Everyone

@RoryAlsop No worries; I dropped in to take a gander at the site - thought I'd run past TPB to catch anyone from the old days

@RoryAlsop 'o Rory.

Whither Brilligg?

@kim-holder: Hope you're safe, and sound.

@RoryAlsop Very pretty :D Time to put my conspiracy hat on, and speculate on why the reentry was 'unscheduled' to a date on which 3 additional meteor showers occurred. Have the principals of CZ-5B established 'Contact'? ;)

'o @RoryAlsop

Patience is a virtue, I've always thought

Pity we don't have the capability to bomb Mars with an icy comet yet :)

I remember ISRU now; I've been off too long

@geoffc: TY (+:

If ISRU == In Situ Refuelling Unit, surely they will need to top-up the fuel occassionally for station-keeping on account of drift? It probably won't be much. Nonetheless ...

ISRU == In Situ Refuelling Unit?

@peterh That's the first I've heard of Google Sky Map ...

@peterh I'm trying to locate it over stellarium; needle in a haystack

@peterh: This entity is pretty bright though of course it could be because I'm seeing it framed between two buildings that block out most of anything else

as in elevation? perhaps 20deg... that fits. my lat is 21

@peterh Hm. This one is quite visible. It's position so near the horizon is weird too but that may be because it is overhead elsewhere...

Thanks (+:

Or should I try the Astronomy chat ?

Offtopic: If a celestial body appears to remain at the same position throughout the night, then I'm probably looking at a geosynchronous satelllite, right?

'o @RoryAlsop

'ello.

@Brillig Cool :) Your reply reminded me we had this same exchange earlier too. India is good. We are all wearing masks now. A change from an era when only bandits, and highway robbers wore masks :D

@Brillig Learnt about the temblor. Trust you guys are safe and sound

'o @geoffc, @RoryAlsop

Small enough to propel a craft intermittently over a millennium?

How small can a real thermonuclear powerplant be anyway?

I thought it was an Earth orbit

It just registered ...

OK... I was thinking of a pass by Terra

Wonder what events are planned on the close approach. How close is it?

What kind of life could we get out of a real pulse propulsion system in space anyway? Would radiation hardening be a factor?

Pity Elon didn't make it longer

Makes sense... Might apply to tablets though

Period?

Mmm is roadster in orbit, or star bound anyway?

No such concept as a screen saver on phones, I suspect

What did you make?@PearsonArtPhoto

... adieu w8ii

Are questions on the site under the StackExchange copyright? Earlier today I discovered ham.narkive.in/uMqpq2ih/ft-101-ts-520-mttf-mtbf-mttr which is a near verbatim translation in Hindi of a question posted here.

@NickAlexeev Looks like my neck of the woods ...

'ello

:)

Hindi would be one

There's an echo in here .... Or is that my imagination?

Awake ... Ergo you're familiar with the alphabet if not the language

Awake ... Ergo you're familiar with the alphabet if not the language

But you do speak the vernacular?

These tiny screens Are a pain