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Genesis: Data in good condition
Oxidation writes "Space.com is reporting that the Genesis satellite crash isn't as bad as it appeared to be in the first place. Furthermore, a prime particle-gathering device "appears intact" states Don Sevilla. (Genesis payload recovery leader at NASA's JPL)"
Still... Old... Friend. You've managed to kill just about everyone else. But like a poor marksman you keep missing the target.
And here Khan thought he left my probe as I left him!
;-)
Buried alive,
Buried alive,
Buried aliiiivvveee...
KHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!
(So I'm feeling a bit cheeky today. So sue me. No, I'm not worth anything.)
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They just saved a ton of money on their car insurance...
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I can just see some bureaucrat using this as proof to cut funding from the space program. No need to invest in landing gear, just let it crash. :) But seriously that's a testimate to how well they build and designed it.
And to think I freaked out when I dropped my bookbag with my laptop inside it. They should have used something better than a parachute.
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Man, and I thought this accident was going to turn the project to dust. Oh wait.
After studying preliminary data from the recovered probe, scientists are reporting that the Sun seems to have originated in the Utah desert.
"We're finding embedded silicon dioxide particles that are unique to Utah."
The first thing I thought of while watching that video:
"You're the ones who come up with this shit! Why, I bet you have a bunch of guys sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up, and somebody backing them up. What's your contingency plan?"
And then I went, "eww," and had to look away..
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"There she is! Not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better."
Anything to get Phil Collins away from the microphone and strictly in charge of drums.
Oh,the other Genesis...
If you think
"Sevilla said experts are 'peeling back the layers of the onion,' using a flashlight and a small mirror on a stick to explore inside the fractured, garbage-can-sized capsule."
A flashlight and a small mirror on a stick...only cutting edge technology will do for NASA...
... and they attempt to catch it with a hook and a stick!?
This is not a fairground, and you are not trying to catch plastic fish from a pond in exchange for a giant teddy-bear.
On an AP article, the headline read "Sun atoms may be intact after crash". And I thought the only way to split an atom was to bombard it with neutrons. Makes sense now why the conduct nuclear explosion tests deep underground.
From the recovery, from another poster: http://www.genesismission.org/images/gen_recovery_ fragments-browse.jpg
interesting... they appear to have collected shards of a large, shiny black object...
(queue the trumpet)
My god, it's full of sand!
stuff |
(looks through microscope and sorts through particles with tweezers)
Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Solar!, Utah, Utah, Utah......
-Randy
Well, if they were not contaminated already, taking them with a pinch of salt would do the trick....
1 Probe $280 Million Dollars 2 Stunt Helicopters $30 Million Dollars Watching a 280 million dollar probe crash at 200 MPH.... PRICELESS Money cant buy everything, but i bet this time it bought the lowest bidder :-)
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Khan "Then you will transfer all data pertaining the project named..Genesis"
Kirk "Genesis? What's that?"
Khan "Don't insult my intelligence Kirk"
Kirk "Im not, the enterprise "SuperComputer," is working busily to find money-saving deals for you. You can even name your own price for this 'Genesis' "
Khan "Damn, I payed too much for staying at Ceti Alpha V"
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Four days until Darl claims that SCO owns Java.
Maybe they learned their lesson from the space pen?
During the space race back in the 1960's, NASA was faced with a major problem. The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space. NASA went to work. At a cost of $1.5 million they developed the "Astronaut Pen". Some of you may remember. It enjoyed minor success on the commercial market.
The Russians were faced with the same dilemma.
They used a pencil.
(However, this space pen story is a fake. Snopes.com for more detail.)
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Well, the body of Genesis appears to be rather soundly built. Of course, the parachute that was designed to slow it down was not soundly built. When you think of it that way, your statement can be interpreted this way:
"Hey, that's a well-built car! Except for the friggin' brakes!"
I remember back in grade 7 we had to devise a system that would protect an egg from a fall from the roof of the school. I think we used foam and rubber bands... or something.
Anyway, the guys that built this probe probably kicked ass on that exercise...
Not to be too tinfoil hatted here but how can we believe anything they are saying?
Who is going to verify their findings? What if this is all just some smoke and mirror news stories now so we all thing "yea they'll get something for the $260 million spent" only to never ever hear about it again.
Before the thing even entered the atmosphere we had JPLers saying ANY crash would destroy the experiments. Well we got 200+ mph into the earth, split open, dust everywhere, broken little bits but everything is going to be A OK.
Huh?
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Of course not. That's a $26,000 triple-autoclaved, platinum-coated, Swiss optic mirror, affixed to a $43,424 surgical steel stick, made to NASA's exacting specifications down to the micrometer. The 3M company launched a whole new division to create the special cellphane tape (release strength 3.434 KPa +/- .002 KPa), $113,285 per yard (but they only used about six inches; the rest is being used to tape the fragments together).
NASA also announced today that Michael Ryschkewitsch ... would lead the Genesis Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) in an effort to determine the exact cause of the disaster.
MIB is investigating? This must be a crashed space ship, the whole Genesis project is just a big cover story. Thank you, Neurilizer.
First reaction: Over-engineered solution. Why use a multi-thousand dollar miniaturized camera when a $2 mirror on a stick can accomplish the same task?
Second reaction: Who am I to talk about over-engineering? After all, I spend my weekends geocaching, which is best summed up by this quote:
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Homer: It's just a little dirty. It's still good, it's still good!
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The worse case scenerio is that we can only detect particles that are unique to the study area.
:-)
I guess you didn't see (or read) "The Andromeda Strain."
Just kidding, of course.
And just hope that the next failure isn't in the reentry calculations.
... yeah, ok, you might bullseye a gopher.
Because lawn dart in the middle of a Utah testing ground
A lawn dart in the middle of Salt Lake city would be a hell of a thing to list on the morning traffic reports. "Aaaand on route-92 we've got all lanes blocked, after NASA's newest probe bulls-eyed a Silverado. Damage should be cleared out in the next two hours, but it'll take a week to get rid of all the idiot tourists. Suggest you take a different route."
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For some reason, one of the datasets retrieved from the device is a human finger. Upon closer inspection, it appears to match other fingers collected from the Hollywood region of the southwestern coastal United States.
NASA can offer no conclusions at this time, but one NASA insider has speculated that this may indicate that California may, at one time, supported life.
-- clvrmnky
While I understand (I think) why its necessary, it still seems kinda funny that they'd be doing the whole clean-room proceedure after pulling the thing out of a pile of dirt.
I'll refrain from making a really bad Wrath of Kahn joke now.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
But is the Clod of dirt insensitive?
Back in my chem student days, one of my professors had a poster on his office door offering translations of phrases found in technical papers. My favorite pair were:
Pure: We only dropped a little on the floor.
Extremely pure: We didn't drop any on the floor.
NASA has now added this:
Adequately pure: We slammed it into the Utah desert floor, but at less than 200 miles per hour so it's probably okay.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
wiping off candy he dropped in the dirt, saying "it's still good..." with just a hint of doubt in his voice.
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
Future scientific analysis will show that the matter of our solar system is made out of a sandy substance that comes from a region of space called yootah. It is everywhere and permeates everything as we know it.
This also has lead to new techniques at Nasa that will allow them to rescue expensive space missions with a pair of tweezers.
All in all, I'd call it a good day.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
We slammed it into the Utah desert floor, but at less than 200 miles per hour so it's probably okay.
Actually they tried to hit SCO but missed.