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."

Comments

It won't...

[da5idnetlimit.com]

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.

Ugh, this is 6 1/2 years old

[Crazieeman]

I knew /. liked to post old stuff, but its starting to get out of hand

Measurements....

[Max Romantschuk]

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 ;)

Re:Measurements....

[Max Romantschuk]

This has been beaten to death already. Can we get over the stupid metric jokes? And if your going to do them, can you at least get them RIGHT?

I'm sorry if the joke offends you, but it was meant as a joke, not an I-point-out-stupid-Americans exercise.

Re:Measurements....

[stoborrobots]

IIRC, the Fuckup was that Lockheed HAD used metric measurements, but NASA "corrected" the metric coordinates into the imperial ones before sending them...

So NASA bad, LM good... or something like that...

Old stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

This mission started several years ago.
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.

In other news...

[BTWR]

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...

Late breaking news!

[Crazieeman]

There was a sudden mass extinction of dinosaurs. More on this as it develops.

launched a what ?

[EpsCylonB]

"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.

We only have 25 left now, right?

[KFury]

"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...

italian spaceagency!

[skipperkongen]

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?

Re:The bets are on...

[aiabx]

Everyone whined when the transit of Mercury was posted after the fact. This time, the editors are ahead of the curve. This is what the people wanted!
-aiabx

Re:Ever read Titan by Stephen Baxter?

[Muad'Dave]

OMG! Rearrange the bits in the Swahili spelling of "Stephen Baxter" and you get "Nostradamus"!