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Scientists Set Bold Plan For Future Exploration of the Sun
coondoggie writes "Our understanding of space weather and the impact of space around Earth has greatly increased in the last 10 years and if the ambitious plan the National Research Council can be implemented, the next 10 years will generate tons more scientific insight. The National Research Council issued its second research recommendation report, 'Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society,' which represents 18 months of research by more than 85 solar and space physicists and space system engineers and lays out major scientific goals for solar exploration on the next 10 years."
Manned exploration of the sun. Now that would be bold.
The first person to make the "go at night" joke should be permabanned.
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At night of course..
You ain't seen bold until someone funds my manned mission to the Sun.
As a cost saving measure, we'll go at night. As well as reduced insulation expenses, it's downhill all the way.
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The government would save alot of time and money if they scheduled their solar exploation craft to go at night. I'm just sayin.
Oh, yeah! Wise guy, huh? Woob woob woob woob! Nyuk! Nyuk!
4 posts: 2 "at nights", 2 "manned expeditions".
Carry on, Slashdot.
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They're going to land at night.
The "earth first" crowd will shoot themselves in the foot if this takes hold and they do the research without lying. Once the data is collected they can all call a press conference and say SHAZAM! Goooollllllllyyyyyy! We was wrong about this global warming/climate change. It really is the sun that warms up the planet, melts the polar ice caps and makes polar bears stranded on small icebergs. Man had nothing to do with it. Who would have thought something SO HUGE with SO MUCH SOLAR output could cause the earth to actually warm up, without man getting involved.
In other news, India has just announced a manned landing on the Sun by 2019.
I look forward to the day when American scientific research can generate tonnes more scientific research.
And how many tons are there per Library of Congress?
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I want to know when we will be able to put a man on the sun. In fact, I'd be more than willing to volunteer a few people...
They're going to go at night?
I propose that we send select delegates from both the house and senate on this noteworthy mission, so that they can see for themselves how silly it was to scrub the "return stage" construction budget.
We of course, need to supply them with 2 way radio contact so thay can debate the matter via telepresence with their peers in washington.
They're going to land on the dark side of the Sun.
During a press conference
President: We will beat other countries by sending the first man on the sun!
Press: Will they get burned?
President: I have thought about that so we will be sending them during the night!
"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun."
(Excellent.)
Because this must be the people who came up with that. Smashmouth you too, buddy !!
Hey all scientists who have ambitious 'plans' to "experiment" with the Sun... Please DON'T!!! DON'T FUCK WITH THE SUN!!! Just look at it, okay? Do not "play" with it! It's working, it's been working fine fir BILLIONS OF YEARS!!! When something as important as THE SUN is working, leave it alone! Don't fix it!!!
NASA will send a pair of rovers, the "Damn, that's hot" and the "Ouch, it burns" to explore the photosphere. Expected mission lengths after arrival are expected to be measured in the femtoseconds.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
No? Just wondering. Thanks.
They have four main goals:
*Determine the origins of the Sun's activity and predict the variations in the space environment.
* Determine the dynamics and coupling of Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial inputs.
* Determine the interaction of the Sun with the solar system and the interstellar medium.
* Discover and characterize fundamental processes that occur both within the heliosphere and throughout the universe.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
A Ferengi scientist, Dr. Reyga, has created a metaphasic shielding technique. A shuttle is to be fitted with Dr. Reyga's shield and flown into a nearby star.
In Soviet Russia, the sun explores you!
I R on Sun, first manned mission to the Sun.
Will they take all the fissionable material on earth, make it into a bomb the size of Manhattan Island to restart the sun and then, when the ship breaks down, build another one that also has all the fissionable material on earth?
Because, from where I'm standing, that about sums up the average "scientist's" level of credibility.
Reads like the sort of bland non-specific but ambitious-sounding balls that research councils push all the time. Great sound bites for the politicians, but what does it really mean?
Harness sun's energy create revolving man-made earth, so that we can be there in-spite of asteroid Armageddon on earth.
Today Joe Biden will announce our plans to land the first man on the Sun.
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Glad you asked... http://m.tgdaily.com/space-features/65491-why-is-the-sun-so-round
Now THAT would be bold. Laser cooled, laser propulsion manned solar exploration vehicle. Until they can match David Brin's dream, nothing about solar exploration will feel "bold" to me. Sigh. I'm spoiled.
I like my dinosaurs feathery, and my pterosaurs hairy (or is it pycnofibery?)
Is it April already?
Back in the 1990s there was a similar blueprint produced by a group of Government agencies for space weather research over the upcoming 20 years. I mentioned this report to an engineer at Motorloa with whom I was working on estimating the potential for space weather impact on the then-planned Iridium system. She admitted as to having read the report, but her opinion was that it was simply "welfare for whitecoats" (ie., researchers) with no clear plans to fund the work needed to turn research into usable tools and products (reliable predictions, for example). This was a brutal take on the issue, but it raised a clear point that even the National Research Council later took on in a report they called "Crossing the Valley of Death - From Research to Operations". It's hard enough to get funding to do basic research. Getting funding to do applied research has been, is, and probably always will be the key missing piece in all this. There's no coherent base to advocate for it, whereas at least the research community has any number of organizations that do nothing but lobby for research funding.
There are many great space exploration ideas out there and way to little funds.
Exploration of the Sun is so, so... hot...
Is there any reason for a manned mission to the solar system? The sun and mercury are obivous out of the question and most likely venus, but could there be any other reason to ever send a manned mission the interior of the solar system?