Jimmy Jackson

[Slartibartfast]

Does anyone want to point out that the atmosphere isn't actually on fire?

[Fleetbabe]

No but if the ball went through it, the heat is so much that it would catch fire, and be no more. There must have been some sort of heat protection on the ball then.

 

12 miles, is that all, I thought it would have gone more than that.

[Slartibartfast]

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No but if the ball went through it, the heat is so much that it would catch fire, and be no more.

What heat?

[Harry J Allstars]

I thought space was cold. Also doesn't snow come from above and I thought the top of mountins are cold.

[Fleetbabe]

Why do spacecraft worry about burning up on re entry then? I thought that it was because the atmosphere was quite warm, to say the least!

[Slartibartfast]

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I thought space was cold. Also doesn't snow come from above and I thought the top of mountins are cold.

Yes but stars are hot and they are up there too.....hmmm tricky.

[Harry J Allstars]

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Yes but stars are hot and they are up there too.....hmmm tricky.

Now I am Confused

[Slartibartfast]

Ok Harry.....Comets....Hot or Cold?

[Stu M]

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Why do spacecraft worry about burning up on re entry then?

Spacecraft worry about all sorts of things. The Space Shuttle wondered if its bum looked big on the back of a booster rocket, and Apollo 13 was just sooo paranoid. Burning up on re-entry is just another of their little idiosynchrasies...

[David Holden]

But Drury's penalty has acheived re-entry yet, perhaps it will burn up when it does.

[Fleetbabe]

But if it didn't burn up going out, it should be alright coming back in!

 

Where's it gonna land when it does re enter the earth's atmosphere?

[Stu M]

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Where's it gonna land when it does re enter the earth's atmosphere?

Gillingham's new stadium. Straight on top of Space Cadet Scally.

[Fleetbabe]

Hmm, would that be in the new board room, or in the centre of the pitch.

 

Ooooo, oooo, maybe SPACE CADET SCALLY will be sent into orbit to retrieve the ball, and stay up there!

 

Anywhere else it could land, what about the Millenium dome?

[Blinkjim]

i think its caused by friction of the air molecles on the outer surface of the spcae craft, causing the particles to heat up, and a sort of plasma to form on the outer surface of the heat shield, and as you saw with the columbia, no heat shields = disaster. Dont think there is a same problem for exiting the atmosphere though.

 

Well i think thats it, saw a documentry once, u see, made me think i know most things.

[Fleetbabe]

But its the same for exiting the atmosphere isn't it?

 

I vote we send SPACE CADET SCALLY up to retrieve the ball for Jukebox!

[Stu M]

Yeah, but imagine if extra-terrestrial civilisation's first meeting with the human race was represented by the form of Scally...?!

 

Interstellar war in an instant. And they'd probably be justified in vapourising the planet.

[Bate'o]

He would probably try to build a ground on their planet!!

[David Holden]

And Charlton would send a coach to collect the fans.

[Slartibartfast]

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And Charlton would send a coach to collect the fans.

Surely they would be ManYoo fans.

[Fleetbabe]

They'd put up a fight over the ground just like we have.

 

Vapourising scally, what an ingenious idea!!