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NASA Sending Probe to Saturn
Plissken writes "Nasa along with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency have launched a towards Saturn in hopes of obtaining vital data to help understand the mysterious, vast region. The Cassini-Huygens mission is composed of two elements: The Cassini orbiter that will orbit Saturn and it's moons for four years, and the Huygens probe will dive into the depths of Titan and land on it's surface. If all goes well, more than 200 scientists worldwide will study the data collected."
People that can think about Stellar IP, and assign an IP to the Moon, don't have to be afraid of the /. effect...
They just turn their DNS in such a way that your packets have to go to Saturn, Jupiter, Webhop in a small private Europa-Io-X firewall and then allow you access to 0.0.0.1:0.0.0.255 (Earth)
Hopefully, your lag will only be a couple centuries.
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
I knew /. liked to post old stuff, but its starting to get out of hand
Nasa along with the European Space Agency
;)
ESA Engineer: We need to calibrate the spinoff vector 3 micrometers forward.
NASA Engineer: Micrometers?
ESA Engineer: Yes, metric units.
NASA Engineer: Metric?
A bit over the top perhaps, but it's not like it hasn't happened before
.: Max Romantschuk
I suppose the submitter wanted both karma and attention whoring. Soon we'll see the following story:
New transportation system invented.
Megawhore writes: I seems that researchers have invented a revolutionary new transportation system called wheel which enables people to get around loads without carrying them....
I think this will enable us to transport our MP3 server's around.
Well, that sounds like a good idea, but think about it..... What if information on Saturn were to fall into the hand of terrorists? Releasing the data into the public domain could be a threat to national security, plus, its not like the project was funded by your tax dollars, oh wait...... :P
NASA launched two probes to the outer solar system in the late 1970's: Voyager and Voyager 2. Slashdot is just reporting this amazing story today...
There was a sudden mass extinction of dinosaurs. More on this as it develops.
How long will it take Slashdot to post a dupe of this "story"?
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
...... have launched a towards ....
So now Slashdot wan'ts us to work out what the story is about? What's next - a totally blank story to comment on?
"Nasa along with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency have launched a towards Saturn
A car ?, a piece of fruit ?, a major new military offensive ?. Please don't tell me it's just a boring old probe.
That's where you are wrong my friend. A victory for any one of us is a victory for the entire Anonymous Coward collective.
"Nasa along with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency have launched a towards Saturn"
Goddamn. They're spending our letters like they grow on trees. Sure, today they're just launching 'a', but tomorrow it'll be 'x', and then 't'. I want to know when they're planning on launching'u' and 'i' in to space...
Kevin Fox
ok, so there's the european spaceagency, and then we have the italian spaceagency... what excactly are those guys up to? Interstellar pizzadelivery? Pan solar system opera transmissions?
...people who have absolutely no use for raw data...
I have a use for it, I'd analyse it to death until I have some sort of sequence that matches the dimensions of the Pyramids, preferably also chucking in the orientation of Stonehenge and distance of Easter Island from Atlantis.
Then I'd write a book.
Perhaps I should patent my Business plan first? or is there prior art?
"Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers." - Hobbes
They probe us, We probe them. Its only fair.
OMG! Rearrange the bits in the Swahili spelling of "Stephen Baxter" and you get "Nostradamus"!
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.