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Mission Complete! WMAP In 'Graveyard Orbit'
astroengine writes "The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has, quite literally, changed our view of the Universe. And after nine years of mapping the slight temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, its job is done and NASA has commanded the probe to fire itself into a 'graveyard orbit' around the sun. WMAP measured the most precise age of the universe (13.75 billion years), discovered more evidence supporting dark energy and dark matter theories, and found one or two mysteries along the way."
We put it in the Graveyard and wait for night to send it all the way.
Yeah, what would the Klingons do without deactivated shooting targets?
One that hath name thou can not otter
Or some SciFi writer discovers it and the damsels appear, followed by the evil tentacled villains . . .
Sounds like a day in the life of my Adamantine miners.
Yes, we're waiting for it to become a zombie, and then start killing satellites that are still working, turning them into zombies as well...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Silly Christian propaganda! Islam provides a far more accurate view of the heavens than any man-made space doohickey . I bet Muhammed (Geese be upon him) got a pretty good look at space while he was traveling around on his flying mutant horsie, hobnobbing with all and sundry in heaven.
Hmm, come to think of it I think there may have been some man/horse love - at least if this excerpt is anything to go by:
"Hearing this he (the mutant horsie) was so ashamed that he sweated until he became soaked, and he stood still so that the Prophet mounted him."
-- Using the preview button since 2005
It'll come back as W'AP looking for the creator.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.