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NASA Spacecraft Has Shields UP
Science Daily ^
| 1-2-2004
| NASA
Posted on 01/02/2004 8:57:06 AM PST by blam
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posted on
01/02/2004 8:57:07 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
neat!
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:02:37 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: blam; RadioAstronomer; Sabertooth; petuniasevan
space ping
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:03:49 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: blam
Whatever happened to the Beagle lander on mars?
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:04:27 AM PST
by
The Raven
To: blam
Bump
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:04:43 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: KantianBurke
Scotty, you've got to give me all the power you've got. We're going in.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:05:40 AM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Woof!)
To: blam
Nowadays, I think they have to "polarize" the shields. Always brought the mental picture of a giant pair of Foster Grants to mind ...
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:06:56 AM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Dimension Zero)
To: blam
To: blam
"...which means at any time we could run into a cometary particle. At 6.1 kilometers per second (approximately 3.8 miles per second), this is no small event." That's a mere 13,645 mi / hour, or 20,013 ft / sec
Around 10-20 times as fast as a rifle bullet.
So if it hits anything larger than a speck of dust...
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:08:06 AM PST
by
Ichneumon
To: The Raven
Whatever happened to the Beagle lander on mars?Shot down by Barsoom Defense Forces.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:08:29 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Having achieved Nibbana, what can I do next?)
To: blam
Absolutely, positively, mind-bogglingly incredible!
It's difficult to imagine anything other than a free society being willing and able to achieve this incredible level of sophistication.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:09:36 AM PST
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops.)
To: The Raven
"Whatever happened to the Beagle lander on mars?" Nothing heard from it yet.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:18:19 AM PST
by
blam
To: The Raven
Whatever happened to the Beagle lander on mars?
The Martian Society for the Prevention of Contamination from Asteriods (MSPCA) sent Beagle to the pound.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:21:01 AM PST
by
Jonah Hex
(If repetition wasn't a good thing, why would people get married?)
To: blam
After the pass today it should loop around and return to earth, should arrive near the end of Pres Bush's second term.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:21:15 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: blam
Mr. Whipple puts one of his shields to the test:
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:24:28 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(immanentizing the eschaton)
To: blam
They're going to bring the comet poop back to earth? Should be some good novels come out of that concept.
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:25:43 AM PST
by
gitmo
(Who is John Galt?)
To: The Raven
Whatever happened to the Beagle lander on mars? They finally received a short transmission: "Send more probes. They're delicious."
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:30:57 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: gitmo
I'm reminded of the movie "Andromeda Strain". I and doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling of the possibility, however highly unlikely, of some foreign pathogens spilling out into our atmoshpere. Damn Sam test the stuff in the ISS Lab.
To: blam
So it has already traveled 2.3 billion miles and then will return to Earth having traveled 4.6 billion miles? I know, the return trip may well be significantly shorter (or longer) but for a round trip endeavor, that has to blow away all previous records. Does anyone know what the previous record is? One of the Apollo missions, maybe. Did we ever bring anything back from Mars or Venus orbit?
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:40:29 AM PST
by
realpatriot
(Leaving the tagline unchanged for now)
To: blam
Stardust with Shields Up
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posted on
01/02/2004 9:40:59 AM PST
by
gitmo
(Who is John Galt?)
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