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Iraq was invaded because of it's human rights abuses and nuclear weapons development Untrue Fact Telling Machine is now windows 10 compatible!

Nah. The button will half the US military's budget and split the other half between NASA, renewable energy and gun controlling. The bad bit is that it also drops a 20 Kiloton nuke on your head.

I hear that antelopes can jump higher than the average house due to their powerful hind legs... And the fact the average houses can't jump.

This will run into the exact same problems as every other plan in the last 40 years. Nothing to see here folks.

I hear that antelopes can jump higher than the average house due to their powerful hind legs... And the fact the average houses can't jump.

I just wanted to know because I read this on Atomic Rockets: And I just wanted to know if that could have been taken literally.

Once the Antarctic Treaty is revised we can officially say it is easier to colonise Antarctica than Mars. Just sayin'.

Okay, I have my answer now! For those wondering it's 1.392x10^16 Joules, or the energy of a 3.328 Megaton thermonuclear explosion. Since it obviously wouldn't be 100% efficient the bomb would actually have to be a bit more powerful.

I'm just going off exactly what happens in the film. I don't know how efficient it is.

How do I do that?

Okay, it turns out the only really notable thing I got from that source was this image: This image includes everything we need to know: Important dates and the relative positions of the planets at certain times. The 8th frame, for example, shows the relative positions of Venus, Earth and Mars, as does the 12th. It should be possible to find when these planets are in this relative configuration, and at what times the configuration is compatible with the positions of the other planets shown. I imagine that SpaceEngine, Universe Sandbox2 or Celestia has some feature where you can see this. I have tried but so far I haven't found any alignments. First to do this gets lots of rep!

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Fun Fact: Ebola was technically an airborne virus, however it was really bad at being airborne so it rarely transmitted that way.

What is the gravitational binding energy of Deimos? In other words, how powerful a nuke would a need to get rid of it?

Extremely valuable source is extremely valuable. Thanks!

Okay, I have come up with a plan. In the intro they show Pegasus' trajectory out to pluto. If I were to download a clip of that bit I could triangulate exactly where the 'camera' is at different parts of that trajectory scene, and using the amazingness of SpaceEngine I could find out exactly when the planets are in that position. There is one problem: My current video-downloading software can't handle videos of more than 20 minutes or so, and the only clips from the film that have that part that I can find are 57-59 minutes long. So that leaves us with two options: Either we find a shorter clip from the film with the trajectory scene in it, or someone with better video-downloading software can download it and shorten it to just that scene, then give me the shorter clip file. I like the first idea better but I can't find any short clips with the scene, so this is where I need your help.

Granted, they add a feature where clouds will appear in front of your screen so you can't see anything. I wish America wasn't planning an invasion of Syria/Iran.

All the actual 'mission time' dates are shown in the film, so things like how long it took to get from X to Y are mostly known. The book also has lots of extra info.

Granted. But you only get them for a week. I wish we all finally had a clear, true answer as to who did 9/11. This annoys me IRL as well.

Oh, another thing I forgot to mention is that the entire film is available on youtube. It often shows what day into the mission something happens (eg it shows that the Jupiter aerobrake happens on day 411) so that might be useful.

Okay, so i'm working on a project relating to space movies and fictional timelines, and I need your help with something. Specifically, I need to know 'when' Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets takes place. Specifically, I need to know if there is a way the 'grand tour' can take place with a launch date in the 21st century. Here is what I can find so far about the voyage depicted in the film: The spacecraft 'Pegasus' is a fusion-powered vessel that begins its voyage with a 41-day trajectory to Venus, followed by another trajectory out to Mars. This is then followed by the spacecraft refueling in Mars orbit and then dropping to within 5 million miles of the sun, where it accelerates to nearly 300km/s. This slingshot takes it out to Jupiter where Pegasus endures a long aero braking manuver to get it on an elliptical orbit intercepting Io, where it enters orbit for a brief period of time before moving out to Europa, and then leaving the Jupiter system altogether. The vessel reaches Saturn and, after a less intense aero brake, enters a stable orbit in the Cassini Division before moving outwards to Titan, where it refuels and leaves for Pluto. After entering orbit around pluto the spacecraft returns to Earth (it also had a rendezvous with a comet but since said comet doesn't actually exist it can't be taken into account). More info about the spacecraft: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/spaceodyssey/pegasus.shtml Extra rep for the first person to find a working planetary alignment and can hence put a date on when the events of the film take place.

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Umm, that's been happening all over the world for thousands of years now.

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