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WCDT Strips 3046-3050 (14th to 18th September 2015)
Y:
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 14 Sep 2015, 18:48 ---Hey Y, uh, could I have some random numbers? No reason, totally not gonna use them for the Lotto or anything... :wink:
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Okay, 1 2 3 4 5 6, I'm sure that's going to win sometime somewhere.
--- Quote from: Spiritz on 14 Sep 2015, 21:37 ---I just realized something... if that's what happened to Coffee of Doom... what happened to their apartments? Especially since it seems that... Hanners probably used it more often there....
Ahh crap, Winslow's going to get flatter, isn't he?
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Wasn't their practice room upstairs? Perhaps they now have some extra drums if the roof didn't hold.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: gopher on 15 Sep 2015, 03:53 ---The physics of this is annoying. Anything falling even from low earth orbit with no means of retardation would have a shed load of energy to spend.
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Less than you think... depending on angle, by 5000 metres altitude it's slowed considerably, so impact velocity is about the same as if dropped from 5000m.
Depending on density and cross-section, that kind of shape might only hit at less than 60 km/h. If Jeph hasn't done research on it, he's guessed really well. Peak g-force might be 40g or so - 400 m/s-2.
The Genesis craft hit at 300 km/h, with a mass of 275kg and diameter of 1,5m, max decel 30g. Assuming 15 kg mass, 1m diameter, 50 km/h is about right. Might be less. A 90kg mass with that cross-section hits at about 200 km/h.
Zebediah:
Hm, this needs some testing. Fortunately MIT is just down the road, and I have a cousin in the engineering program there. "Design an orbit-to-ground pizza-delivery system" is exactly the sort of project MIT engineers would really get into. Especially if they get to eat the pizza after landing.
DSL:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 15 Sep 2015, 05:39 ---
--- Quote from: gopher on 15 Sep 2015, 03:53 ---The physics of this is annoying. Anything falling even from low earth orbit with no means of retardation would have a shed load of energy to spend.
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Crumple zones.
(Who says this has to make sense? :-D )
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There you go. They were deep-dish when they were de-orbited, and reached the ground as (proper) thin-crust pies.
Y:
Actually, anyone noticed the face in the smoke?
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