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The Dragon capsule at the ISS Nasa

SpaceX capsule reaches space station with food and experiments

The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.

A SPACEX CAPSULE carrying food, experiments and other goods for Nasa has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a two-day journey.

The Dragon capsule and its 6,000-pound shipment was captured by the space station’s robot arm today.

It’s the second trip to the 250-mile-high orbiting outpost for this capsule, refurbished following a visit two years ago.

It will remain attached to the ISS for about a month, returning to Earth in May.

The space station is currently home to astronauts from the US, Russia and Japan.

The supply capsule launched on Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a used Falcon rocket. It contains food and equipment needed for experiments.

SpaceX wants to reduce launch costs by recycling rocket parts. It combined a recycled capsule and a recycled rocket once before.

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    Mute Nek nedyah
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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:12 PM

    Two days to travel 250 miles to bring food and supplies , must be the same driver who delivers my pizzas .

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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:18 PM

    @Nek nedyah: Is your house traveling at 17,150 mph?

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    Mute Liam Whelan
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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:22 PM

    @Larry Doyle: my house moves at 67,000 mph!

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    Mute Nek nedyah
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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:31 PM

    @Larry Doyle: No , but my delivery drivers vehicle doesn’t reach 25,000mph to get out of the car park

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:46 PM

    @Larry Doyle: How sweet, the kids of the Journal chance their arm with speeds.

    http://www.chemical-ecology.net/java/lat-long.htm

    Dublin turns at a rate of 15 degrees per hour so at latitude of 53 ° 30 ” North, a person turns at a speed of 534.35 mph so everyone here turns a distance of 12,824 miles in 24 hours as compared to the 24,901 miles for a person on the Equator.

    Pity all those theorists and their drones here can’t present the basic facts about how fast people turn per hour and each 24 hour day as they refuse to believe the Earth turns once each 24 hour day -

    https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/JennyChen.shtml

    True story.

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    Mute DMur
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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:48 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: But shur the Earth is flat.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 7:03 PM

    @DMur: It is better to believe the Earth is flat than get yourself in a jam that the Earth doesn’t turn at a rate of 15° per hour and once in 24 hours (15°X 24 hours = 360°).

    It is why I can easily demonstrate how fast a person at the latitude of Dublin turns in comparison to the person on the Equator where the speed is greatest and the distance covered by each in 24 hours.

    The theorists f)cked up by drawing a wrong conclusion and ended up convincing themselves that the Earth turns once more often than 24 hours days -

    ” It is a fact not generally known that,owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time,the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are days in the year” NASA /Harvard

    For those who actually like to see the Sun come into view each 24 hour day , it is because is round rotating and turn once each day and a thousand times in a thousand days.

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 4th 2018, 7:04 PM

    * For those who actually like to see the Sun come into view each 24 hour day , it is because the Earth is round rotating and turn once each day and a thousand times in a thousand days.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 7:19 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: I will try one last time to reason with you, Gerald. A solar day lasts, give or take, 24 hours. A sidereal day is a little bit shorter due to the translational motion of the planet as it progresses around the sun.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 8:36 PM

    @Thought Criminal: I suppose I could go through how the Lat/Long system works with the 24 hour system or even how the theorists in the late 17th century made a mistake by creating a solar/sidereal fiction but it is really a measure how far people will go to believe something that goes against their own nature. If you want to know how so many readers here can convince themselves that taking away the life of a developing child is something different then look in the mirror when it comes to this issue where you haven’t given the issue any thought but basically repeat a nonsense concept that the theorists have ejected for a new and equally dumb idea -

    “At the time of the dinosaurs, Earth completed one rotation in about 23 hours,” says MacMillan, who is a member of the VLBI team at NASA Goddard. “In the year 1820, a rotation took exactly 24 hours, or 86,400 standard seconds. Since 1820, the mean solar day has increased by about 2.5 milliseconds.” NASA

    So, when you wake up tomorrow morning and watch the Sun come into view, enjoy that it will do the same the next day and all the other days of your life with one rotation following the next. The theorists who made the wrong conclusion didn’t know how timekeeping developed in sequence from antiquity and neither do you.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 8:51 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: metric ffs!

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    Apr 4th 2018, 8:54 PM

    If anyone is interested, thsi is what the above eejit can’t get his wee head around. https://community.dur.ac.uk/john.lucey/users/e2_solsid.html

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:02 PM

    @Thought Criminal: People don’t value their own lives which is why they have such difficulties valuing the life of others, in this case the human body responds to one rotation of the Earth each 24 hour day -

    https://aholdencirm.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/blog_150112biological-clock-660×422.png

    The old Irish way is not to inflict insults on those with crude or aggressive views but to suffer until some people come to their senses and start to put the motions of the Earth in context of their daily and annual lives. 5,200 years after my astronomical ancestors built Newgrange and Knowth and now drones following the mistakes of the professors of Oxford and Cambridge is all I encounter.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:05 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: It may well be that one day you will be a Nobel prize winner for your theories or even committed for your own and society’s safety. However all the time you come here and address people in such a condescending and insulting manner you are just convincing people that your ramblings are that of a grey alien on heavy doses of hallucinogenic fungi. You certainly win a prize for sliding the plug to retain the 8th in the middle of that diatribe.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:22 PM

    @Patrick J. O’Rourke:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#/media/File:Biological_clock_human.svg

    Many of you have complained about condescending however people with a clear view of the matter have to return to a type of innocense and especially how timekeeping developed in a particular way so none of you have to deal with the rubbish of the late 17th century when they tried to bypass the Sun and appeal to circumpolar motion for rotation -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYy0EQBnqHI

    Men here are uninteresting and uninterested in these things and prefer to repeat old falsehoods than think things through themselves and stretch their understanding way back in antiquity to discover the roots of timekeeping.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:22 PM

    @Liam Whelan: There may be as many as a dozen black holes at the galactic center. Exactly what speed your house is traveling at is irrelevant. What matters is that we’re all just swirling around the plughole before we go down it.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:33 PM

    @Paraic McDonagh: Outside the event horizon, a black hole’s gravitational influence is only the same as an equal mass of regular matter. We’re grand.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:33 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: you fing ruined it.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:45 PM

    @Range Rover: You are kids lost in theoretical bluffing and miss some of the greatest insights on that account.

    Proof of the Earth’s orbital motion is tied to the motion of the stars from an evening appearance to a morning appearance -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQwYrfmvoQ&t=22s

    Long before thew Greeks used the observation of the Sun directly through the constellations, the older Egyptians astronomers used the seasonal first appearance of the stars to determine the beginning of the year -

    “.. on account of the procession of the rising of Sirius by one day in the course of 4 years,.. therefore it shall be, that the year of 360 days and the 5 days added to their end, so one day shall be from this day after every 4 years added to the 5 epagomenae before the new year” Canopus Decree 238 BC

    So I have people trying to insult me when they could just as easily look at how to prove the Earth moves around the Sun by getting rid of circumpolar motion and rotation and looking at the orbital picture using a central Sun and the orbital motion of the Earth.

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    Apr 5th 2018, 9:29 AM

    @Nek nedyah: It was Specsavers delivering their ‘surprise’ box which caused the delays instead of supplies.

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    Mute Liam Whelan
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    Apr 5th 2018, 10:12 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: I’d say your great craic at parties!

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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:15 PM

    I bet the food is out of this world.

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    Mute Shy Tall Knight
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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:12 PM

    We can send food to Space but not to central Africa. Clever bunch.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:30 PM

    @Shy Tall Knight: There’s about 4 people to feed in space. There’s around a billion in Africa. But I get your point

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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:42 PM

    @Shy Tall Knight: well if they let us in on the whole vibranium secret maybe we’d be better mates with them! Wakanda can’t have its cake and eat it!

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:36 PM

    @Shy Tall Knight: There are no warlords or machete-wielding militias in space to steal things we try to send either.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:54 PM

    @Thought Criminal: Haha , I can just imagine the moon buggy kitted out with a 50cal , ” this food is the property of mohammed farah aideed .

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    Apr 4th 2018, 10:31 PM

    @Roy Dowling: The cost to feed either is probably nearly the same!! What is NASA’s budget again??

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    Apr 5th 2018, 2:24 AM

    @Ian Oh: You’re right. The budget to feed the people in need in Africa is not nearly enough. And the budget for NASA is not nearly enough either.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 6:06 PM

    Good auld Musky

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    Apr 4th 2018, 8:55 PM

    Lads miles and pounds ? Its 2018 we have computers that fit in our pockets and youvare still using backwards measurments stop it !

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    Apr 4th 2018, 9:32 PM

    @Seán O’Sullivan: Just for you -

    The Earth’s circumference is 40,075 KM which means that a person turns living on the Equator turns at a rate of 1669.8 km per hour.

    If you live in Dublin at 53 degree 30 minutes North, you are turning at a rate of 989 km per hour and cover a distance of 23,736 km per day.

    Of course the airheads who believe the Earth doesn’t turn once in 24 hours can’t express these basic facts so like you they have to find something else to complain about.

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    Apr 4th 2018, 7:16 PM

    Any Easter eggs on board?

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