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The Best Of Planetary Explorers
An anonymous reader writes "NASA's timeline is published today on the top seventy five events in recent planetary explorations. Since June and July inaugurates three new landers going to Mars, it is curious to see their selected images: Venusian crust hot enough to melt lead, comets colliding with Jupiter, Europa's frozen ocean. But the most precious discoveries may be those chalked up as nearly free riders: the fifteen Mars rocks that annually are found among Antarctic meteors [100 grams total] and all those four and half million personal computers doing SETI@home CPU cycles."
Teaching everybody the metric system and getting them all to USE IT AT THE SAME TIME!
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Dr. Smith from Lost in Space, of course.
Everybody knows that.
As if the universe had something bad to eat the night before, we get a moon named PUCK circling Uranus.
Don't use the Troll mod just because you disagree with me.
I'm still waiting for a new planet to be added to our solar system. Hell, it's been a hundred odd years since the last one was found and some people are finding that one to be faulty? Come on people! NOTHING should take a century between updates!
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*opening star trek music plays*
Space-- the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission--
to explore strange new worlds...to seek out new life and new civilizations...to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Captain's Log, Stardate 2948.5.
Starship Enterprise remains stranded on the moon. We have been through a trying time. As per Starbase 11's orders, we have intentionally crashed the Enterprise into the moon, in hopes of allowing scientists on earth to observe an ejected spray of lunar ice. Our next mission is to boldly fly a balloon in the clouds of Venus.
Mr. Spock: I must say, Captain, the human mind is infinitely illogical. I am amazed at it's unconventional approach to science.*superior smile*
Dr. McCoy: Was that a smile Mr. Spock? I must say that was a definite display of human emotion.
*spock raises suspicious eyebrow*
Coming up next week: The crew of the Starship Enterprise tries to seek out new life and new civilizations by launching the SETI@HOME project.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Probably off topic, so Mod me as you will,
However, there is a great picture on the
Astronomy Picture of the Day that looks like its flipping you off.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
lol, why the guy doesn't write a book instead of selling a movie is my big hang up ;)
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Absolutely. Why not? You could use it as a propelant. Shoot in one direction, and you'd go in the other. If anybody on the ship starts acting strange (a la, Michael Beihn in The Abyss) shoot them and dump their body on Mars. If it's still there in 6 months, then you know there aren't any carnivorous animals runnin around.
"It's better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it." ~ Christian Slater, True Romance
Because all know that it will return with some really advanced technology from a race of robots.