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tezzajw
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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: An old X-Files episode with the Space Shuttle... |
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I'm watching the entire series of the X-Files, as I bought them fairly cheap on DVD. Whatever you think of the show, I loved it.
Series 1, Episode 9 was called 'Space'. Basically, it involved a type of ghostly ET trying to warn off the shuttle missions with some sabotage.
Anyway, the shuttle crew had an emergency oxygen loss on board, leaving them with only a 30 minute reserve supply. Within that 30 minutes, they were able to deorbit and land safely. How close to reality is the X-Files? Can the shuttle return in 30 minutes, when an emergency occurs?
I remember all of the threads earlier this year, where it took something like 40+ hours for the shuttle missions to deorbit and land, after they undocked from the ISS. 40+ hours would be plenty of time for them to do whatever they liked and take whatever detours they need, right?
(Next Episode - Fallen Angel... about to press play.)
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Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war wow power leveling, Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much wow power leveling, work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.
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Stephen wow gold, Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered
In flyff penya, my third year at Oxford, however, I noticed that I seemed to be getting more clumsy, and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason. But it was not until I was at Cambridge, in the following year, that my father noticed, and took me to the family doctor. He referred me to a specialist, and shortly after my 21st birthday, I went into hospital for tests. I was in for two weeks, during which I had a wide variety of tests. They took a muscle sample from my arm, stuck electrodes into me, and injected some radio opaque fluid into my spine, and watched it going up and down with x-rays, as they tilted the bed. After all that, they didn't tell me wow gold, what I had, except that it was not multiple sclerosis, and that I was an a-typical case. I gathered, however, that they expected it to continue to get worse, and that there was nothing they could do, except give me vitamins. I could see that they didn't expect them to have much effect. I didn't feel like asking for more details, because they were obviously bad.
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I archlord money, have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life. Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family, and being successful in my work. This is thanks to the help I have received from Jane, my children, and a large number of other people and organisations. I have flyff penya, been lucky, that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope.5
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Do not follow these links. They may compromise your pc!
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EmilyCragg
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That spammer needs to get gone.
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