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NASA's Choice: Visit Ancient Comet -- Or Saturn Moon?
Forbes ^
| 12/20/17
| Bill Retherford ,
Posted on 12/26/2017 12:46:44 PM PST by Simon Green
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I vote Dragonfly.
To: Simon Green
Comets.....lunch trucks of the universe.
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:49:41 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Simon Green
Why can’t they do both?...................
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:50:09 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Simon Green
As neat as both of these are, I’d really prefer that they focus on Europa.
Of course, landing on Europa does run the risk of incurring the wrath of certain large, black monoliths...
To: Red Badger
Only one rocket available for this mission, so only one project gets the nod.
To: Simon Green
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:52:11 PM PST
by
Nateman
(The louder the left screams , the better it is for America!)
To: Simon Green
I thought all Comets were ancient
To: Simon Green
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:52:54 PM PST
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
To: Little Pig
There is an independent SciFi film on a manned mission to Europa called “Europa Report”. It’s quite good!
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:54:03 PM PST
by
Reily
To: Red Badger
Why cant they do both?Agreed. From your fingers to DJT's eyes.
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:55:19 PM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
To: Little Pig
A comet mission should be an international cooperation, pool their resources and get ‘er done!.............
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:55:25 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Reily
Yea that was a pretty good flick.
Might still be on Netflix streaming service..
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:56:49 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: Simon Green
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posted on
12/26/2017 12:58:34 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Simon Green
There should no missions to land on comets until NASA comes to the reality that their dirty snowball ice rock comet carrying the primordial soup of life to earth has yet to show any evidence .. Every flyby has shown comets to be burnt dry rocks , with tails of electric plasma ... it would be waist money to send a lander on a comet outfitted to land with the purpose sample ice which wont be there.
https://youtu.be/n_ZX6LReaMw
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:01:38 PM PST
by
seastay
To: Simon Green
Titan please! Those methane oceans, lakes, rivers etc. are fascinating.
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:01:46 PM PST
by
Lent
To: Simon Green
For that amount of money, they should just go for the whole
Enceladus
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:10:43 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Boxing Day BUMP)
To: Simon Green
Steve Squyres, the projects lead investigator.
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What ever is found, the public will learn little - the usual Steve Squyres M.O.
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:15:27 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Little Pig
Instead of Europa, compromise on Enceladus - the non-round moon with the extreme retrograde orbit and the 12-mile high wall running completely around the equator ...
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:18:43 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Reily
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:22:16 PM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: Simon Green
Made a name error - Iapetus is the moon I was thinking about - Enceladus was an error.
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posted on
12/26/2017 1:22:23 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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