preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (03/15/84)
#R:alice:-261700:ccvaxa:5800006:37777777600:253 ccvaxa!preece Mar 13 12:33:00 1984 One thing I've been curious about (I'm sure this has come up before, but I haven't made a habit of this file): Why did the flight IDs suddenly change from (something like) STS-7 to (something like) STS-41B? scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece
alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (04/10/84)
The new ID is broken down as follows: 1st digit -- last number of the fiscal year (e.g. 4 for 1984) 2nd digit -- ID of launch site (1 for KSC, 2 for VAFB) letter -- a sequence letter
leung@acf4.UUCP (09/24/84)
Another interesting book is "Astra and Flondrix" (author unremember); warning: it is x-rated, alt
irwin@uiucdcs.UUCP (02/11/85)
No, electric guitars do not need air. The pick-up is not a microphone, but rather a magnetic transducer. The pole piece in the transducer senses the proximity of the string to the pole piece, producing a signal at the output of the transducer based on the distance of the string from the magnetic pole piece. This way no foreign noise is picked up (background) such as sneeze, cough, etc. A recording could be made of an electric guitar in space, and played on earth to see what had been created in space. (The speakers would then have air to transmit the sound).
adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) (02/14/85)
*** YOUR MESSAGE *** > A recording could be made of an electric guitar in space, and played on > earth to see what had been created in space. (The speakers would then > have air to transmit the sound). Has anyone considered the issue of producing a guitar solo while wearing space suit gloves? Perhaps we should switch to something easier to play in a space suit, such as an electric trombone. :-) -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later."
peterb@pbear.UUCP (02/17/85)
An electric guitar pickup does produce an output that is porportional to the distance of the string to the pickup, but that is only in a perpendicular plane to the pole of the magnet. Actually the output is the voltage produced by differential flux which in turn is produced by moving a wire through a variable magnetic field. at the end of each swing the flux is highest, and in the middle of each swing the flux is at its lowest. (relative to the free flux in the wire when motionless.) Peter Barada ima!pbear!peterb
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (02/20/85)
> > No, electric guitars do not need air. The pick-up is not a microphone, > but rather a magnetic transducer. The pole piece in the transducer > senses the proximity of the string to the pole piece, producing a signal > at the output of the transducer based on the distance of the string from > the magnetic pole piece. This way no foreign noise is picked up (background) > such as sneeze, cough, etc. > > A recording could be made of an electric guitar in space, and played on > earth to see what had been created in space. (The speakers would then > have air to transmit the sound). My Rhodes works the same way. We could use bone-conduction receivers to avoid having to have air coupling. -Ron
erickp@hpgrla.UUCP (erickp) (07/08/85)
The Museum of Natural History in Denver has an IMAX theater.
ron@hpfcmt.UUCP (ron) (07/18/85)
And you thought that the Shuttle program was going to
provide USEFUL scientific data.
But..........NO !
I hope Coke and Pepsi paid a BIG bundle of $$ for the privilege of
taking the cola wars into space.
This may be a bigger waste than taking "Ralph" Garns along as ballast.
Ron Miller
("Has anyone tried Shuttle skywriting yet ?")
{ihnp4}hpfcla!ronjlm@hpfcla.UUCP (11/19/85)
As of November 18, the info from KSC's information number ((305)-867-2363) is: January 20, 1986 March 6 May 15 May 20 These are the dates of planned shuttle launches. None of these is classified. The gentleman I talked to had no information about times of the launches. (I posted this in case others were wondering about the same thing.) J. L. Marsh hplabs!hpfcla!jlm Hewlett-Packard, Ft. Collins, CO