News From The Back
11 February 2008 14:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kinzelSo ...
yes, my back is aching today; I moved a couple thousand pounds worth of books (that's weight, not cash!) over the weekend and I may have overdone that -- or maybe it was the snow shoveling, ice-clearing, or cat wrestling. Or the cold/fluish stuff. Heck, could be anything. In any case, oooch.
Meanwhile, we've made some still invisible to you progress with the updating of the SRM Publisher catalog and the general Korval site, in part due to diligent volunteers. Thanks crew, things move forward!
Speaking of forward, or at least of Saltation, the numbers are:
8537 / 111111 words. 8% done!
Saltation, Chapter 4 went up moments before the noon deadline -- I won't go into the litany of silly software updates that interrupted my morning plans, except to say "Apple and HP, I detest the way your friendly updates screw-up my mornings."
We had a truck truck truck moment today, with the UPS driver arriving at least a day sooner than I was expecting. So, something for FoL members at Boskone is arriven. Still sorting out the Boskone plans for the suite as someone had to unmake plans over the weekend. Sigh. We'll figure it out.
Ooops .. try again; thankfully LJ did back-up most of what I was working on, thank you. Here we're having intermittent power and connectivity outages as snow covered branches, driven bu 25-45 mile an hour gusts, are sweeping some of the power line locally. It *really is very pretty* I must say. Darn cold, too... 16 degrees in the heat of day, with a 40 mile an hour wind. You do the shivers... not liek a true January icebox, but hey, this month is getting to be less January all the time.
And oh, I've been following the latest shuttle mission -- watched the launch as I packed the other day, and now there's NASA TV again. Whee... I'm glad my boss is understanding about these habits of mine...
So: what's you favorite non-manned current space mission?
yes, my back is aching today; I moved a couple thousand pounds worth of books (that's weight, not cash!) over the weekend and I may have overdone that -- or maybe it was the snow shoveling, ice-clearing, or cat wrestling. Or the cold/fluish stuff. Heck, could be anything. In any case, oooch.
Meanwhile, we've made some still invisible to you progress with the updating of the SRM Publisher catalog and the general Korval site, in part due to diligent volunteers. Thanks crew, things move forward!
Speaking of forward, or at least of Saltation, the numbers are:
Saltation, Chapter 4 went up moments before the noon deadline -- I won't go into the litany of silly software updates that interrupted my morning plans, except to say "Apple and HP, I detest the way your friendly updates screw-up my mornings."
We had a truck truck truck moment today, with the UPS driver arriving at least a day sooner than I was expecting. So, something for FoL members at Boskone is arriven. Still sorting out the Boskone plans for the suite as someone had to unmake plans over the weekend. Sigh. We'll figure it out.
Ooops .. try again; thankfully LJ did back-up most of what I was working on, thank you. Here we're having intermittent power and connectivity outages as snow covered branches, driven bu 25-45 mile an hour gusts, are sweeping some of the power line locally. It *really is very pretty* I must say. Darn cold, too... 16 degrees in the heat of day, with a 40 mile an hour wind. You do the shivers... not liek a true January icebox, but hey, this month is getting to be less January all the time.
And oh, I've been following the latest shuttle mission -- watched the launch as I packed the other day, and now there's NASA TV again. Whee... I'm glad my boss is understanding about these habits of mine...
So: what's you favorite non-manned current space mission?
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2008-02-11 22:31 (UTC)Voyager 1, it's the longest running mission and the furthest away (almost 10 milliard[1] miles). And the two Mars rovers, which like the Voyagers have massively exceeded their expected mission lifetimes.
[1] A site recently confused me by referring to it as 10 billion miles -- to me that's 1.7 light-years...
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2008-02-12 00:50 (UTC)I got 9681 on the word count with MS Work Word Processor with the titles, headers and footnotes.
Couldn't decide between the New Horizons mission (Pluto system flyby) and the Dawn mission (Ceres & Vesta rendezvous). New Horizons is radiological power by Plutonium, ironic for a mission to Pluto arriving on 2017. Dawn got a high impulse Xenon ion propulsion drive, rendezvousing with Vesta on 2011 and Ceres on 2015. Now if only someone is planning a mission to Xena and Gabrielle rename as Eris and Dysnomia, the dwarf planet formerly known as 2003 UB313.
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2008-02-12 13:23 (UTC)still my process is simple: I have a sheet of paper and I write things down, and add them in my head or on a piece of paper with a pen. Once we have the new improved fledgling/Saltation site in gear we ought to have a better way of doing this... maybe we'll form a wordcount committee.
Website for "Spacecraft Escaping the Solar System"
2008-02-16 20:23 (UTC)are you aware of
http://www.heavens-above.com/solar-escape.asp?