Mercury Is Shrinking

[Ron61]

Kind of interesting , at least to me.

NASA photos reveal Mercury is shrinking - Yahoo! News

Ron

[Wes Tausend]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Kind of interesting , at least to me.

NASA photos reveal Mercury is shrinking - Yahoo! News

Ron

Wrinkled and shrinking? Like a raisen?

Perhaps too much sun, Ron?

Makes me wonder why the earth's crust moves around. And are our mountainous regions increasing over time because of shrinkage? One might say they are since tectonic crust movement seems to create bumps, not valleys. Interesting.



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[wtm442]

Nice place to visit.

At night its about -270°F, and during the day it warms up just a bit to 800°F.

[Ron61]

Wes,

If I was that close to the sun with those temperatures I sure wouldn't be thinking about a Cobra. On the other hand, Warren could possibly get in a fast round of golf before his ball melted or froze and broke.

Ron

[Wes Tausend]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Wes,

If I was that close to the sun with those temperatures I sure wouldn't be thinking about a Cobra. On the other hand, Warren could possibly get in a fast round of golf before his ball melted or froze and broke.

Ron

Golf might be a little tricky.

My buddy tells me that some of the new long range sniper rifles are accurate out so far that the shooter has to take into consideration the rotation of the planet. If this is true, one might also have to take into consideration the orbit of the planet, especially one that orbits as fast as Mercury.

And if the effect is both true and severe enough, Warren may have to take the same into consideration on a long golf drive. All the while he is trying to keep warm on one side and find shade on the other.

Off-hand, have you heard anything about planet rotation actually significantly affecting a long range bullet? I was a little skeptical and I know you enjoy the target hobby.


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[Ron61]

Wes,

No, I hadn't seen or heard anything about a long range rifle that the rotation of the planet has to be taken into consideration. The latest Sniper Rifles I have seen pictures of and read about have an effective range of about 1 1/2 miles in the hands of a good shot and they have to consider gravity. Even the short range missiles ( 100/250 miles ) don't have anything in the specs I have seen that say anything about the rotation of the Earth. But I don't get all of the latest books and papers on this stuff any more so I would guess it could be possible.
My idea of using the rotation of the planet to good effect would to be an anti gravity round or shell that you could just hand in the air, point it toward the direction the Earth would be rotating the target to it, and set it to explode when the target gets there.

Ron

[Wes Tausend]

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Ron,

My buddy reloads and has a shooting chronograph to measure bullet speed, so I consider him to be fairly knowledgeable. On the other hand, he has come up with some BS on occasion also. I don't know where he got this info.

A young man, that my buddy was teaching re-loading, requested that I record a Military Channel documentary on a new .408 caliber sniper round that supposedly falls between the .50 and .308. I recorded and edited to disc, several programs on snipers ....but not a one of them had any mention of the .408. It exists though: ( .408 Chey Tac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).

Since then, the young man has joined the army and is in Ft. Benning, GA (Basic Training) as we speak, er type. According to these TV programs, Ft. Benning is the home of a top notch sniper training center. One of the programs he specifically picked, and I recorded, is called Top Sniper and is still coming up on the TV schedule last I looked.

With carefully selected re-loads, my buddy and the young man claimed to have had his ordinary light-barreled Remington bolt .30-06 down to a consistant 1 inch group at 100 yards. At any rate, I think he might be interested in applying for sniper training, down the road.


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[Ron61]

Wes,

I have watched a couple of documentary shows on Snipers and also listened to the interviews of the ones from Vietnam and the Gulf War. Our top Sniper in Vietnam was named Carlos. He died in 1997 I think it was from some crud he caught over there, but he has the longest verified kill on record, and it was with a 50 caliber machine gun and 1 round. Some North vietnamese General was standing on top of a mountain just over a mile away watching a fire base and Carlos took his sniper scope and mounted it on a 50 Cal. machine gun. He put 1 round in and aimed and fired. They recovered the generals body and most of his head was gone.
Also the British have one of the best sniper training courses in the world. They really have to be good to even get into it.
But they have so many new gadgets and arms in the testing or development state now that it is impossible to know what all is going on. Remember, when I was young our Snipers carried rocks and a sling.

Ron

[VRM]

How about Uranus? Is that shrinking too? Does Nassa have a probe for that as well? Have they measured any assteroids to see if they are shrinking as well? I'll bet that black holes are sucking everything in, so the universe is shrinking and will soon collapse on itself in the opposite of the Big Bung.

I'm really bummed out now...


Steve

[Ron61]

Steve,

Now I am going to really give you something to worry about. I think they said our Sun would burn itself out in another 5 Billion years. Maybe we had better start our spaceship now.

Ron

[VRM]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Steve,

Now I am going to really give you something to worry about. I think they said our Sun would burn itself out in another 5 Billion years. Maybe we had better start our spaceship now.

Ron

That would be a catASStrophe!!

I hope Jamo appreciates all this free advertising for his avatar.

Steve

[Ron61]

Now if we could just add Fred's Avatar to the front of Jamo's we would really have something. Just not sure what.

Ron

[Silverback51]

My waist line is still expanding.

[trularin]

Doesn't Mercury do this...all the time due to temperature?