Command and Conquer: Renegade Official Forums: Spam Fest

Home » General Discussions » Spam Fest » Navigation.

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

Re: Navigation. [message #441412 is a reply to message #441279]

Mon, 13 December 2010 02:12

Berkut
Messages: 508
Registered: July 2005
Location: N/A

Karma:

Colonel

Actually, I'm curious as to how NASA plots courses in space with no fixed object to gauge movement. Is it all relative to the sun? It seems like even the sun would be a bad choice given its movement within the galaxy, but perhaps because this movement isn't so readily apparent within the solar system we pretend it is a fixed object and make coordinates based off distances between the sun and individual objects?

Only reason I ask is because someone tells me you can't just plow right into Earth's atmosphere, there's a narrow margin you have to slip through lest you either skip off or burn up in reentry. It seems like it would be impossible to convey this to someone with no knowledge of our astronautics.

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Navigation. By: Berkut on Fri, 10 December 2010 08:06
		Re: Navigation. By: R315r4z0r on Fri, 10 December 2010 21:43
		Re: Navigation. By: IAmFenix on Sat, 11 December 2010 13:50
		Re: Navigation. By: saberhawk on Sun, 12 December 2010 15:38
		Re: Navigation. By: snpr1101 on Sun, 12 December 2010 00:40
		Re: Navigation. By: Berkut on Mon, 13 December 2010 02:12
		Re: Navigation. By: Dover on Tue, 14 December 2010 05:38
		Re: Navigation. By: CarrierII on Tue, 14 December 2010 09:24
		Re: Navigation. By: Berkut on Tue, 14 December 2010 18:43
		Re: Navigation. By: Dover on Wed, 15 December 2010 01:48
		Re: Navigation. By: Starbuzzz on Wed, 15 December 2010 06:01
		Re: Navigation. By: R315r4z0r on Tue, 14 December 2010 18:53
		Re: Navigation. By: Hypnos on Sun, 19 December 2010 08:06
		Re: Navigation. By: R315r4z0r on Wed, 15 December 2010 11:24
		Re: Navigation. By: Starbuzzz on Wed, 15 December 2010 11:58
		Re: Navigation. By: Starbuzzz on Wed, 15 December 2010 19:34
		Re: Navigation. By: Spoony on Thu, 16 December 2010 04:39
		Re: Navigation. By: Ethenal on Fri, 17 December 2010 01:36
		Re: Navigation. By: R315r4z0r on Fri, 17 December 2010 12:32
		Re: Navigation. By: Altzan on Thu, 16 December 2010 07:21
		Re: Navigation. By: Spoony on Thu, 16 December 2010 12:38
		Re: Navigation. By: Starbuzzz on Thu, 16 December 2010 12:52
		Re: Navigation. By: Berkut on Thu, 16 December 2010 23:15
		Re: Navigation. By: FlaminGunz on Sun, 19 December 2010 21:24

Previous Topic:	Later.
Next Topic:	how the fuck

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Dec 11 17:28:32 MST 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00933 seconds