Bob Balaban was there? ;')
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I figured the press conference would be regarding the previously unseen Brown Dwarf star that has the far flung ecliptical orbit beyond Pluto that passes through our inner solar system once every 200 million years or so.
Next appearance will be in 2012. They won’t expect it to hit us, but it will come close enough to possibly strip away our atmosphere or cause some other such Catastrophism. ;^p
Stay tuned.....
Please let them show something. If this is just a ‘statement pose’ directed from the one in office it will eternally cripple NASA. I don’t want NASA crippled.
It could be something like that, and I sincerely hope so. X-ray astronomy, apart from the whole Halton Arp thing, is about as interesting to me as X-ray Spex. There was a non-discovery of a dark companion of the Sun, it probably still pops up on “Nibiru” webpages and forum postings.
http://www.google.com/search?q=IRAS+satellite+dark+companion
other planet x stuff:
http://nineplanets.org/hypo.html#planetx
http://nineplanets.org/hypo.html#nemesis
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kuiper+Cliff
It could be something like that, and I sincerely hope so.Wow, whoops, just to clarify, I don't want our atmosphere stripped away. I just meant, I'd like it to be something in our Solar System.
more dark companion stuff:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2470132/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2475139/posts?page=49#49
Can you add me to the string theory ping list?
Obama’s already seen to that, but he won’t last. NASA has been parked in orbit for nearly 30 years, insofar as human spaceflight is concerned, but as much of a waste of time that has been, it has kept NASA alive for whatever the next big leap will be. Zero wants missions to asteroids, and the various intercepts of comets and whatnot have been in the way of practice for such missions. IOW, I think it will take more than a bum press conference to cripple NASA. OTOH, we probably all remember that truth-based scene in “The Right Stuff” where the NASA suit sez he’d been told by the media that they’d made going to the Moon as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh.
Human trips to other bodies are ultimately limited by the chemical propulsion systems we use, and by the selection of available bodies. Humans could land on and explore Mercury, Mars, the moons of Mars, Ceres and the other large spheroid asteroids, and some of the moons of the gas giants. Venus, and the four gas giants, can’t have visitors.
Any kind of human spaceflight to anywhere will require a big-assed booster. Strapping three of the SRBs from the STS can reproduce the Saturn V. Von Braun calculated that a single round-trip for astronauts to Mars and back would require the equivalent of twelve Saturn V launches.
There have been 119 Space Shuttle launches, that’s 238 SRB launches. Divide by three, that’s 79 Saturn V launches, or six Mars trips — give or take reusing the interplanetary craft of course, and other components of the voyage.
Damn. ;’)
A colony of over qualified people are willing to go.
A one-way trip has been talked about for a while (at least as long ago as Zubrin’s book), but trying to build a new life on Mars would not be pretty, to say the least. Without supply ships coming in a steady stream (iow, having to rely on the US Congress), it would be nasty, brutish, and short.
Wha.. NASA named a satellite after that girl that congressman killed?
Weird.
It’s the announcement of the discovery of a freakin’ black hole. Alleged black hole that is. :’)
B - O - R - I - N - G . What a letdown.
WOOP WOOP.
Now if they’d just make one where a certain black stone is.
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