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They’d have to have it on a line.
If you'd taken the time to read the 5 pages of explanation and hypotheses regarding the various Swallow breeds, you'd know they were theoretically using a vine to carry the worlds theoretically smallest coconut, being lifted by the Mosque Swallow (largest type of Swallow)

https://interestingengineering.com/...grail-airspeed-velocity-of-an-unladen-swallow

Very disappointed in you Tim.....:)
(It took me 2 goes to get through those pages and I'm a MP fan....No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition...)
 
A baseball size onion, tomato, or any other vegetable or fruit that's mostly water (i.e. not e.g. a pepper or potato or something) weighs a half pound, close enough for most purposes. If it's softball size, then it's a whole pound.
 
A baseball size onion, tomato, or any other vegetable or fruit that's mostly water (i.e. not e.g. a pepper or potato or something) weighs a half pound, close enough for most purposes. If it's softball size, then it's a whole pound.
They responds somewhat differently to bats than baseballs and softballs, too.
 
This music video was included on the CD upgrade from Windows 3.?? to Window 95. It looks far better though now as the image is not limited to 640x480.

 
That's why it wasn't really a hit when they brought Coca-Cola into space on STS-51F. Carbonated beverages and microgravity don't mix.

It didn't help either that there was no refrigerator on the space shuttle, so they had to drink room temperature coke.
 
It didn't help either that there was no refrigerator on the space shuttle, so they had to drink room temperature coke.
So why did they bother? I can except that they didn’t know about carbonation but it seems to me that it would be difficult to get it out of the can because normally you use gravity when drinking soda.
 
So why did they bother? I can except that they didn’t know about carbonation but it seems to me that it would be difficult to get it out of the can because normally you use gravity when drinking soda.
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“If you build it, they will come.”
If you build a large base with restricted comings and goings, you include recreational facilities. I bet there's a movie theater.
 
So why did they bother? I can except that they didn’t know about carbonation but it seems to me that it would be difficult to get it out of the can because normally you use gravity when drinking soda.
My understanding is that it was a paid-for publicity stunt by the Coca-Cola Corporation, and they designed a special 0-G container for it. Pepsi also had their say on a later mission. Like now on the ISS, you could pay for something to be flown on the shuttle. Until Challenger, companies could also pay for their people to fly on the shuttle; that's what a Payload Specialist was.
 
I knew a former payload specialist where I first worked in aerospace. At the Cape's visitor center, they make you pay for lunch with an astronaut; I did it once or twice a week. Settled an academic argument between him and his boss about a purely ballistic shot to space.
 
My understanding is that it was a paid-for publicity stunt by the Coca-Cola Corporation, and they designed a special 0-G container for it. Pepsi also had their say on a later mission. Like now on the ISS, you could pay for something to be flown on the shuttle. Until Challenger, companies could also pay for their people to fly on the shuttle; that's what a Payload Specialist was.
Ok that explains it.
 
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