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Cassini Probe Has Camera Problems
xX_sticky_Xx writes "The BBC is reporting that the last billion dollar NASA probe, Cassini, (enroute to Saturn) is suffering from an unknown source of contamination on its narrow field camera. NASA has attempted to alleviate the contamination, which is causing a haze to appear around images, by "defrosting" it, with so far limited success. Another attempt will be made in January. If this problem can't be resolved this will be extremely disappointing. Cassini is set to expand our knowledge of Saturn more than Galileo did for Jupiter."
first post!
They should have used a Beowulf cluster.
Thank you.
Everybody knows that gunk sticks to the metric system. Just look at Europe.
Your strange man. Go see a shrink!
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred three months ago, and now we're involved in a WAR and you people have the gall to be discussing that the last billion dollar NASA probe, Cassini, is suffering from an unknown source of contamination on its narrow field camera???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn that the last billion dollar NASA probe, Cassini, is suffering from an unknown source of contamination on its narrow field camera, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!
You people disgust me!
Great. Now the bracketed information [yahoo.com] is both annoying and inaccurate.
Nowadays on slashdot when you see [yahoo.com] it might as well say [goatse.cx]...
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Lets see you send sometihng that size into space, let alone have it actually work at all. If it was actually easy, it would be done.
Mod point free since 2001
They should have used a bunch of those disposable cameras. They work great!
From ABCNews.com:
The goatse.cx man, undergoing treatment for an enlarged anus, is having complications with his current proceedure. During insertion of the anal probe, video was lost to the Internet webcam monitoring the operation. A spokesperson from the American proctologist association was quoted as saying "Of course it can't see! It's covered in shit!." The goatse.cx man was unavailable for comment.
Your link is bad! Try this.
OH MY FUCKING GOD
BIN LADEN HAS BEEN FUCKING KILLED !!!
According to the article, US Special Forces raided his cave, he resisted and was SHOT IN THE HEAD !
Yahoo! News is the only article I could find at the time I heard, so I am linking to that.
This is crazy, they are holding a press conference at the Pentagon saying they have evidence of activity by al Qaeda about possible retaliation using biological weapons !!!
http://rd.yahoo.com/M=breaking_news/h/ap/20011215
Looks like the Martians are making good on their threats!
Click here to learn more!
Our boys are running around like headless chickens as we speak.
I get inches and centimeters confused when I describe my member to the ladies.
...is that you have time to cancel stupid pictures before they are fully visible.
(I should have taken -1 at face value.)
I hope goat-dude hasn't hacked into Cassini. Imagine the expressions at the control room when Cassina sends one of those.
Actually, if you had an antenna big enuf (or hacked into one big enuf), hacking Cassini is perhaps relatively easy because they have not had that problem yet and thus skipped protection. Does Cassini require a password?
Table-ized A.I.
It's Window had a hole or a leak
Table-ized A.I.
lol /. will be dead when you leave.
A conversation between trolls is a lot more interesting than the f*cking topics.
I'm sure
it's an alien life form censoring the images just like cnn