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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:01:33 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:02:35 AM EDT
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SWEET!!!!
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:03:09 AM EDT
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Good!
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:03:12 AM EDT
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They finally got the thing launched! Now....to wait 9 years....
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:05:23 AM EDT
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*why?
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:06:19 AM EDT
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"It's coming right for us!"
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:08:11 AM EDT
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YEAH! SCREW YOU PLUTO! TAKE THAT YOU LITTLE BITCH!
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:08:53 AM EDT
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the inhabitants of pluto have a few years to figure out how to shoot it down or dodge it
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:14:08 AM EDT
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This revives the age old debate: "Which came first....the planet or the dog?"
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:17:45 AM EDT
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how hard is it to lead a target nine years?
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:27:44 AM EDT
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You know.... slingshot around the moon, slingshot around Jupiter, and then try to hit your target at 50 thousand miles per hour. No Biggie.  |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:34:47 AM EDT
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It was awesome! It was so loud it made the doors shake on the building I work at. The wind blew the sound in our direction.
 Maybe today all the media traffic will get out of the way when the workers here decide to go home. They added at least a half hour to Tuesdays commute.
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:35:14 AM EDT
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Actually, that really is rocket science. The physics involved just blows my mind away..I love it! |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:36:29 AM EDT
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easy you just don't lead them as much.......nine years old...get it? HAHAHA I kill me! 
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Posted: 1/19/2006 10:46:54 AM EDT
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linkee no workee!
oh, wait, no linkee edit: awright - www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20060119-1110-plutomission.html
thats fast, I think it took the astronauts 3 days |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 11:41:34 AM EDT
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Yeah, but that's because if we sent the astronauts to the moon that fast, they'd be headed to Pluto too. If the astronauts went too fast, they wouldn't orbit around the moon -- they'd slingshot past it.
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Posted: 1/19/2006 11:52:25 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:06:24 PM EDT
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I missed it by being in class
 What kind of booster was it on? |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:07:02 PM EDT
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Atlas V |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:09:29 PM EDT
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It was on a
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:13:28 PM EDT
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Correct, Atlas V
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:17:58 PM EDT
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so...what am I gonna get for my money?
-HS |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:21:36 PM EDT
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You gotta pack enough fuel to accellerate and decelerate, too, that's the big issue on these things. You want to be pretty much fuel neutral - have just enough momentum to get their and put yourself in orbit, no big burns. To get there in 9 hours would take a big burn to enter orbit. For more info on this type of thing, look a Buzz Aldrin's (I think) article in Popular science a few months back. He had a very low fuel cost, but very fast, way to get to Mars figured out. Basically put a craft in an orbit that would slingshot around Earth and Mars periodically... All our CEV's would need to do is catch up before the slingshot, and hitch a ride. 
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:24:12 PM EDT
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Because it's there. |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:25:39 PM EDT
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 Knowledge. |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:31:28 PM EDT
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The first data collection mission to the Kuiper Belt. We don't know much about it, other than it's cold, dark, and full of shit. But it should tell us quite a bit about the early composition of the solar system.  Besides, baby steps. Each of these missions has new technology on it, tech that will be useful in future manned and unmanned spaceflight. Sometimes testing that new tech tells us as much as what we learn from the missions. |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:32:08 PM EDT
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Actually, the hard part is to do all that and NOT hit your target, if you know what I mean.... 
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:35:14 PM EDT
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I think we (Boeing) built the upper stage.
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Posted: 1/19/2006 12:37:00 PM EDT
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Thing is if we get that hyperdrive working(we=scientist) we can reach pluto before the damn rocket...LOL wouldnt it be cool to recover the rocket as it reached pluto and studied the results of it being in spacethat long....
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Posted: 1/19/2006 1:03:53 PM EDT
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Compared to women and children, I would say you would have to lead Pluto more.
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Posted: 1/19/2006 1:04:33 PM EDT
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Bastard, ya beat me to it. |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 1:28:26 PM EDT
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Well, the god was invented before either of them, but the dog and the planet were both created/discovered in the same year so it's hard to say which came first. |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 1:40:46 PM EDT
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Further ahead of China in the battlefield of the future (space), knowledge about the origins of our solar system, testing new technology, further improving the ability to perhaps someday knock a big-ass asteroid off its collision path with your house, etc., etc. As an added bonus, every tax dollar spent on the space program is a dollar that won't wind up in a welfare crackhead's pipe. ETA: 
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Posted: 1/19/2006 1:47:27 PM EDT
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There is a very slight chance that within the next ten years we flight test a small unmanned demonstrator for the Heim Quantum inverse mass drive is the expiraments with the Z-Machine at Lawerance Livermore next year verifies things, but no way we'll have that thing human rated for 20 years. |
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Posted: 1/19/2006 1:56:21 PM EDT
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We will build base #3 on Pluto.............All your Solar System are belong to us!!!
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Posted: 1/19/2006 2:02:13 PM EDT
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+1 |
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