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Rxke · 2004-05-13 00:35:08

tip for 4: she is now an official in the French government: minister of science! Great.

(Didn't she do more than one flight, I'm 99% certain of that...)

Mad Grad Student · 2004-05-14 22:31:57

Okay, I'll give you guys some hints. Answers come tomorrow.

1. Turn to page 37 of The Case for Mars. This is why it is important to have the book for quick referance at all times. :laugh:

2. You'd be wrong if you thought that this was the last year of its particular decade.

3. The program was shared with the British, then sold to airlines at a rock-bottom price of $1 each.

Let's see if that helps. In any case, here are a few more questions.

A. What was the third country to launch a sattelite, after the USSR and USA?

B. How long did Russia's only "succesful" Mars lander operate for?

C. Micheal (sp.) Foale has more space time than any NASA astronaut, but what country is he really from?

bolbuyk · 2004-05-15 05:31:18

2. Who was NASA's first administrator?

Donald (Deke) Slayton

BTW: Luna and Lunik are the same names.

bolbuyk · 2004-05-15 05:38:39

1. What is the official name for the French space program, and..
2. In what year did France become the fourth country to launch a satelite into orbit with an indigenously-developed launcher?
4. What is the name of the first (And only) French (Or European for that matter) female cosmo/euronaut?

(I see my answer to Cindy's second question was probably wrong)

1. ESRO (Not totally sure).

2. November 26, 1965, Asterix A1 (after USSR, USA, UK)

4. Claudi Andre-Deshays (or Haignere): Soyuz TM 24 with Valeri Korzun and Alexandr Kaleri, returned in Soyuz TM 23 with Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachov
2nd trip to ISS with Viktor Afanachev and Konstatin Kozejev
She is a medicine-woman.

bolbuyk · 2004-05-15 05:41:55

Yet another two, maybe more easy than the former two of my:

1. Has Latvia ever sent a cosmonaut? What's his name? (Tip: Think about that female euronaut)

2. Who were the first that experienced artificial gravity in space?

Palomar · 2004-05-15 06:24:04

More trivia questions:
1(a). Sputniks 5 & 6 sent into orbit how many (number) each of what kind of animal?
1(b). What were the fates of these animals?
2. Who was NASA's first administrator?
3. The first pulsar to be discovered was dubbed "LGM-1" What did "LGM" stand for?

*Aw....I see Bolbuyk got the answer to Rik's question about the Frenchwoman: Claudie André-Deshays. I just found that out today...well, Bolbuyk beat me to it.

Answers to mine are:

(Sputnik 5 & 6) two dogs -each-, returned dogs live from orbit.

T. Keith Glennan.

Little Green Men.

Everyone wants a Porsche but not fingernail files! Sheesh!

--Cindy :laugh:

P.S.: Am still working on others' trivia questions.

Mad Grad Student · 2004-05-15 13:51:08

1. What is the official name for the French space program, and..
2. In what year did France become the fourth country to launch a satelite into orbit with an indigenously-developed launcher?
4. What is the name of the first (And only) French (Or European for that matter) female cosmo/euronaut?
(I see my answer to Cindy's second question was probably wrong)
1. ESRO (Not totally sure).
2. November 26, 1965, Asterix A1 (after USSR, USA, UK)
4. Claudi Andre-Deshays (or Haignere): Soyuz TM 24 with Valeri Korzun and Alexandr Kaleri, returned in Soyuz TM 23 with Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachov
2nd trip to ISS with Viktor Afanachev and Konstatin Kozejev
She is a medicine-woman.

1. Nope, guess again.

2. Perhaps you misunderstood the question, I was asking when France launched its first indigenous orbital launch vehicle, not when it launched its first sattelite.

4. Correct, you win one virtual brownie! But I left them sitting out for a while, and there probably won't be much left of this brownie after being manually shoved across the internet twice.

I'll see if there are any more attempts before revealing the answers. Bolbuyk, the answer to #2 is Yuri Gagarin. He felt the first artificial gravity in space when his retrorocket package fired to de-orbit his Vostok. The first people to experience artificial gravity through centrepital force would be Neil Armstrong nad his fellow Gemini pilot (Can't remember right now) when a thruster stuck on and sent them spinning around at 80 rpm. Talk aobut a wild ride!

bolbuyk · 2004-05-17 07:09:27

1. What is the official name for the French space program, and..
2. In what year did France become the fourth country to launch a satelite into orbit with an indigenously-developed launcher?
4. What is the name of the first (And only) French (Or European for that matter) female cosmo/euronaut?
(I see my answer to Cindy's second question was probably wrong)
1. ESRO (Not totally sure).
2. November 26, 1965, Asterix A1 (after USSR, USA, UK)
4. Claudi Andre-Deshays (or Haignere): Soyuz TM 24 with Valeri Korzun and Alexandr Kaleri, returned in Soyuz TM 23 with Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachov
2nd trip to ISS with Viktor Afanachev and Konstatin Kozejev
She is a medicine-woman.
1. Nope, guess again.
2. Perhaps you misunderstood the question, I was asking when France launched its first indigenous orbital launch vehicle, not when it launched its first sattelite.
4. Correct, you win one virtual brownie! But I left them sitting out for a while, and there probably won't be much left of this brownie after being manually shoved across the internet twice.
I'll see if there are any more attempts before revealing the answers. Bolbuyk, the answer to #2 is Yuri Gagarin. He felt the first artificial gravity in space when his retrorocket package fired to de-orbit his Vostok. The first people to experience artificial gravity through centrepital force would be Neil Armstrong nad his fellow Gemini pilot (Can't remember right now) when a thruster stuck on and sent them spinning around at 80 rpm. Talk aobut a wild ride!

1. Other guess: ELDO

2. Then I really don't know.

4. WOW!!

My #2: You beat myself: You're correct about Gagarin, but I meant of course Neil and his companion.

So question 2-bis: Who was Neil's fellow in that spacecraft? Hint: He was the same that prove Galileo's theory of falling objects was correct on TV.

BTW: At a later Gemini-mission (10 or 11) they made artificial gravity again by fixing a thether on the used Agena-stage and circling around. This was on purpose, in Neil's case, it was due to a sghortcut of a yaw-engine.

Palomar · 2004-05-17 07:22:57

4. Correct, you win one virtual brownie! But I left them sitting out for a while, and there probably won't be much left of this brownie after being manually shoved across the internet twice.

*Some reeeallly good, tough trivia questions being asked here. Sorry I didn't get more of them.

By the way, that brownie is getting some wear and tear. Let me go bake a batch of Nestle Tollhouse Cookies, and we can share them as prizes next.

The first people to experience artificial gravity through centrepital force would be Neil Armstrong nad his fellow Gemini pilot (Can't remember right now) when a thruster stuck on and sent them spinning around at 80 rpm. Talk about a wild ride!

*Yipes! Did they lose consciousness, even momentarily? Barf? I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it.

---

Okay another trivia question: If Pluto's orbit were the size of a dinner plate, the four inner planets would fit inside a ------- (fill in the blank) sitting at the center the plate.

--Cindy

John Creighton · 2004-05-17 07:47:44

Question 1.
How many permutations are their in a rubics cube?

Palomar · 2004-05-17 08:44:02

Question 1.
How many permutations are their in a rubics cube?

*Twelve.

--Cindy

John Creighton · 2004-05-17 09:02:49

"Question 1.
How many permutations are their in a rubics cube? "
*Twelve.

There are 6 permultations which all the other permutations can be built up from. Each of these 6 permutations is a compostion of 5, 4 cycles. However, there are alot more then 6 permutations in total. Anywone what the answer?

Mad Grad Student · 2004-05-18 21:27:44

"Question 1.
How many permutations are their in a rubics cube? "
*Twelve.
There are 6 permultations which all the other permutations can be built up from. Each of these 6 permutations is a compostion of 5, 4 cycles. However, there are alot more then 6 permutations in total. Anywone what the answer?

Well, let's say that there are six permutations per face of the cube, creating 720 possible faces (Don't know if that's right). In order to find the total possibilities per cube you need to take that to the sixth power, giving you 13,931,406,950,000,000 possibilites, unless I made an error. That's almost 14 quadrillion possibilites for Rubik's cubes , which actaully sounds about right. This reminds me of a scene from the movie UHF in which a blind man is fiddling with a Rubik's cube, with eaach turn asking the man sitting next to him "Is this it?" Good luck.

Anway, here are the answers to your French test:

1. CNES, an acronym for Centre National d'Etudes
Spatiales.

2. 1979, with the first launch of its Ariane 1 rocket, the forrunner of the most commercially succesful rocket series ever made.

3. The Concorde. France would have liked to have joined its fellow superpowers by entering space on its own, but that was far too expensive. Instead they teamed with the often hated British to build the Concorde. By the time development was finished, orders from over 30 airlines were cancelled because of the gas crisis of the '70s, but British Airways and Air France were legally bound to buy a certain number of units, to justify development. They only agreed to do this if they were sold for the price of $1 apeice. Last year, incidentally, Virgin Atlantic expressed intrest in keeping at least one Concorde flying, but refused to pay BA more that the $1 it paid. The deal didn't go through (duh), and now all Concordes are bound for museums.

4. Already been answered, see above.

So far there have been no attempts on questions A-C, though. They're not as hard as 1-4 were, give 'em a shot!

Palomar · 2004-05-19 05:27:09

*What's this?

*Mad Grad, I'm still working on your yet-unanswered trivia questions. It's getting tempting to run to Google at this point.

--Cindy

Rxke · 2004-05-19 07:04:59

Coca-Cola's! :;):

(Sorry, couldn't resist the very lame joke...)

John Creighton · 2004-05-20 09:18:47

Well, let's say that there are six permutations per face of the cube, creating 720 possible faces (Don't know if that's right). In order to find the total possibilities per cube you need to take that to the sixth power, giving you 13,931,406,950,000,000 possibilites, unless I made an error. That's almost 14 quadrillion possibilites for Rubik's cubes , which actaully sounds about right. This reminds me of a scene from the movie UHF in which a blind man is fiddling with a Rubik's cube, with eaach turn asking the man sitting next to him "Is this it?" Good luck.

The anser is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000
I think you say that:
45 quintillion,252 quadrillion,003 trillion, 274 billion, 489 million 856 thousand.

I am noticing a pattern with the names of the number goups. What is next sextillion or sixtillion or something else?
I wonder if there is a number called quadzillion and if there is I wonder how big it is ???

Mad Grad Student · 2004-05-29 23:54:01

A. What was the third country to launch a sattelite, after the USSR and USA?
B. How long did Russia's only "succesful" Mars lander operate for?
C. Micheal (sp.) Foale has more space time than any NASA astronaut, but what country is he really from?

Wow, school's finally done. I haven't been able to post anything anywhere because of all of the ungodly finals I've been studying for. Looking back it seems that last summer was a geologic era or so ago, so it will take me a little bit to get back in the swing of not having any school-related responsibilities. In any case, it feels kind of awkward quoting myself, but here are the answers to my trivia questions.

A. China

B. 20 seconds, after that a raging dust storm signed it off permenently.

C. Britian, or the UK to be technically correct. Like apparently many NASA astronauts, Foale is not native to the US, but is the only NASAn to have more than a year's time in space. The Russians have nearly ten.

John Creighton · 2004-06-04 11:06:50

Find one four letter word and two two letter words with none of the following letters:
a e i o u

clark · 2004-06-04 11:51:51

Here is a three letter word: "Try" or "wry" or "sky" or "fly"... that's not much fun.

Four letter word... "hymn"

two two letter words... "my" and "by"

John Creighton · 2004-06-04 13:21:47

Here is a three letter word: "Try" or "wry" or "sky" or "fly"... that's not much fun.
Four letter word... "hymn"
two two letter words... "my" and "by"

also
sh: be quite
hm: I am thinking
xyst: I think it is some medical drug
They are all accepted in scrabble.

I don't think hymn is allowed in scrabble. I will look it up.

John Creighton · 2004-06-04 13:26:16

Okay, now how many two letter words containing only values?

clark · 2004-06-04 14:06:51

Abbreviations? Well if that's the case, there are LOTS of possibilites. Hymn should be allowed- it's a prayer song.

John Creighton · 2004-06-04 14:14:48

Hymn should be allowed- it's a prayer song.

It probably is then. I will look it up.

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