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May 20

Identifying New York building

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At the extreme bottom left of Manhattan is a round building. Does anyone know what that is (was)? 86.160.221.252 (talk) 01:21, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's Fort Clinton -- what remains is now known as Castle Clinton. Looie496 (talk) 01:37, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thank you! 86.160.221.252 (talk) 01:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

sonic drive-in located in cleveland ms

In what year was the Sonic Drive-in of Cleveland, MS relocated to its current location? In the early 1990's it was located across the street from where it is currently located. What year was the relocation?96.18.113.71 (talk) 16:40, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to try Google News and search only the 1990's, aside from that potentially the county courthouse or the appraisers office may have online access and will give the date of the property transfer or building permits, or you could always stop in the county courthouse for that information.^{Market St.⧏}_{⧐ Diamond Way} 17:15, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Or you could just call the drive-in and ask for the owner. Chances are, they've owned it for quite some time and may even be the same owner that owned it in the previous location. Dismas|^(talk) 00:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Using the historic imaging tool on Google Earth, the current Sonic building is present in the image taken on September 29, 2010. There is a different building on the current Sonic site in the image of June 19, 2007. There are no images between those dates, and it is not possible to tell what the buildings are. However, that may help narrow your search. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 04:01, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sending stuff to space

I'm inquiring about the cost and feasibilty to send something to space (orbit the earth). What costs are involved and what are the practicalities of this? Do they just chuck it out of the capsule? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.17.230.250 (talk) 22:46, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Have you checked out wikipedia's article on Space debris? If you search the article for "cost" it will become apparent that "the practicalities" of this for any non-essential reason takes a huge toll on both manned and unmanned missions there. If you're asking about essential reasons Satellite may help but cost and if it is simply launched or carried into orbital space really varies greatly on what exactly it is.^{Market St.⧏}_{⧐ Diamond Way} 23:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And check out this too. Bus stop (talk) 23:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For small satellites see Miniaturized satellite and search the web for nanosatellite and picosatellite. There are companies that offer soda can sized satellite kits and launches for some thousands of dollars - though AFAIK few if any of them have delivered to orbit yet. They launch a bunch of them together and release them upon reaching orbit. As to space debris, the orbits of picosatellites decay in a couple of weeks and they burn up on re-entry. 88.112.41.6 (talk) 10:52, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly it's fuel and space (no pun intended) considerations. NPR says it cost $10,000 to get 1 lbs into space on the space shuttle. ([1]). Shadowjams (talk) 19:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes small satellites can be launched fairly cheaply as balance weight or ballast in larger satellite launches. Schools and colleges often get their ride to orbit that way. SteveBaker (talk) 02:09, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Depends what your "something" is, I'd guess. If it's a functional satellite, there would likely be extra costs to deploy it in just the right way at just the right place. If it's something you just need to get way off your hands, better to rent a helicopter and drop it in a volcano (or ocean, if it's clean enough), for cost, privacy and space debris reasons. InedibleHulk (talk) 11:34, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]