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oh my god, what a time sink. It's not even a quarter filled in yet and I don't think I'm going to look through it all before I get fired for studying all the details and references before I get fired.ryanallen.com/gooncity/index.htm
Here's an even bigger one.
I don't think I'm going to look through it all before I get fired for studying all the details and references before I get fired.
before or after?
please say after.
At the time, the image dump topic of discussion was vasectomies. When I was born, my dad, 50 at the time, had already had a vasectomy. I found out later in life that I was artificially inseminated (sperm bank). I've been toying with the idea of looking up the ID of my genetically mutual benefactor now that I'm of age.
Christ, everyone's entering the roundabout but nobody is leaving.
Peter Thomas of Cornell University has proposed that Ceres has a differentiated interior;[6] its oblateness appears too small for an undifferentiated body, which indicates that it consists of a rocky core overlain with an icy mantle.[6] This 100 km-thick mantle (23–28 percent of Ceres by mass; 50 percent by volume[45]) contains 200 million cubic kilometres of water, which is more than the amount of fresh water on the Earth.[46] This result is supported by the observations made by the Keck telescope in 2002 and by evolutionary modelling.[7][47] Also, some characteristics of its surface and history (such as its distance from the Sun, which weakened solar radiation enough to allow some fairly low-freezing-point components to be incorporated during its formation), point to the presence of volatile materials in the interior of Ceres.
With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the asteroid belt, and contains a third (32%) of the belt's total mass.[18][19] Recent observations have revealed that it is spherical, unlike the irregular shapes of smaller bodies with lower gravity.[11] The surface of Ceres is probably made of a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals like carbonates and clays.[12] Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and ice mantle.[6] It may harbour an ocean of liquid water underneath its surface, which makes it a potential target in the search for extraterrestrial life.
The surface of Ceres is relatively warm. The maximum temperature with the Sun overhead was estimated from measurements to be 235 K (about ?38 °C) on May 5, 1991.[16] Taking into account also the heliocentric distance at the time, this gives an estimated maximum of about 239 K at perihelion.
To date, no space probe has visited Ceres. However, NASA launched the Dawn Mission on 27 September 2007, which will explore the asteroid 4 Vesta in 2011 before arriving at Ceres in 2015.[20]
The FLIP Research Vessel (FLoating Instrument Platform) is the only ship in the world with the ability to flip from a horizontal to vertical position while at sea (at least on purpose). Built to study wave height, acoustical signals, water temperature, and density, the ship is 108 meters long and weighs 700 tons.
Although it looks like a normal ship while is it en route to a location, upon arriving the front of the ship is flooded with water causing the back end to go horizontal. The procedure takes about 30 minutes, during which the crew must literally walk up the wall to remain standing. The ship contains a galley, crew quarters, and even bathrooms that work in both positions.
Even in the stormiest seas, the Flip Ship is stable due to the majority of its mass being under the troubled water. The portion that remains above is the height of a five story building.
I want me a flip ship. That is awesome.
All hail to Ron.