Also, I thought it interesting that the ESA launches in Guiana is because of its location near the equator. The rockets launched there can steal a little of the Earth’s rotational energy helping it save some fuel.
Stories like Lagrange always make me smile. The use of mathematics as a tool of discovery is about as close to hokus pokus as we can get, I think — scribbling numbers and symbols on paper to pinpoint special (perhaps even someday useful) gravitational points of interest. (Also see discovery of Neptune.) Fantastic.
First, you have had to have seen this
https://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo
Also, I thought it interesting that the ESA launches in Guiana is because of its location near the equator. The rockets launched there can steal a little of the Earth’s rotational energy helping it save some fuel.
Stories like Lagrange always make me smile. The use of mathematics as a tool of discovery is about as close to hokus pokus as we can get, I think — scribbling numbers and symbols on paper to pinpoint special (perhaps even someday useful) gravitational points of interest. (Also see discovery of Neptune.) Fantastic.
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