FARK.com: (6849675) NASA's twin GRAIL probes closing in on moon orbit, just need to pass through the cave of Caerbannog

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kungfu jesus with a side of lime

2011-12-29 11:25:47 AM

no no no, from the back of the throat, showing shock and alarm

p4p3rm4t3

2011-12-29 11:26:42 AM

The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

the_sidewinder

2011-12-29 11:28:48 AM

Maybe he was dictating

INeedAName

2011-12-29 11:35:59 AM

p4p3rm4t3: The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

So how long would it take a swallow to get there?

bdub77

2011-12-29 11:38:31 AM

LOOK AT THE BONES!

Ivo Shandor

2011-12-29 11:42:19 AM

What, behind the rabbit?

pastorkius

2011-12-29 11:43:14 AM

INeedAName: p4p3rm4t3: The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

So how long would it take a swallow to get there?

African or European?

p4p3rm4t3

2011-12-29 11:48:56 AM

approximately* 416.66666666666666666666666666667 days

ds_4815

2011-12-29 11:55:36 AM

pastorkius: INeedAName: p4p3rm4t3: The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

So how long would it take a swallow to get there?

African or European?

If European, then the average airspeed velocity (unladen) is about 11 m/s. Using this, it would take about 1160 years to reach the moon.

Evil Mackerel

2011-12-29 11:57:48 AM

My 240 is on it's way back from the Moon.

ds_4815

2011-12-29 11:58:15 AM

...Wait, bloody hell that's off. It's abut 416 days, as stated above.

/I don't want to go on the cart

Jim DiGriz

2011-12-29 12:38:28 PM

ds_4815:If European, then the average airspeed velocity (unladen) is about 11 m/s.

Wow, that's greater than the acceleration due to gravity. 1G=9.8 m/s.

Who knew swallows could achieve breakaway?

_{/I know, 2 different things. One is speed, and the other is acceleration}

A_Listless_Wanderer

2011-12-29 12:45:39 PM

ds_4815: pastorkius: INeedAName: p4p3rm4t3: The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

So how long would it take a swallow to get there?

African or European?

If European, then the average airspeed velocity (unladen) is about 11 m/s. Using this, it would take about 1160 years to reach the moon.

How do you know so much about swallows?

gerbilpox

2011-12-29 12:47:44 PM

Bad, wicked, naughty Zoot! She has been setting fire to our beacon, which - I have just remembered - is grail-shaped. ...

You must tie her down on a bed ... and spank her.

Turcicus

2011-12-29 01:13:18 PM

Only the penitent man shall pass.

macross87

2011-12-29 01:26:03 PM

Turcicus: Only the penitent man shall pass.

What....is your favorite color?

Fano

2011-12-29 01:30:29 PM

Choose wisely, and don't pass the Seal

Larva Lump

2011-12-29 01:45:27 PM

gerbilpox

You must tie her down on a bed ... and spank her.

So, in a nut-shell; sex is more fun than logic.

// One cannot prove this, but it is.
// Mind the cartons of yoghurt.
// Pray for Alma Kogen.
// Er, this is irrelevant, isn't it?
// It's not easy to pad these out to thirty posts.
// Off to RTFA and calibrate the sheep's bladders.

shanteyman

2011-12-29 02:05:52 PM

Sounds like NASA chose .... wisely !

SevenizGud

2011-12-29 02:19:58 PM

Jim DiGriz: ds_4815:If European, then the average airspeed velocity (unladen) is about 11 m/s.

Wow, that's greater than the acceleration due to gravity. 1G=9.8 m/s.

Who knew swallows could achieve breakaway?

/I know, 2 different things. One is speed, and the other is acceleration

Not the way you wrote them. The way you wrote them they are both speeds. Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2

Kittypie070

2011-12-29 02:38:01 PM

I was expecting better from you people.

Jim DiGriz

2011-12-29 03:29:03 PM

SevenizGud:Not the way you wrote them. The way you wrote them they are both speeds. Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2

Yes, but 1G is the acceleration force of gravity on any given body on the surface of the Earth. I left off the ^2 to make a (very small) joke...

Kant Lavar

2011-12-29 07:59:30 PM

gerbilpox: [img594.imageshack.us image 640x427]

Bad, wicked, naughty Zoot! She has been setting fire to our beacon, which - I have just remembered - is grail-shaped. ...

You must tie her down on a bed ... and spank her.

And after the spanking, the oral sex!

/Perhaps I could stay a bit longer...
//I am not in terrible peril.
///foreveralone.jpg

XMark

2011-12-29 08:36:51 PM

pastorkius: INeedAName: p4p3rm4t3: The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

So how long would it take a swallow to get there?

African or European?

I don't know that!

/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH

OnlyM3

2011-12-29 11:02:18 PM

p4p3rm4t3 Smartest Funniest
2011-12-29 11:26:42 AM
The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 250,000 miles (AND EXACTLY 402,336 kilometers)

/fixed that

The orbit is not a perfect circle, so no.. it's not "exactly" that.

Kittypie070

2011-12-30 02:42:18 PM

OnlyM3 2011-12-29 11:02:18 PM
(farky'd as: barking mad dumbf*ck 6553592)

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