New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip

solaGratia passes along word of the equipping of Juno, the most heavily armored craft ever to be launched to another planet. The launch is scheduled for a year from now. "In a specially filtered cleanroom in Denver, where Juno is being assembled, engineers recently added a unique protective shield around its sensitive electronics. ... 'For the 15 months Juno orbits Jupiter, the spacecraft will have to withstand the equivalent of more than 100 million dental X-rays,' said... Juno's radiation control manager... [The] titanium box — about the size of an SUV's trunk — encloses Juno's command and data handling box..., power and data distribution unit..., and about 20 other electronic assemblies. The whole vault weighs about 200 kilograms (500 pounds)."

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Re:why?

[Ethanol-fueled]

Let's shoutout to all the females in space too, shall we? Interstellar travel would be no fun if it were a sausage party. From the Wikipedia article about the famous phrase:

Five years later after the release of The Wrath of Khan, a slightly altered version of the introduction was included in the title sequence of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The new version replaced...the word "man" with the gender- and species-neutral "one". The new introduction, narrated by Patrick Stewart (who played the Enterprise-D's captain, Jean-Luc Picard), at the beginning of every episode of that series, was:

Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Though I wish the females' TOS uniforms were still en vogue. ;)

Re:opps, out by a factor on 100.

[oliverthered]

I've been up all night (without any drugs) and I think it's starting to show.

Re:why?

[oliverthered]

Feminine is used in the English language for a neuter form of a single entity.
America and her army,
My ship and all who sail in her.

Masculine is used in the English language for a neuter form of a unit of a group.

In chess, move you man.

Did they also change Woman to be Woone? or Woperson?

But then person is no good either, it's got son in it and that's not gender neutral.

So, from now on I'm going to call my partner a Wopeone, that is unless my partner is male in which case I'm gona call him my bitch.

Re:opps, out by a factor on 100.

[oliverthered]

Well, I've been down the 'so called' doctor and got given some benzos the other day.
Which kept me awake. God knows why they thought
they would make me sleepy, they should know by now the sedatives keep me awake, stimulants help me sleep and anti-psychotics give me psychosis.
(I'm hoping that one day, I'm not so stressed by the anal idiots that I actually remember to ask them, why that is. And if they say the word think or anything like that, then to ask them exactly what those thoughts are etc...)

I've tried food, since that's a commonly available stimulant drug, along with about 10 cigarettes and a could of good strong litres of coffee, and managed to fall asleep for a little while shortly afterwards.

Now, I'm strongly thinking about getting myself arrested and sent to court, in a continuous cycle until. Hopefully it won't take another 20 years for them to pull their heads out their arse.