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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. Why does NASA not fund metalurgical research? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Their own NASA SOHO C3 satelite films pictures of foreign craft fly next to the sun,
    yet NASA will not ackowledge this fact they should be researching and developing to
    stimulate civilian arts as metalurgy rather than waste U$10k/lb putting their combusting
    junk into orbit.

    1. Re:Why does NASA not fund metalurgical research? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I don't see what the comedy is about. Why does NASA cancel all the public-access
      to their visual satellite feeds? We pay for NASA, and they violate their charter
      when they prevent us access to these that we payed in full to develop and launch
      and maintain in their orbittal positions.

      I guess it's only Tinfoil-hat comedy "gold" when Larry the Cable Guy points at it
      on /. while hiding behind Anonymous Coward like Jeff Foxworthy does. You truly are
      as smart as a 5th-grader, AC.

      [quote]
      Tinfoil-hat comedy gold.
      [/quote]

  2. Compare a SPACE LAZOR to a LIGHT SABER. :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lazors made by man are usually nothing highly ineffectient having no termination point, yet all the reports from abductees always reference the beams of light levitating them off the ground as though a dimensional breach of consistent matter drawing them to it's source while radiating light energy.

    The "artifacts" in the video are actual photographs of a LIVE LEAKED STREAM taken over the course over the year, and are not blurs from failed photography: they are actual RAYS of light that penetrate the sun from a source. Basic geometry here, idiot. Enjoy being modded-up to conceal your flamebait that does more to silence discussion rather than answer questions.