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NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
Associated Press (science) ^
| 05/23/13
| ALICIA CHANG
Posted on 05/23/2013 1:16:28 PM PDT by oxcart
Edited on 05/23/2013 1:17:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP)
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: asteroids; catastrophism; impact; nasa; space
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:16:28 PM PDT
by
oxcart
To: oxcart
Nothing say space inspiration like asteroid lasso.
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:19:34 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
To: oxcart
What could possibly go wrong?...........
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:21:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: oxcart
NASA is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid as a stepping stone to Mars. How come Sweet Home Al" Obama knows all about space and asteroids and stuff but he doesn't know about year-old IRS attack plans until he hears it on da nooz?
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:21:04 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: oxcart
NASA needs to lasso Mecca and Qom.
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:25:19 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: oxcart
The next great mission. We landed on the moon over 40 years ago and now we're going to an asteroid.
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:25:20 PM PDT
by
eggman
(End the Obama occupation of the White House!)
To: oxcart
A Zimbabwean space mission?
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:28:03 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
Are asteroids made out of other stuff than everything else is mad of?
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:29:03 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: eggman
They told Muslims about a mission to an “asteroid” and a lot of them volunteered because they thought they were talking about hemorrhoids.
To: oxcart
Oh, please.
How about we lasso illegals jumping our borders and terrorists trying to blow up our cities instead?
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:31:27 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
To: oxcart
I thought NASA was in charge of Moslem outreach now?
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:32:41 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: oxcart
Call George Bailey.
He has a background for this type of undertaking.
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:34:19 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: oxcart
That's just....
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:35:52 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
To: oxcart
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:38:29 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
To: dsrtsage
“Are asteroids made out of other stuff than everything else is mad of?”
The main thing is that the stuff is “up there” already. Some of it could be useful for large space missions. That could save a lot of money.
To: dsrtsage
Yes - Green Cheese ..........
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posted on
05/23/2013 1:55:04 PM PDT
by
njslim
(St)
To: oxcart
There is a very good reason to investigate asteroids: because some of them are loaded with extremely valuable metals. One in particular, a Manhattan sized rock called 433 Eros, is believed to contain more platinum group metals than the entire crust of Earth.
Importantly, it is not a case of these metals being very expensive, but of being able to get them in quantity at any price.
To: dsrtsage
Yes, asteroids are made up of universal chemical building blocks. For example some are iron, some are Hydrogen Cyanide ice.
Would be bad to lasso the wrong one, specially bad if it crashed. The iron ones would leave a big hole, the cyuranic acid types would poison the planet.
But only for oxygen breathers...
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posted on
05/23/2013 2:44:54 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: oxcart
This article is racist. Where are the Muslims involved?
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posted on
05/23/2013 2:58:13 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(Q: The worst president in US history?)
To: oxcart
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posted on
05/23/2013 4:20:06 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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