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[Aperitif]

b'doom tish ;-)

What would you call four set's of Aperitif ?
A pair of pairs of Aperitif.

Ah damn it - never could count, but...good one Thom!


And Stuart - made me chuckle...we need more of your rapier wit, not your aberant wit (Where was that again?) despite there e being a Jones the Wetherspoon close to hand...

 

[thom]

I was thinking more on the lines of :

 

[TimO]

I thought my "TimO's being talked about surreptitiously" alarm was going off.

I disclaim having anything whatsoever to do with UARS, or wherever it crashed in the end. ... or even know what you're talking about, or who you are.

ROSAT is due to re-enter shortly, and whilst the satellite is significantly lighter than UARS (only about 2½ tonnes vs 6 tonnes for UARS), it's likely that heavier bits will get to ground level than would have with UARS. X-Ray and Gamma ray telescopes (which are generally in satellites) tend to have big heavy lumps of material because they using grazing incidence mirrors to reflect the incoming high energy wavelengths onto the detectors, and these have to made out of lumps of heavy, dense stuff (technical term) which doesn't fall apart easily when they re-enter.

Watch this space (or some other Space).

 

[dellzeqq]

The UK Wide Field Camera was designed and built by a consortium of RAL, the universities of Leicester and Birmingham, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.


So, Tim. This space junk that's about to crash down on our heads. Is there anything you'd like to tell us................

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The UK Wide Field Camera was designed and built by a consortium of RAL, the universities of Leicester and Birmingham, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.


So, Tim. This space junk that's about to crash down on our heads. Is there anything you'd like to tell us................

Mullard Space Science Lab? Blimey, it will have my mate Dave Walton's fingerprints all over it then...

 

[dellzeqq]

Mullard Space Science Lab? Blimey, it will have my mate Dave Walton's fingerprints all over it then...

careful. Tim has them down as The Enemy.........

 

[TimO]

ROSAT isn't actually our fault, that was Tim Sumner (admittedly another Tim), who is in Astro Physics, not Space Physics. We don't actually have much to do with each other.

 

[dellzeqq]

ROSAT isn't actually our fault, that was Tim Sumner (admittedly another Tim), who is in Astro Physics, not Space Physics. We don't actually have much to do with each other.

yeah, right. Not now you don't, not now his John Hancock is on a bit of metal set on destroying Life on Earth. And you'll forgive me for pointing out that if a wide angle telescope lands on my head at mach 17.5 I won't be thinking 'Astro or Space, Space or Astro............?'

 

[User10571]

yeah, right. Not now you don't, not now his John Hancock is on a bit of metal set on destroying Life on Earth. And you'll forgive me for pointing out that if a wide angle telescope lands on my head at mach 17.5 I won't be thinking 'Astro or Space, Space or Astro............?'

Snigger...

 

[Wobblers]

yeah, right. Not now you don't, not now his John Hancock is on a bit of metal set on destroying Life on Earth. And you'll forgive me for pointing out that if a wide angle telescope lands on my head at mach 17.5 I won't be thinking 'Astro or Space, Space or Astro............?'

But everyone will want to know whether you were wearing a helmet...