1/31: Space junk map

Undertoad · 01-31-2002, 12:45 PM

These maps of the locations of various items in space are not to scale.

But it's interesting to know that someone is keeping track of at least some of the stuff we've left out there.

Because they do make for a serious collision problem for spacecraft that expect to find nothing but vacuum in their way.

MaggieL · 01-31-2002, 02:58 PM

And all that stuff is in slightly different orbits. Here's a screenshot from th etool I use to track satellites I can talk to from my ham radio station:

jaguar · 01-31-2002, 11:44 PM

Please learn to resize images maggie! You're a repeat offender!
Yea i saw those on ZZZ, i'm supprisedthere hasne't been more serious accidents/commercial sats knocked out.

CharlieG · 02-01-2002, 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MaggieL
And all that stuff is in slightly different orbits. Here's a screenshot from th etool I use to track satellites I can talk to from my ham radio station:

Maggie,
Didn't know your a ham - I got my ticket back in December

73
KC2IXE

MaggieL · 02-01-2002, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by jaguar
Please learn to resize images maggie! You're a repeat offender!

And you're a repeat wanker, but I haven't been picking on you about it lately. I knew how to resize images when you were still wearing diapers, dear. About 800 pels across as I intended, this is the *images* forum, you know.

Looks good on my screen, sorry to hear about yours; maybe it has too many animated smilies on it. Now I know why you've been telling us you see "Fisher-Price My First PC" in your server logs....check the IP address, it's probably yours. :-)

russotto · 02-01-2002, 02:43 PM

Looks too small at work (probably all the work-related crap clogging up the screen

), but should look really good on my new 1280 x 1024 APPLE 17" STUDIO DISPLAY!

jaguar · 02-01-2002, 04:04 PM

Wide enough to completely stuff the width of the thread, its happened a few times, i'm quite sure you're capable of doing it, you're just too frigging lazy. It stuffs the width here at 1024, which is pretty damn stupid. I know its an images forum, and shock horror, you're the only person i've noticed who posts pics without bothering to resize them, being the time consuming operationit is and all.

02-01-2002, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by russotto
Looks too small at work (probably all the work-related crap clogging up the screen ), but should look really good on my new 1280 x 1024 APPLE 17" STUDIO DISPLAY!

You a Mac boy?

MaggieL · 02-01-2002, 05:03 PM

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Originally posted by jaguar
Wide enough to completely stuff the width of the thread, its happened a few times, i'm quite sure you're capable of doing it, you're just too frigging lazy. It stuffs the width here at 1024, which is pretty damn stupid. I know its an images forum, and shock horror, you're the only person i've noticed who posts pics without bothering to resize them, being the time consuming operationit is and all.

The thing with the arrows at the bottom of the window is a scroll bar. Use it.

Every image I've posted here from this machine (as opposed to URLs from another server) has been resized....even the screen shot you're whining about (although not much). The app writes an 880x470 window (along with another text window of tabular data.) I shrank it slightly after grabbing it with The GIMP, but not much because I wanted the text on it to be legible.

Yuore conserm abuot txet legebility iz legnedary, fo coruse.

Maybe you need a new video card. What resolution are you running, that this is such a big deal?

jaguar · 02-01-2002, 06:45 PM

1024x768, as i said. GF2GTS64Mb on a Sony E220....try reading.
The point is that i *shouldn't* have to scroll horizonatally, its bloody annoying. Ever been to fark? They delete images that screw the layout of the forums, there is a good reason for that.

Torrere · 02-01-2002, 08:26 PM

Yes, it is very annoying to have to scroll horizontally.

Hm. *Grin* I'm running at 800x600 resolution. When I installed Win2k, it gave me a default resolution of 800x600, and when I changed it back to my normal 1024x768 the tiny little text hurt my eyes. So I left it at 800x600 =]

jaguar · 02-01-2002, 09:07 PM

Torrere? You on a 15in or something?
Graphics stuff, switch from 1024x768@100hz to 1600*1200@72 gaaaak! Painful.

edit- 1600*1200 instad of the other way round.

MaggieL · 02-02-2002, 12:56 AM

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Originally posted by jaguar
Ever been to fark? They delete images that screw the layout of the forums

How nice. If you can't deal with an 800 pel image on a 1024 display, allow me to suggest that you go fark yourself. :-) Sorry I failed to recognize that "It stuffs the width here at 1024" means "my display is1024 wide". I thought you meant it made one of the page elements 1024 wide. I *am* reading; you might try try writing. No, on second thought, don't.

I'm not going to compromise the image quality further just so you don't have to scroll. Try using your non-wanking hand on the mouse when scrolling, just to balance out the RMI..

Further, on my browsers, the only table cell affected by the width of the image I posted is the one the image is in. If you want to see the image, scroll. If not, don't.
Either way, "stuffing the width" is exactly what you should do.

jaguar · 02-02-2002, 02:06 AM

I run an ICQ bar down the side of the screen.
Apart from that, i'm nto going to respond to uncalled for, petty insults.

jaguar · 02-02-2002, 02:09 AM

I run an ICQ bar down the side of the screen.
Apart from that, i'm not going to respond to uncalled for, petty insulting drivel that seems to be your natural state of speach.
In other news, i'm outa here anyway, schoolwork this year is crazy, and i don't have time to burn on cellar anymore, ill stop by every now and then, a bit like syc, but I won't be regualry posting.

01-31-2002, 12:45 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	1/31: Space junk map These maps of the locations of various items in space are not to scale. But it's interesting to know that someone is keeping track of at least some of the stuff we've left out there. Because they do make for a serious collision problem for spacecraft that expect to find nothing but vacuum in their way.

01-31-2002, 02:58 PM	#2
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	And all that stuff is in slightly different orbits. Here's a screenshot from th etool I use to track satellites I can talk to from my ham radio station: __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..." Last edited by MaggieL; 07-11-2006 at 05:00 PM.

01-31-2002, 11:44 PM	#3
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Please learn to resize images maggie! You're a repeat offender! Yea i saw those on ZZZ, i'm supprisedthere hasne't been more serious accidents/commercial sats knocked out. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-01-2002, 04:04 PM	#7
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Wide enough to completely stuff the width of the thread, its happened a few times, i'm quite sure you're capable of doing it, you're just too frigging lazy. It stuffs the width here at 1024, which is pretty damn stupid. I know its an images forum, and shock horror, you're the only person i've noticed who posts pics without bothering to resize them, being the time consuming operationit is and all. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain Last edited by jaguar; 02-01-2002 at 04:06 PM.

02-01-2002, 06:45 PM	#10
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	1024x768, as i said. GF2GTS64Mb on a Sony E220....try reading. The point is that i shouldn't have to scroll horizonatally, its bloody annoying. Ever been to fark? They delete images that screw the layout of the forums, there is a good reason for that. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-01-2002, 02:43 PM	#6
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Looks too small at work (probably all the work-related crap clogging up the screen ), but should look really good on my new 1280 x 1024 APPLE 17" STUDIO DISPLAY!

02-01-2002, 08:26 PM	#11
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	Yes, it is very annoying to have to scroll horizontally. Hm. Grin I'm running at 800x600 resolution. When I installed Win2k, it gave me a default resolution of 800x600, and when I changed it back to my normal 1024x768 the tiny little text hurt my eyes. So I left it at 800x600 =]

02-01-2002, 09:07 PM	#12
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Torrere? You on a 15in or something? Graphics stuff, switch from 1024x768@100hz to 16001200@72 gaaaak! Painful. edit- 16001200 instad of the other way round. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-02-2002, 02:06 AM	#14
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	I run an ICQ bar down the side of the screen. Apart from that, i'm nto going to respond to uncalled for, petty insults. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

02-02-2002, 02:09 AM	#15
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	I run an ICQ bar down the side of the screen. Apart from that, i'm not going to respond to uncalled for, petty insulting drivel that seems to be your natural state of speach. In other news, i'm outa here anyway, schoolwork this year is crazy, and i don't have time to burn on cellar anymore, ill stop by every now and then, a bit like syc, but I won't be regualry posting. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

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