horseman wrote:.....Perhaps on his planets next "orbital periapsis" with ours he might consider just posting the data and sparing us his conclusions? Incidentaly have you succeeded in encouraging VM to become <cough> "more transparent"
with their "pre/post RS count" inaccuracies?
Didn't understand much of that paragraph, Horse except that I haven't succeeded in encouraging VM to do anything of a transparent nature.
Talking about going round in circles, what's an "orbital periapsis"? Is it what a circumschnickeled planet does? Or does our friend Rocker have a special place there?
An Orbital Periapsis is the closest point in an Orbit to the Orbited object. It only occurs in an Elliptical orbit as a spherical orbit has an equal periapsis at all times.... And has a different name, Comets have a Periapsis whereas the earth has a Perigee. The opposite of a Periapsis is a Apoapsis, the furthest point. It is only used in general terms where the focus is not known. Our planets all have different names for it.
1= Apoapsis; 2= Periapsis; 3= Focus
I think, been a very long time since I did orbital mechanics....
No, it would be more accurate to say, if he lives in a different planet, then on his next orbital periapses with our sun, he could drop off some data, (of course that would rely on the earth being in close proximity of his planet at the time, not garanteed of course)
This is of course on the presumtion that I have remembered correctly in the first place, but tbh i've got better things to do, like persuade Virgin that my idea of a working connection and theirs is more akin to being on different planets than this thread lol.
Tell you what rocker, bring your xbox to my house, my pings measure in the 100's not 10's and my avg latency/jitter is 50-100, not 5-15.
Your better off calling 151 and asking to speak to the network team, explain the situation and go through them, you will stand a better chance of something being done.
I might also point out that Virgin are still having routing problems with MW3, if you search the forums, you will find the thread,
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Not only did I not understand what he wrote, nor did he!. LOL double LOL.
Oh but sir I think I did, and just like Shaggy I used the "generic term" referring to any celestial body orbiting another. I could have(more acceptably) specifically used the (derivation from the Greek) "gee" suffix to refer to a body orbiting the Earth and stated "Perigee" instead?
In Shaggy's example it would be "Perihelion" when orbiting the Sun! (Derived from "helios" the Greek for Sun).
Ironically my own "son" currently orbits Hatfield Uni reading AstroPhysics.... that is occassionaly, along with beer....women....lacrosse et al.
However since it's a few years now since he's asked me to check his homework, I found this reference for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periapse
But I take your point about mutual planets orbiting each other.... call it "artistic license", perhaps I should have said Mr Rocker lived on the moon and used "Pericynthion" instead?
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