Comments on: Doomed ROSAT captured in video http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Blargh http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311954 Blargh Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:11:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311954 It looks like <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/18/reminder-rosats-coming-down-soon/#comment-430261" rel="nofollow">I was wrong</a>. And that's something I'm quite happy about. :) <blockquote>Can someone just give him an honorary engineering certificate already?</blockquote> Well, he is already <a href="http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/info.html" rel="nofollow">an engineer</a>... :) It looks like I was wrong. And that’s something I’m quite happy about. :)

Can someone just give him an honorary engineering certificate already?

Well, he is already an engineer… :)

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311953 Messier Tidy Upper Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:05:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311953 @ ^ Rosa : Very true - & congrats for your thesis btw - but on the bright side she's getting a "Viking funeral" and going out in spectacular style. There are worse ways to end. :-) (FWIW, I handed in my honours thesis on the Palestinian issue the day Yasser Arafat died - which was NOT great timing.) Superluminous jaw-dropping stuff from Thierry Legault - as now expected but still beyond any superlatives~ly impressive. :-D Thought for the day <i>(one of many thankfully)</i> : A ROSSAT by any other name would hurt as much if it hit you when it re-entered? ;-) @ ^ Rosa : Very true – & congrats for your thesis btw – but on the bright side she’s getting a “Viking funeral” and going out in spectacular style. There are worse ways to end. :-)

(FWIW, I handed in my honours thesis on the Palestinian issue the day Yasser Arafat died – which was NOT great timing.)

Superluminous jaw-dropping stuff from Thierry Legault – as now expected but still beyond any superlatives~ly impressive. :-D

Thought for the day (one of many thankfully) : A ROSSAT by any other name would hurt as much if it hit you when it re-entered? ;-)

]]> By: Rosa Williams http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311952 Rosa Williams Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:45:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311952 I'm strangely saddened to see ROSAT inbound. I did my graduate thesis with data from this satellite. (Mind you, some days back then I would cheerfully have wished orbital decay on it.) Not that I don't adore Chandra nowadays, but you never forget your first real relationship.... I’m strangely saddened to see ROSAT inbound. I did my graduate thesis with data from this satellite. (Mind you, some days back then I would cheerfully have wished orbital decay on it.) Not that I don’t adore Chandra nowadays, but you never forget your first real relationship….

]]> By: Josh M http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311951 Josh M Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:13:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311951 Can someone just give him an honorary engineering certificate already? He's making the professionals look bad and the amateurs feel inadequate. (Seriously, he does the most amazing stuff, and I'm thrilled to see "amateur" taken to so high a level. I do Amateur Radio, which is all about this kind of engineering prowess in the hands of "amateurs.") Can someone just give him an honorary engineering certificate already? He’s making the professionals look bad and the amateurs feel inadequate. (Seriously, he does the most amazing stuff, and I’m thrilled to see “amateur” taken to so high a level. I do Amateur Radio, which is all about this kind of engineering prowess in the hands of “amateurs.”)

]]> By: solius http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311950 solius Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:42:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311950 As fast as that thing is moving, it's incredible that it could be tracked that accurately. Then I went to his site and saw the mount(Tak EM 400); now, I'm cleaning the drool off my laptop. As fast as that thing is moving, it’s incredible that it could be tracked that accurately. Then I went to his site and saw the mount(Tak EM 400); now, I’m cleaning the drool off my laptop.

]]> By: Carey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311949 Carey Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:07:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311949 I've got my catcher's mitt ready... I’ve got my catcher’s mitt ready…

]]> By: kuhnigget http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/20/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video/#comment-311948 kuhnigget Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:36:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=39546#comment-311948 I know the odds are way against it, but wouldn't it be cool if he could video it as it was breaking up? I know the odds are way against it, but wouldn’t it be cool if he could video it as it was breaking up?

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