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Spacecraft's billion-pixel camera to spot 10 new planets per day
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| 7/6/11
| Evan Ackerman
Posted on 07/08/2011 2:40:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Passed up by Europeans. Oh, the humility! Thanks, gobs, Zero, you retarded chimp.
To: LibWhacker
The near earth objects should be watched as well IMO. This rock is due IMO.
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posted on
07/08/2011 2:46:56 AM PDT
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allmost
To: LibWhacker
...”it’s estimated that Gaia will detect 15,000 new alien planets.”
Alien planets? There are no “alien” planets. They might be independent of our solar system but that wouldn’t make them alien to the Milky Way or to the universe.
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:04:36 AM PDT
by
equaviator
("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: LibWhacker
10 planets a day?
Only if they all orbit in 0.5 days. One orbit to detect, one to confirm.
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:10:54 AM PDT
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:10:54 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
To: LibWhacker
A billion-pixel camera...
Gonna take a whoppin big SD card for that thing!
Better check the specials at Newegg.. :-)
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:18:35 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
To: Daffynition
Your minkey. Do you have a lee-zance for your minkey?
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:20:41 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Daffynition
Poignant pic. The aliens, if intelligent, would most likely view us as such.
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:22:22 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: allmost
Or they might view us as a hot dog.
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:28:08 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
I've had some good hot dogs, but interstellar travel for one? Hmmm... not yet
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:38:44 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: allmost
Or they might be like chess prodigies- brilliant at one thing (interstellar spaceflight, in this case) and flummoxed by the simplest of things that we find trivial.
We only have one data point upon which to base our estimates.
A hive-minded culture might waste its time looking everywhere for the giant Human grand-ant that controls everything, while thugs in the hood are boosting the hubcaps off of their landing vehicles and rolling them in alley-ways.
Guess we find out when we find out. :-)
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:41:09 AM PDT
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Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
We will find out eventually. Even if it takes forever.
The whole sentient hive mind concept makes my back tense-up a bit. We seem to be working on that here if I am not mistaken.
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:47:42 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: allmost
Too bad we won’t be able to afford the electricity to plug our Ipods in to see the pics...
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:52:40 AM PDT
by
Shady
(Capitalism works for men who do. Socialism works for men who donÂ’t The numbers do not lie.)
To: Riley
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:56:13 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: allmost
Agreed on all points.
I’ll be interested to see what sort of exoplanetary imagery comes out of this camera, though. I hope they take some warm up shots of the Apollo 11 landing site. I’ve seen some low-res ones recently of the various Apollo sites- the A14 site shows an astronaut ‘footpath’ between the lander’s lower stage and the deployed science package.
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posted on
07/08/2011 3:58:42 AM PDT
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Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
I'm interested to see anything right about now. Dems killed everything in 2006 when they took over spending. We are left with 'muslim outreach' as NASA's goal.
The pics will be extraordinary no doubt. A few footprint pics would be pretty cool.
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posted on
07/08/2011 4:13:29 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: Shady
Personal electrical generation is not that hard. You need materials and the will to do it. Expect a few downtimes :).
The grid's juice is what carries your ipod, as well as the info over it. We have the energy.
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07/08/2011 4:31:16 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: allmost
I'm interested to see anything right about now. Dems killed everything in 2006 when they took over spending. We are left with 'muslim outreach' as NASA's goal. There's a sad irony here- in Conservatives being so often sneered at by Libs for being 'intellectually incurious'.
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posted on
07/08/2011 4:31:44 AM PDT
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Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
There's a sad irony here- in Conservatives being so often sneered at by Libs for being 'intellectually incurious'.
Exactly. Beyond irony though I've always thought of the Left's sickness being exclusionary self-obsession and fear of objective consciousness. A Dark Ages kind of thing. We call it Lefego at the Institute.
Johnny Suntrade
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posted on
07/08/2011 4:49:54 AM PDT
by
jnsun
(The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
To: Riley
Most conservative principles are based in reality. Conservatives, as a generalization, are by their nature ‘intellectually curious’.
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07/08/2011 4:53:34 AM PDT
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allmost
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