Oszilloraptor
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- Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions! 11 months ago:
Nothing. It just wouldn’t reach the rotation rate in the first place. (and the camera equipment would be unusable due to the vibrations of the gyros long before it reaches theoretical maximum, as already stated in the video)
- Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions! 11 months ago:
You cannot spin up gyros indefinitely like e.g. in KSP.
- Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions! 11 months ago:
The sattelite bus for the KH-11 Spy sattelites uses thrusters for orientation (and has a huge propellant tank) while the Hubble sattelite bus uses several gyroscopes for orientation. They are not as similar as you might think.
- Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions! 11 months ago:
They have to rotate it fast enough, and hubble is not built to rotate that fast
- Comment on Making plans 11 months ago:
I don’t see the connection?
I mean, the answer is actually yes, but I don’t understand how you come up with the question
- Comment on Making plans 11 months ago:
When I was younger (and it wasn’t about drinking but smoking):
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