Shwag

[BuzzEvil]

Best Buy sent me to Vancouver for a new product seminar yesterday. I dont think i have ever travelled half way across the country for business for only one day before. I regret that i didnt get a chance to look around cuz Vancouver is very beautiful. (remember Wistler Rahl?)
But i did get some cool swag. I got one XM radio and one Serius Satellite radio for free - both with 6 months prepaid activation. Woot!. That is worth over 600 bucks. I expected the T-shirts and keychains but not two digital satellite radios with car kits and activation. Mmmmm shwaaaaag....

[LuckYx]

Satelite radios don't work too well in AK.

[BuzzEvil]

They work just fine in Arkansas its just the ppl using them that is the problem. :P

I dont know how you guys came up with the acronyms for the states cuz it always seemed to me that in some cases the two letters could possibly represent 3 or 4 different states.

Funny thing about the sat radios is that i do not listen to the FM radio and thereby cannot see myself having a use for the sat versions. I am gonna give one away to my bother Darc. The other I will prolly sell.

You are right lucky. Alaska is too far north, but if your states population climed to over 30 million then i think it would be lucrative for a sat company to set up a few sats in a geosynchronis orbit.

[rev]

You are right lucky. Alaska is too far north, but if your states population climed to over 30 million then i think it would be lucrative for a sat company to set up a few sats in a geosynchronis orbit.

Come on, the pop of Canada is estimated to be barely over 35 mil... bunch of a wannabe, liberal, hockey-playing americans. :)

[BuzzEvil]

Well.. you got hockeyplaying right at least. We were liberal last year, now we are conservative.
Wannabes??? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. There is nothing better than being a Canadian. We reap ther rewards of living next to one of the most powerful economies on the planet and yet get to travel without ppl hating us and spitting in our soup. :P

[LuckYx]

I never order soup.

[EVILKANE47]

and *I* shake the h8ters off no matter where they come from :P

[rev]

Well.. you got hockeyplaying right at least. We were liberal last year, now we are conservative.
Wannabes??? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. There is nothing better than being a Canadian. We reap ther rewards of living next to one of the most powerful economies on the planet and yet get to travel without ppl hating us and spitting in our soup. :P

You don't know what you are talking abooot.

[wolfdragon]

You are right lucky. Alaska is too far north, but if your states population climed to over 30 million then i think it would be lucrative for a sat company to set up a few sats in a geosynchronis orbit.

Geosynchronous orbits are equatorial (object must have orbit point of origin same as the body it is orbiting - therefore staying synchronous con only occur at equator)

to do satellite over Alaska... you would have to have a few of them flying in "formation" going from alaska toward the bottom of Africa and then of course back around the other side of the world

space them out so that at any given time one is looking at Alaska, would take about 5 or so satellites, thats why they dont service alaska... too few people for 5+ satellites

yes i knwo the orbital mechanics are probably a bit off but i did that one off the top of my head bc i didnt want to break out that particular textbook

[BuzzEvil]

I wasnt talking Geostationary. Our Geosynchonous sats here in Canada do a figure 8 in order to cover all of the populated areas. Their orbits loop up and down from the far north to as far south as the equator.
this web page shows the travel path of the geosynchronous orbit:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_entertainment.html

[rev]

I wasnt talking Geostationary. Our Geosynchonous sats here in Canada do a figure 8 in order to cover all of the populated areas. Their orbits loop up and down from the far north to as far south as the equator.
this web page shows the travel path of the geosynchronous orbit:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_entertainment.html

Yeah, but ppl in canada have the ability to actually operate a modern-day TV, where as most alaskans are still mesmerized with gravel roads.

[LuckYx]

I wasnt talking Geostationary. Our Geosynchonous sats here in Canada do a figure 8 in order to cover all of the populated areas. Their orbits loop up and down from the far north to as far south as the equator.
this web page shows the travel path of the geosynchronous orbit:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_entertainment.html

Yeah, but ppl in canada have the ability to actually operate a modern-day TV, where as most alaskans are still mesmerized with gravel roads.


You don't know what you are talking about.

[Drizzcat]

lol

Where in the name of Bast do you work that Swag is Satillite Radio Receivers?

[BuzzEvil]

Best Buy.

[Drizzcat]

O.o

It all makes More sense when I see where you are From.

[wolfdragon]

I wasnt talking Geostationary. Our Geosynchonous sats here in Canada do a figure 8 in order to cover all of the populated areas. Their orbits loop up and down from the far north to as far south as the equator.
this web page shows the travel path of the geosynchronous orbit:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_entertainment.html

still requires several satellites flying in formation

didnt try to explain that type of orbit bc its a very weird one, kinda like the clover leaf orbit some of the spy satellites do

ok no more orbiting bodies talk

[Ooooooops]

Wonderful picture...Kane.

[EVILKANE47]

lol. damn! lost a bet. noticed and commented on in... <2 hours.