It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
You come up with a new way to make a neutron shield
jazz10
SATAN
Satellite Audio Tri Axial Network
jazz10
youtube search annimation of an atom.
Bedlam
jazz10
youtube search annimation of an atom.
Um. Youtube. Well, if you're about something that looks like this:
...that's absolutely incorrect. It's a view that was popular in the 1920s or thereabouts and got stuck in the group meme. Atoms have orbitals, not orbits.
Electrons don't go round and round in neat planetary looking orbits like in cheesy old 1950s scifi movies.
Stealthbomber
reply to post by jazz10
David Rothschild used to be on the board of Motorola too, you should add that in, it's not a good conspiracy without the illuminati lol
FAST FACTS
A publicly traded company headquartered in McLean, Va., Iridium manages several operations centers, including Tempe, Arizona and Leesburg, Virginia, U.S.A. The U.S. Department of Defense, through its own dedicated gateway, relies on Iridium for global communications capabilities.
Bedlam
reply to post by jazz10
Perhaps you missed the part where electrons don't orbit the nucleus like satellites. Ever.
The over-the-pole orbital design produces "seams" where satellites in counter-rotating planes next to one another are traveling in opposite directions. Cross-seam inter-satellite link hand-offs would have to happen very rapidly and cope with large Doppler shifts; therefore, Iridium supports inter-satellite links only between satellites orbiting in the same direction. The constellation of 66 active satellites has 6 orbital planes spaced 30 degrees apart, with 11 satellites in each plane (not counting spares). The original concept was to have 77 satellites, which is where the name Iridium came from, being the element with the atomic number 77 and the satellites evoking the Bohr model image of electrons orbiting around the Earth as its nucleus
jazz10
reply to post by Bedlam
The over-the-pole orbital design produces "seams" where satellites in counter-rotating planes next to one another are traveling in opposite directions. Cross-seam inter-satellite link hand-offs would have to happen very rapidly and cope with large Doppler shifts; therefore, Iridium supports inter-satellite links only between satellites orbiting in the same direction. The constellation of 66 active satellites has 6 orbital planes spaced 30 degrees apart, with 11 satellites in each plane (not counting spares). The original concept was to have 77 satellites, which is where the name Iridium came from, being the element with the atomic number 77 and the satellites evoking the Bohr model image of electrons orbiting around the Earth as its nucleus
Now do you see?