Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


lisah - May 13, 2009 5:45:21 am PDT #19223 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

lisah, maybe you could crush it and put it in something like the baby food?

Well, the anti-bio doesn't really crush well. He'd taken it whole in baby food for 3 doses and then ate around it this morning. I tried crushing it and he still turned his nose up at it. It's pretty bitter I think.

Are you boarding hi, lisah? If so, could they give it to him in an IV?

I may have to end up doing that which I really didn't want to. It stresses him out. They could give me the meds in injectible form but I guess it could cause problems? And I'm not sure how comfortable my pettsitter would be giving them to him. They could also do a liquid formulation but, really, it's hard getting anything in his mouth he doesn't want there. I'm not sure that squirting a liquid in would work and not be a complete mess. I'm going to try it in cream cheese tonight and see if that fools him.


Trudy Booth - May 13, 2009 5:50:57 am PDT #19224 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

The space junk isn't accelerating, it's at constant velocity and the danger is kinetic energy equals mass time velocity squared and it's the velocity squared part that makes it dangerous.

Yeah. Duh.


Gudanov - May 13, 2009 5:54:20 am PDT #19225 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Okay, technically it is accelerating due to the force of the Earth's gravitational field. I hadn't thought that through, but that's a directional change in velocity not a change in speed. It's still the kinetic energy they should be talking about.


Tom Scola - May 13, 2009 5:54:28 am PDT #19226 of 30000
hwæt

The space junk isn't accelerating, it's at constant velocity and the danger is kinetic energy equals mass time velocity squared and it's the velocity squared part that makes it dangerous.

Well, technically, since it's traveling in a circle, it's undergoing acceleration. Space junk has a constant speed, not constant velocity, because speed is a scalar and velocity is a vector.

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Trudy Booth - May 13, 2009 5:55:11 am PDT #19227 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

::nodding::

What those guys said.


Gudanov - May 13, 2009 5:56:05 am PDT #19228 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Barely got my correction made in time.


tommyrot - May 13, 2009 5:56:20 am PDT #19229 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Space junk has a constant speed

Well, unless it's in an elliptical orbit....


tommyrot - May 13, 2009 5:57:05 am PDT #19230 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Also, as soon as Dark Side of the Moon finishes on my iPod, I'm gonna play the Devo song "Space Junk."

Ahead of their time, the Devo....


Gudanov - May 13, 2009 5:57:41 am PDT #19231 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Still within a constant range of speeds.


sarameg - May 13, 2009 6:03:19 am PDT #19232 of 30000

One of the things being installed is a soft-capture device, so something robotic can go up, grab it and do whatever with it once it has reached EOL.