stupid job

[xraytheenforcer]

Trying to explain what a Lagrangian point is to lay audience, in a limited amount of space, is a giant pain in my ass.

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[ildrinn]

Ooh! A challenge!

"Five places where a satellite can sit within the Earth's and Moon's gravity and not be pulled out of position by either". Unless that's a bit too lay....

[xraytheenforcer]

Actually, that's pretty good. Although I think that the Earth and Sun's gravitational components trumps that of the Moon.

see this graphic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lagrange_points2.svg

Now just have to tweak the sentence so it's not in the passive voice. :)

[maltaran]

Surely any two-body system has 5 Lagrange points? So there will be Earth-Moon and Earth-Sun Lagrange points.

Will you be mentioning the Trojan asteroids?

[xraytheenforcer]

This story is specifically about the Gaia mission, so no asteroids will be in the illustration. Alas.

[beerdiablo]

P = Beer3

[xraytheenforcer]

hahaha

[blackheart666]

I learned something today.

Now... How can we throw one at France?

[fenryng]

Did the audience at least appreciate the knowledge that you were giving them? Or was this not that type of audience?