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."

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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 ;)

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.

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...