NASA readies probe to touch the sun with 'cutting-edge heat shield'

www.cnet.com ^ | July 5, 2018 10:04 PM PDT | by Jackson Ryan

[The_Media_never_lie]

Great ball of fire!

[Oscar in Batangas]

Please don’t send me the bill for the air conditioning

[halfright]

They’d go at night :D

[Ancesthntr]

1. For the first time in human history, we are going to “touch the sun”.

2. The probe’s mission will take it within 4 million miles of the sun....

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Well, which is it, touch the Sun or not?

Either way, glad I’m not going.

[Chode]

thank you...

[Old Yeller]

Heat shield...pffft. They just need to plan it so they go at night...

Izzat you Hank Johnson?

[ro_dreaming]

Getting that close to what is, essentially, a giant ball of fire requires some significant enhancements.

Huh, I wonder if they realize that climate change is out of mankind’s control, that is is, essentially, controlled by a giant ball of fire.

[sportutegrl]

With this cutting edge heat shield we no longer have to worry about global warming.

[MisterArtery]

I worked for a NASA contractor during the Apollo program. I, at a young age, was amazed and apalled by the ignorance of the government employees in charge.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

My late uncle worked for MITRE Corp in those days. He said NASA had some smart guys but nobody wanted to share info so they messed up some things! Big egos!

[Libloather]

Why not try some AC? Window unit.

[PIF]

Getting that close to what is, essentially, a giant ball of super heated plasma - there is no ‘fire’ on the sun. Saying there is fire on the sun is like saying that the Antarctic is covered with water.

[elbook]

meaning it will last a whole half second before being incinerated.

even so they might learn that the sun is mighty hot.

will be interesting to see how they transmit anything through the solar interference

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

They’ll use a wire . . .