Monday 8 February 2010

Space BS5!

Today I went into London on the train; this is the last part before
Paddington.

Before I went for the train I had an early start and got a load of
work done ( in faaaaaantastic company x).

I also took a look at live Nasa TV and the Space Shuttle launch at
9.15. That was a right source of spod based fact action!

Within three minutes of launch the Space Shuttle was going 5000mph
and was already 52 miles beyond the launch site. At that rate of
knots, over the 13 seconds of this mundane train vid, the Space
Shuttle covered 17.92 miles!

Top spoddery!

Also met a very nice woman on the tube who asked me if I'd let her
know the changes needed for Kings Cross, which was my journey. This I
did happily and chattily, and that never happens in the saaaaaarf east!

5 comments:

Saz said...

my son is sitting opposite with his laptop...and l am on mine...we are about to restore his at it wont now connect to the net and he is messaging on mine..which wont do...so if l'm still here in 3 hours please save me!!

he saw the vid l just played...his eyebrows slowly raised..and he said ' whats the point?'...l wouldnt dare say that...

Suburbia said...

Hee hee Saz!

BS5 Don't forget to file that ticket ;)

!

x

dandelion said...

just a piece of info-

today i downloaded an iphone app called planets. inspired by bs5, no doubt!

Jake said...

I think its amazing that it can be moving so fas so soon. When you watch it launch it seems like it's hardly moving.

BS5 Blogger said...

Jake, thank you and welcome for as long as you are passing through.