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Nuclear Powered Mission to Jovian Moons

Posted by michael on from the need-more-power dept.

Skyshadow writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about NASA's new project, the JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter). The probe is designed specifically to search for liquid water and signs of life on Europa, as well as making detailed observations of Callisto and Ganymede. Planned for a 2010 liftoff, this new probe makes all previous interplanetary probes look wussy: it'll be 300 feet long and powered by a next-gen fission reactor (as opposed to nuclear batteries). Sure beats blowing money circling the earth over and over again..."

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  1. mount command by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    mount /dev/nuclearmission0 ../yourass

  2. I dunno about you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    but all my Cowboy Bebop fantasies include Faye Valentine. That's one toon I'd fuck.

  3. What's 300 feet long... by MagFox · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...takes seven years to get up, and is going to probe where no man has probed before?

    A damn sexxeh probe.

  4. US military's plan on alien invasion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is kind of strange that the US military actually does have an official plan on how to deal with hostile alien contact or alien "berserker" technology.