A small European satellite began its mission Wednesday to peer into the blinding light of nearby stars in an attempt to discover the first rocky planets outside our solar system.
The craft was launched at 1423 GMT (9:23 a.m. EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket and attached Fregat upper stage successfully deployed the COROT spacecraft into orbit about 50 minutes after liftoff.
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Coast was making fun of this. That's too bad. French science is catching up and may have already surpassed American science. Hydrinos! N-rays! Who is laughing now?
The craft was launched at 1423 GMT (9:23 a.m. EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket and attached Fregat upper stage successfully deployed the COROT spacecraft into orbit about 50 minutes after liftoff.
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Coast was making fun of this. That's too bad. French science is catching up and may have already surpassed American science. Hydrinos! N-rays! Who is laughing now?
You are quite right. For decades, the French have been excellent in the field of optics. They really do good science. American science is still strong, but it is waning comapred to other countries.
French science is still behind American science, even with ITER based in Chadarache (spelling?). Corot is interesting, though. (But it's an ESA project, not only French).
I'm not laughing, you're absolutely correct that the French are involved in cutting-edge research in physics.
The important field of particle physics will take a giant leap forward when the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), on the border between Switzerland and France, becomes operational in November, 2007. The LHC will reach seven times more energy than the most powerful particle accelerator currently in use, thus enabling scientific investigations never before possible. The French will be at the forefront of advanced research in physics for long into the future.