Absolutely awesome, Sam! Assuming you have no problem with it, I'm forwarding your email to several pilot friends of mine who would definitely appreciate "Sully's" expertise! Definitely a "good stick"!
And that simulation of the satellite collision was also incredible. I love the end of the graphic showing existing debris in green and the collision debris in red. There's sure a bucket full of trash up there! It's amazing to me that we track all that crap and then thread all our space flights, etc. through it all. And some people think coming into the Port of Miami is busy? Ha! Steve Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Densler" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:41 PM Subject: [Liveaboard] More interesting stuff > Since we are talking about world events and stuff...boating related > since US Airways landed in the water and the Iridium collision could > drop debris in the ocean (I know, a big stretch to tie to liveaboards > but interesting nonetheless). > > My wife works for Analytical Graphics, a 3D modeling company that does a > lot of work with NASA, aircraft companies, and others requiring space > based simulations in 3D. AGI just created a couple of scenarios in STK > (Satellite ToolKit) that show the US Airways crash and the IRIDIUM > collision. They are pretty interesting so I wanted to send out the > links in case any of you are interested in checking it out. > > Here is a link to a video showing the Hudson River US Airways crash > modeled in STK using a combination of simulated and Passur data: > > http://www.passur.com/flash/Hudson_River_Landing_Simulation.html > > Also, here is the link to showing what we have done to model the > IRIDIUM-COSMOS collision: > > http://www.agi.com/corporate/mediaCenter/news/iridium-cosmos/ > > > -- > **************************** > > Sam Densler > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.islandfx.com/lady > > S/V Lady of the Lake > PDQ 36, Hull #15 > Melbourne, FL > > S/V Stories She Could Tell > Endeavour 37, Hull #454 > Destroyed by Hurricane Frances 2004 > Reborn and sailing again in 2007 > > **************************** > > "If you ever wonder why you ride the carousel, > you do it for the stories you can tell." > > Jimmy Buffett > "Stories We Could Tell" > A1A > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
