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NASA Preps Closest-Ever Sun Mission

Posted by timothy on from the ask-your-actuary-if-you'll-be-around dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. The Solar Probe, a car-sized spacecraft, is scheduled to launch no later than 2018 and will fly closer to the Sun's surface than any other probe, NASA stated. Ultimately the spacecraft's goals are to help scientists understand why the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than the sun's visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system, NASA said."

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  1. SOB by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They should name the probe "Bitch". Then all the captions will read, "Sun of a Bitch".

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  2. Dipshits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thanks to dipshits like you, the first relevant comment is several pages down, after a bunch of attempts to be funny. A few of those attempts were very mildly successful. The rest were not.

    Can't you dipshits go back to Digg? I'm all for humor but when I want entertainment Slashdot is one of the last places I'd go. Alas, Slashdot is descending into the average infotainment type of media hellhole that the rabble and the riff-raff and other dumb masses consume in very large quantities. God forbid that anything remain a contrast to that for very long. Slashdot had a good run though, it remained intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking for several years and still has the occasional gem. Then everyone had to be a comedian, but there was only one problem: almost none of you are any good at it.

  3. mod d0wn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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