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Venus Probe Set to Reach Target
Accommodate Students writes "The BBC is reporting on the first space mission to Venus in a decade, which is about to reach its target. From the article: 'On Tuesday morning, a European robotic craft will perform a 50-minute-long engine burn to slow its speed enough to be captured by Venus' gravity. Venus Express will orbit our nearest planetary neighbour for about 500 Earth days to study its atmosphere, which has undergone runaway greenhouse warming.' If all goes well, it could shed important light on climate change here on Earth."
"If all goes well, it could shed important light on climate change here on Earth."
Jesus Christ SHUT UP! Every single science/astronomy news bit has to have this "This X discovery will help us understand more about Y." I know I'm not the only starting to get sick of this.
All Hail Discordia. Hail Eris. Fnord.
Nobody is ignoring global warming. Many are questioning that humans are causing the global warming.
I personally agree that humans can have a slight effect but certianly not enough to do what is seen. You enviro wannabe's ignore the fact that all inner planets of the solar system are currently experiencing the SAME global warming as well as some of the outer planets as well. You guys also love to ignore the blatent fact that we are coming out of an ice age.
Maybe if the enviro leftist nuts shut the hell up and let real science speak we all would see that this is a part of the normal cycle in this tiny little planet and Solar system.
Cripes we know 0.0001% of this planet's climate history and you nuts go around acting like experts. Give me 10,000 years of daily measured data and then I'll pay attention to your wild ass claims. (No, you can not get accurate temperature data from ice packs, you can get a crude average that is highly influenced by local events and conditions. you cant get any of the critically important data out of any current arceological techniques.)
This probe will prove that system wide there is a warming trend because of increased solar output. something that we should have been monitoring very closely for the past 100 years but were too busy hugging trees that should have been cut down and replanted.
It's also a good time to remember that the USA government has always made out that they do not do "psyops" on American citizens, but during the Cold War it is clear that they did. I fear that they are also doing so today with the new "Long war".
Oh, shut the fuck up you rotten-toothed tea-wop. If you want to get on your little AMERRIKKA hobby-horse and spew your teenage angst, at least do it in a thread that has something to do with America.