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Europe Heads for the Moon in July
Orlando writes "The BBC are reporting that Arianespace are all set for sending Smart1 to the Moon in July. The mission's primary objectives are testing planetary exploration technologies. This is particularly good news after the recent Arianne rocket explosion." China's also planning a moon mission. The U.S. is planning to sit around and watch.
Imagine that...a continent irrelevent for centuries still trying to hold on to the last vestiges of their dignity...
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Let's all chip in five bucks and buy Mr. Chirac a ticket.... With any luck (and given their success making successful launches), we'll get to see fireworks!!
No, of course not, single neurons can only cope with one task at a time. you need multicellular neural networks inside your head before you can even entertain the idea of multitasking. Dumb f*cking american.
"after WWII, Europeans didn't really care about anybody proving superiority to anyone anymore, they just wanted to live in peace and prosperity"
behind the u.s shield.
sometimes i think a lot of slashdot'ers would have liked to live under Soviet rule.
Ok, fine. I like my women like I like my coffee - sweet, with a lot of milk.
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Yep, it's ignorance alright. ;-)
The European Flag for you enjoyment. For those watching in black and white, it's a blue flag with a ring of 12 gold stars.
Now, I'm going to take a guess that there is a high chance you don't know what the Iraqi flag looks like. In fact, very few Americans seem to know what the Iraqi flag looks like, yet they will bomb the country anyway... I wonder if this is how America always manages to bomb it's allies when they go to war.
M0571y H@rml355.
ah geez, thanks for the " ;-) " or the stupid 'americans' wouldn't know you're trying to cleverly insult them at the same time with some ignorant generalizations of your own. Take a walk.
why run from Vincenzo?
"masterbating" ?
Is that you GW ?
To push this vehicle for 1 hour at 1g, it would need an initial propellant load of 2245kg, and an initial power input of 477MW. For 2 hours, it would need 9531kg of propellant and 1.54GW initial input power. of course, after 1 hour at 1g, you'd be going 20% speed of light. After 2 hours, 85%.