and displace a significant amount of water in the ocean — it wouldn’t leave it a dry valley as you put it, but it could certainly shift enough of a volume of water that it might (very, very slightly) affect the Earth’s rotation, much like the huge tsunami in December 2004. The death toll in human and other forms life would be unimaginably high. It would be an epic disaster.

A collision of that magnitude only occurs about once every 850,000 years though, so we can rest easy. :)

]]> Comment on Not so fast… by sunil http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/24/not-so-fast/#comment-4537 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:51 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2007/01/24/not-so-fast/#comment-4537 The artist of this picture is the great like a Jupiter. :) The rendezvous with jupiter is really great one. sunil The artist of this picture is the great like a Jupiter.

:)

The rendezvous with jupiter is really great one.

sunil

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