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Huygens Probe Prepares for Saturn Moon Landing
Nathan writes "A probe is about to land on one of Saturn's 35 moons, Titan. The probe is a collaboration with NASA, the European Space Agency and Italy's space program. The probe is apparently about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. This landing should lead scientists toward new information about the atmosphere and the magnetosphere."
Your point is made in a prejudicial and inflammatory manner, so if it's modded down, that'll be why.
However, some of those prejudices do seem to be rooted in reality. The Italian contractor for the radio link between Huygens and Cassini screwed up the design -- badly -- and refused to release full specifications to the US engineers who discovered the problem. The Europeans evidently don't know what the term "team player" means. (And the Americans don't seem to know what "trust but verify" means.)
If this thing works at all, it will be despite of, and not because of, the technical contributions of the European partners.
I wish titan good luck, it's the looser in this deal, it's the one getting violated.
By this time tommarow we will be able to look at more junk tossed at a another thing in space, go us.
Anyone know if the VW beetle unit of measurement that NASA loves is a SI or English unit of measure?
you're a liar and a snotty elitist liar at that. If you "always thought it was a kuiper belt object" then you either never HEARD of Pluto before 1992 (when the Kuiper Belt was discovered), you somehow discovered the Kuiper belt before NASA did (in which case you're an idiot), or you just want to sound smart (in which case you're actually just an idiot). Or maybe you're trying to look "cool" - and even for slashdot, you look like a nerdy idiot (now that's hard to do).