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NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails
jw3 writes "The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory scheduled for launch today has failed its mission: the payload fairing failed to separate and the launch managers declared a contingency. George Diller, NASA launch commentator, said, 'It either did not separate or did not separate in the way that it should, but at any rate we're still trying to evaluate exactly what the status of the spacecraft is at this point.'" Update: 02/24 14:17 GMT by T : Reader fadethepolice points out a Reuters report which says that the craft crashed into the ocean just short of Antarctica.
is a hoax, and the rocket knows it was just wasting time and money. It threw the launch.
The telemetry from the satellite is reading zero across the board. That must mean there's no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere anymore. Now we don't have to worry about global warming - fantastic!
Good work, NASA. I knew we could get this climate change thing cleared up once we had better data.
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So we lost a machine that would have given us concrete evidence on the *possible* increase in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. And now NASA lost it even though they haven't lost an earth orbit bound spacecraft in a while. Let me get my tinfoil hat.
"wahts woring iwth my tyoping?"
Seems more like they used a Taurus. If one of those gets where it's going, it's a miracle.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So this means that in the battle against climate change, the biggest shot NASA has taken thus far is a rocket attack on Antarctica.
Oh honey look... How cute... an angry slashdotter!
An ICBM is what happens when you take a shit outside in Antarctica.
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