Artemis splash down

[cheb]

One thousand million is also known as a milliard.

 

[Seadog]

He's a fantastic engineer

 

[Other Daniel]

Fortunately, my daily practical life (including my bank balance),
has no requirement for the definition to be of any importance.
I am surprised, however, that an actual number (especially a big one),
can carry such ambiguity. A number, whatever it may identify as,
should simply be a fixed amount without any further debate
neccesary....

 

[indykid]

In the real world a billion is a number it doesn't matter what any country says it is,
as I said above mathmatcally it's 1,000,000,000,000

How much is a trillion then? If you think it's 10^18 why isn't a thousand a hundred hundred?

Also, what's your name for a thousand million?

Also also, why 'mathematically' is it 10^12?

 

[colnerov]

Fortunately, my daily practical life (including my bank balance),
has no requirement for the definition to be of any importance.
I am surprised, however, that an actual number (especially a big one),
can carry such ambiguity. A number, whatever it may identify as,
should simply be a fixed amount without any further debate
neccesary....

It was until the muricans stuck there oar in.

 

[Popcorn]

How much is a trillion then? If you think it's 10^18 why isn't a thousand a hundred hundred?

Also, what's your name for a thousand million?

Also also, why 'mathematically' is it 10^12?

Coz this is how it works..........

 

[badabec]

It was until the muricans stuck there oar in.

It is surprising that the muricans went smaller than us.

 

[Popcorn]

They just wanted to be the first country to have a billionaire, so they made it smaller..........

 

[indykid]

Coz this is how it works..........

Ah, I see you're a man of reasoned discourse.

Moving on then

 

[Popcorn]

Ah, I see you're a man of reasoned discourse.

Moving on then

I won't get into a argument on this one coz you'll just beat me with experience............

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

In modern financial mathematics I'm pretty sure most people use million, billion, trillion as 10^6,10^9,10^12.

 

[daleyd]

the same principle with the heat from the rockets housing the cone of the rocket

But you kept referring to "jet engines in space". While the principle is the same (Both are thrust engines) the way they achieve this is very different.

 

[Ross365]

In modern financial mathematics I'm pretty sure most people use million, billion, trillion as 10^6,10^9,10^12.

Financial, scientific...whatever.

 

[Maxakarudy]

the same principle with the heat from the rockets housing the cone of the r

But you kept referring to "jet engines in space". While the principle is the same (Both are thrust engines) the way they achieve this is very different.

All engines work by thrusting against the medium they are surrounded by, (air or water) what does a rocket engine thrust against in the vacuum of space?

 

[Bullet2012]

millionaires shortbread has been superseded by billionaires shortbread.
however both only cost pennies more than the standard version.
who is eating all this stuff to make these people so wealthy ?

 

[qwakers]

All engines work by thrusting against the medium they are surrounded by, (air or water) what does a rocket engine thrust against in the vacuum of space?

isaac newton has a lesson for you. for each action there is a equal and opposite reaction.

chucking burning rocket fuel out the ass of the rocket motor causes the rocket itself to move away in the opposite direction. isaac says its absolutely not necessary for the exhaust to hit anything to create thrust.

 

[atomant48]

All engines work by thrusting against the medium they are surrounded by, (air or water)

I never knew that.

Makes me wonder how a jet plane moves down the runway - surely as soon as the thrust is increased with the plane standing still it would blow all the air out the way and there would be nothing left to thrust against ?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Financial, scientific...whatever.

I googled it....apparently there were just 2 different standards (long vs short).

To keep things vaguely on topic...I think one of the mars probes (mars climate orbiter) was lost because some of the scientists decided to use imperial instead of metric!

 

[gaz1]

All engines work by thrusting against the medium they are surrounded by, (air or water) what does a rocket engine thrust against in the vacuum of space?

most rocket engines still push against stuff but with space its different nothing to stop it or slow it other than gravity or a black hole

 

[Onoff]

I googled it....apparently there were just 2 different standards (long vs short).

To keep things vaguely on topic...I think one of the mars probes (mars climate orbiter) was lost because some of the scientists decided to use imperial instead of metric!

1998, only a year before Moonbase Alpha.