NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) mission has made contact with Earth and confirmed that all is well with the diminutive spacecraft. Engineers established two-way communication with the spacecraft a few days after launch as the microwave oven-sized CubeSat passed over the ground hub located at Santa Clara …
>>how much is in relation to the size of Wales?
That will be 96.1309 nanoWales
May I present, for your convenience, the El Reg. Standards converter
Heavens Above have just added it in the "Satellites" -> "10-day predictions for satellites of special interest" section of their front page.
The universe. Some information to help you live in it.
One: ‘Area’. Infinite. As far as anyone can make out
Two: ’Imports’. None. It’s impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from.
Three: ‘Exports’. None. See ’Imports’.
Four: ‘Rainfall’. None. Rain can not fall because in an infinite space there is no up for it to fall down from.
Five: Since intelligent life does not exist everywhere in our infinite Universe then the amount of intelligent life must be a finite value. And since any finite resource spread across an infinite environment is indestinguishable from not existing at all, then intelligent life does not exist in our infinite Universe! If you personally encounter intelligent life then this must be a figment of your imagination and you will just need to deal with it!
-------------> Mine is the statistical anomaly that does actually exist!
I always thought that was the explanation for there being no rain too, not the "official" one :-)
After all, in an infinite universe, anything not omnipresent is effectively not there because you can't divide infinity by anything to get an answer other than infinity, which clearly defines an infinite universe as an empty void :-)
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