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THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2014 6:54 pm

pengwn wrote:

Okay, the name Philae will be in the news later this year. Why?

Hmmm?
To land this one may be a bit of a stretch but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11f4BgJKxJc

zog741 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:54 am

THE ICEMAN wrote:

pengwn wrote:

Okay, the name Philae will be in the news later this year. Why?

Hmmm?
To land this one may be a bit of a stretch but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11f4BgJKxJc

I've never heard of the Rosanna Stone...

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

pengwn wrote:

Okay, the name Philae will be in the news later this year. Why?

Was actually reading about this on space.com this morning (slow day at work)

http://www.space.com/26740-rosetta-spac ... rival.html

It's the name of a probe-lander that will separate from the probe Rosetta, attach itself to a comet, and get samples. My question is (I can't find the answer), will Philae remain attached to the comet during the comet's round-trip? I saw where it comes to our galaxy every 6.5 years. It would be cool if Philae could remain attached, hitch a ride on the comet to the galaxy on the other end of the comet's orbit, and be the first earth object to make it out of our solar system and back again. Imagine what information it could collect on a distant galaxy.

pengwn · **Posted:** Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:12 pm

zog741 wrote:

THE ICEMAN wrote:

pengwn wrote:

Okay, the name Philae will be in the news later this year. Why?

Hmmm?
To land this one may be a bit of a stretch but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11f4BgJKxJc

I've never heard of the Rosanna Stone...

Toto, I don't think ICEMAN's "in Kansas" anymore

I say MiniYoda's got it, since he gave the explicit answer, but he and frozen-water-dude can fight over control of the thread

I will mention no comet, especially 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is known to be an interstellar object, much less an intergalactic one. 67P only gets a little farther out than Jupiter, or 1/28-billionth of the way to the (relatively) nearby Andromeda galaxy. Voyager 1, which took 35 years to reach the edge of the Sun's influence, would need around 45 billion years to travel that far, never mind finding a way to make a u-turn and come back!

Philae is designed to harpoon itself to the comet's surface, and draw a sample from up to 20 cm deep. Rosetta will maintain a tight orbit and relay data as 67P swings through its next perihelion. There are no plans to retrieve either probe once the mission ends in late 2015

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:13 pm

Hey, it's not my fault Toto never released a song named Rosetta.

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

Iceman, if you have a good trivia question, feel free to post it. It might be a while before I can come up with one.

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:50 pm

MiniYoda wrote:

Iceman, if you have a good trivia question, feel free to post it. It might be a while before I can come up with one.

I don't know how good it is but, here is one anyway...

What country's national animal is a unicorn?

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

THE ICEMAN wrote:

MiniYoda wrote:

Iceman, if you have a good trivia question, feel free to post it. It might be a while before I can come up with one.

I don't know how good it is but, here is one anyway...

What country's national animal is a unicorn?

England?

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:20 pm

Close but no cigar.

mudee · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:34 pm

Scotland?

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:59 pm

mudee wrote:

Scotland?

Ding, ding, ding!!! We have a winner.
You're up Mud. 8-)

mudee · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:14 pm

Thanks ICEMAN. 8-)

In what two U.S. states would you find the Caprock Escarpment?

mudee · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:44 pm

A little hint, West of the Mississippi

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:17 pm

mudee wrote:

Thanks ICEMAN. 8-)

In what two U.S. states would you find the Caprock Escarpment?

I was waiting for someone else to answer but it doesn't look like that is happening. My brother used to live in Amarillo which is right on top of the escarpment (its okay, he has moved & is much better now :roll:

) so the answer would be Texas & New Mexico.

mudee · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:49 pm

ICEMAN has the floor.

I grew up in southeast New Mexico in a little town called Lovington also on the Caprock, or as I refer to it "The Arm Pit of New Mexico" :mrgreen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprock_Escarpment

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:09 pm

mudee wrote:

ICEMAN has the floor.

I grew up in southeast New Mexico in a little town called Lovington also on the Caprock, or as I refer to it "The Arm Pit of New Mexico" :mrgreen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprock_Escarpment

I don't think that narrows it down much. :shock:

I think we all know the name of the B-29 that dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima & the name of the B-29 that dropped the other A-bomb on Nagasaki...

What was the name given to the only B-29 that flew on both missions?

zog741 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:30 am

THE ICEMAN wrote:

mudee wrote:

ICEMAN has the floor.

I grew up in southeast New Mexico in a little town called Lovington also on the Caprock, or as I refer to it "The Arm Pit of New Mexico" :mrgreen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprock_Escarpment

I don't think that narrows it down much. :shock:

I think we all know the name of the B-29 that dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima & the name of the B-29 that dropped the other A-bomb on Nagasaki...

What was the name given to the only B-29 that flew on both missions?

Enola Gay?

-- RWM

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:49 pm

zog741 wrote:

Enola Gay?

-- RWM

Nope.

This B-29's name purportedly referred to the talents of the bombardier/navigator who could supposedly "hit a pickle barrel with a bomb from 30,000 feet".

This is the only clue I will give. Feel free to Google.

(of course BO knows this)

zog741 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:21 pm

THE ICEMAN wrote:

This is the only clue I will give. Feel free to Google.

Thank you. I did; specifically I googled "hit a pickle barrel with a bomb from 30,000 feet".

Second guess is Bockscar.

-- RWM

(of course BO knows this)[/color][/quote]

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:09 am

Strike two.
It was not the Enola Gay or Bockscar. It was a separate B-29 that served the purpose of an observation craft (okay, I guess that was another clue). :roll:

(of course BO knows this)

Death Dealer · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:04 pm **Posts:** 209

The Great Artiste which was to drop "Fatman" on 11 Aug. Change of date didn't allow for instrument changes so was used in support role again.

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:31 pm

Death Dealer wrote:

The Great Artiste which was to drop "Fatman" on 11 Aug. Change of date didn't allow for instrument changes so was used in support role again.

Hey, that's no fair... You're one of those Air Force types!!! :roll:

You're exactly right DD, you're up. 8-)

Death Dealer · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:04 pm **Posts:** 209

Sorry for late response but couldn't access system Saturday.

Sticking with World War II: What ship was sunk on 1 March 1942?

jerrys · **Joined:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:53 pm **Posts:** 7

A good question. Most would consider a U.S. ship, but it was the British cruiser HMS Exeter.

Death Dealer · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:04 pm **Posts:** 209

jerrys wrote:

A good question. Most would consider a U.S. ship, but it was the British cruiser HMS Exeter.

Actually there four ships sunk on that day. First was USS Houston shortly after midnight, which was in news last week with wreck location being confirmed. Second was HMS Exeter later that morning during Second Battle of the Java Sea along with her escort destroyers HMS Encounter and USS Pope.

You have the floor.

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