On 3/18/2011 1:16 PM, Richard Clark wrote:

How did this slip from "near IR" to 32 GHz?

Hello Richard!

I'm back, and I see the old neighborhood hasn't changed much, although I
haven't seen anything from Art - hopefully the chap hasn't had a bed turn.

Here is a question or two for those who have some doubt as to the speed
of light.

A probe recently inserted itself into orbit around Mercury. How does
some presumed superluminal velocity affect the insertion?

The idea that "we" have a transmitter on Mars notwithstanding, Jupiter
has been transmitting RF for a long time. There are enough other
spacecraft running around in our solar system, and certainly if radio
waves traveled at some other velocity than what we thought they did, it
would mean a strange and useless conspiracy to hide that fact.

Cue up the twilight zone music and grab your aluminum foil hats everyone.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -