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Uh yes, that's exactly how you lower your orbit for reentry.
What do you think is the method?
Tell us something we don’t know.
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What do you think is the method?
Rockbadchild
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Moose were used a lot more then you think in the old days,
this is a prospector in Alaska Not sure if its real but it is claimed to be...
Beginning in the winter of 1910, St. Albert's mail began to be delivered by moose-drawn carriage. The two postal moose, Pete and Nelly, were owned by W.R. “Buffalo Bill” Day, and they transported mail between the different communities of the region, going as far north as Wabasca and as far south as Edmonton.
www.stalbertgazette.com
Then there's the soviet moose cavalry
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this is a prospector in Alaska Not sure if its real but it is claimed to be...
Beginning in the winter of 1910, St. Albert's mail began to be delivered by moose-drawn carriage. The two postal moose, Pete and Nelly, were owned by W.R. “Buffalo Bill” Day, and they transported mail between the different communities of the region, going as far north as Wabasca and as far south as Edmonton.
Did you know … St. Albert once had moose-drawn mail service?
Read the full story and comment on stalbertgazette.com
www.stalbertgazette.com
Then there's the soviet moose cavalry
Moose cavalry - Wikipedia
Of moose and men: A brief history of domesticated moose in Alaska
The first man to bring news of the Klondike Gold Rush to the contiguous United States also domesticated a pair of moose. And he wasnt the only one with a pet moose at the turn of the 20th century.
Oaktree
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While my present property has modern survey markers (the previous owner had sold off a piece of it in the 80s, and had the whole piece surveyed), my previous house's deed was like that. So many rods this way, and that way with "stake and stones" as the lot corners. As Jstpssng noted, all noted abutters who likely hadn't been around since the early 1900s. I didn't really find all my property lines until maybe 20 years later when an abutting piece of land was subdivided, and the surveyors doing that flagged them. Turns out my property went further back than I thought it did!
I never would have found those boundary markers on my own.
Interestingly, I bought an adjoining piece of property a few years after buying the house, and the deed did not contain any reference to my other lot!
I bought a newspaper in Vermont about 20 years ago. It showed a picture taken at a fair around 1900 of two Skandinavian immigrants who had a team of moose, and a team of elk, if I remember correctly. I haven't seen it in years and may have tossed it.Moose were used a lot more then you think in the old days,
this is a prospector in Alaska Not sure if its real but it is claimed to be...
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Beginning in the winter of 1910, St. Albert's mail began to be delivered by moose-drawn carriage. The two postal moose, Pete and Nelly, were owned by W.R. “Buffalo Bill” Day, and they transported mail between the different communities of the region, going as far north as Wabasca and as far south as Edmonton.
Did you know … St. Albert once had moose-drawn mail service?
Read the full story and comment on stalbertgazette.com
View attachment 845845
Then there's the soviet moose cavalry
Moose cavalry - Wikipedia
Of moose and men: A brief history of domesticated moose in Alaska
The first man to bring news of the Klondike Gold Rush to the contiguous United States also domesticated a pair of moose. And he wasnt the only one with a pet moose at the turn of the 20th century.
orezok
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Well, they have air brakes. Oh, wait a minute. There’s no air up there. OOPS!Don't they have brakes?
Bruce
Before trains had air brakes, some had vacuum brakes.
Vacuum brake - Wikipedia
"The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s. A variant, the automatic vacuum brake system, became almost universal in British train equipment and in countries influenced by British practice. Vacuum brakes also enjoyed a brief period of adoption in the United States,..."
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WinterDeere
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There are two heavily-traveled roads near here, which I used to drive daily, where the road is so close to a structure that you're literally driving under the eve of the roof. Sometimes a problem, when tall trucks ignore max height limit signs.
One is in a village named "Devil's Half Acre", and I used to drive through it every day on my way to/from work. There's a spot so narrow in that road, where it turns around the corner of a barn, that there used to be constant accidents before they eventually installed stop signs going both directions. The other is in Forrest Grove, and you go under the eave of a house as you come off an old narrow stone bridge, and turn to go up a hill. We almost flipped a van there once, as a deer was waiting in our lane just around the corner as you came around the house.
I think they managed it a little better here, but at the expense of traffic flow. We have pinch spots (Lederach, anyone?) where traffic routinely backs up a half mile, due to not wanting to take out a historic house or inn at a critical intersection.
There's a "Need Hammer Road", not far from here. Always found that one amusing, even for a guy who grew up near Devil's Half Acre.Near me is Bootleg Rd... wonder what the early settlers here did
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Devil’s Half-Acre, a riverfront property with a colorful past to match its name, goes on sale for $1.3M
Legend has it that it used to be a brothel in the 1800s, but now it's a gorgeous riverfront home.
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That was one of the early taverns in the area, as was my FILs house in Yardley.
Very cool story.
Where you go through the house/barns, was also a restaurant and still has a small art center I think.
ning
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You laugh butDon't they have brakes?
Bruce
most satellites are low enough that there actually is some drag and they actually need to occasionally fire thrusters to maintain the orbit lest it decay [nb, most satellites are not in geostationary orbits nor are they high enough to avoid drag issues].
In the movie "2010", their spacecraft deployed huge airbags to increase drag ("aerobraking") to reduce speed to enter an orbit around Jupiter; you could do the same with a satellite to get its orbit to decay more rapidly, though it would likely still take some time... and it would be much less complex to just carry a little bit of fuel for one final burn to slow it down in its orbit, which would cause it to drop towards the Earth somewhat - typically a much more elliptical orbit which causes the satellite to encounter more and more atmosphere with every pass, slowing it down more and more, dropping it more and more... until it falls all the way (well, parts of it will just vaporize, but those will likely fall as well as "space dust" eventually).