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NASA Stardust Returns to Earth
quadsoft writes "The Globe and Mail reports "Dugway Proving Ground, Utah -- A space capsule ferrying the first comet dust samples to Earth parachuted onto a remote stretch of desert before dawn Sunday, drawing cheers from elated scientists.
The touchdown capped a seven-year journey by NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which zipped past a comet in 2004 to capture minute dust particles and store them in the capsule.""
This is a truly impressive mission. Fire and forget is one thing but bringing back pieces of a comet is... in my opinion, right up there with the moon missions.
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All contact has been lost with the residents of the town of Piedmont, AZ. State Police have set up a perimeter around the area and all residents are advised to stay indoors until further notice.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
For my real comment, is this the stardust that NASA (or somebody else) wants to give to people people to analyze because they also grabbed some debris from a recent (and by recent I mean 10 million years ago) exploding star?
So, even after this successful capsule recovery, this might not be the end.
This sig seemed like a good idea at the time....
From the article:
Early Sunday, that capsule nose-dived through Earth's atmosphere at a record 29,000 mph, the fastest return for a man-man probe.
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Well, now that it's back, we help them and join in the search: http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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I am not sure I want to know what a man-man probe is...
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My motorbike travels in Chile.
We did it this time. The previous mission didn't work right, but this one nailed it. The political naysayers and critics who want to redefine science should pay attention.
We did it this time, but even with our previous failure, how could we attain such a level of precision with our measuring and then engineering of the laws of physics and chemistry to achieve such a specific goal, to send out a space probe that mindlessly orbits around the solar system for years and comes back to us like a cosmic boomerang, and yet be drastically and unanimously incorrect when it comes to measuring the rate of radioactive decay of various elements in the extensive global collection of terrestrial geological samples and also the synthetic elements we've created during the twentieth century atomic age?
Have all the scientists in all the nations of the world simply got it exactly, equally wrong?
The scientific framework of ideas is well-established and the theories are interdependent. This is why we can readily reject challenges like "Intelligent Design".
Because they just don't fit in.
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/0 8/1625231/
Seems NASA actually did something RIGHT for once. Three cheers for NASA!
Sit at your computer and help the search with Stardust@Home.
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re: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/f
From NASA press release:
"I have been waiting for this day since the early 1980s when Deputy Principal Investigator Dr. Peter Tsou of JPL and I designed a mission to collect comet dust," said Dr. Don Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle. "To see the capsule safely back on its home planet is a thrilling accomplishment."
NASA has posted a few pictures and press releases.
Congratulations to all involved.
the fastest return for a man-man probe
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Not that there's anything wrong with that!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
What he wanted to point out, is that this mission is one more great achievement of science and engineering, one more proof of how valid the methods and the logic behind science and engineering is - regardless of what religious teachers are trying to persuade us. The religion, includung the ID "theory", has yet to come up with something nearly as impressive as this mission was, before they can claim *any* scientific credibility (remember: ID tries to look like science)
BTW, if you're not against ID, you are for it. Simple as that.
The last time a NASA capsule came down there, one paper ran the headline, "Saucer from Outer Space Lands in Utah Desert". Pretty clever way to grab attention without outright lying.
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They have been analysing the genesis wafers for more than a year now and there is still no scientific results.
I am very happy that this can happend! This is the greatest combat that is actually forbidden by the majority of the human population. This is the most important thing that we should understand as soon as possible. This represents the future of the humanity. And in 2005 it looks that there is again a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' like somedy told before. But we must work in group and organization that can bring new stuff without beeing limited to the cash! We must give all our energy in the developpement of a good space transporter! I know I dream but the earth will not be there for a long time! Focus gang, Focus! -- Sebastinator! Thanks for visiting my Web site! Post your comments on my forum!
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Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
For a good time, go to geocities.com/heroineworshipper/sharpened.jpg. The faint line in the sky is the spaceship re-entering as seen from Antioch, Calif*.
Yes...
I think it would be the alien organism in peril not us...
Earth organisms have had billions of years to evolve with billions of other organisms competing against them... Lining up an organism that has been floating round space with one from earth is most likely going to be like putting a featherweight up against a super heavy weight.
The story of a killer organism from outer space is only slightly less ridiculous than the story of superman.