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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Braves Jupiter Radiation For a 4th of July Arrival (blastingnews.com)
MarkWhittington writes: July 4, if all goes well, will be an occasion for celebration at NASA as the Juno spacecraft, after a nearly five-year voyage, will go into orbit around Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Juno will spend its time in a zone of intense radiation, against which it has been armored, in an effort to ferret out Jupiter's secrets. By so doing, NASA hopes to gain insights into the origin of the solar system as well as gaining more knowledge of the gas giant, comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium with trace elements of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.
NASA has a budget that is 0.5% of the federal budget. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want wasteful spending, I'm sure there are other bigger-ticket items than NASA.
I've always wondered the same thing, so I googled "Can you stand on Jupiter?" Condensed version: at the core is a (??) solid rock and some other stuff, and gasses are so dense and hot, they act more like a liquid. Furthermore, it meets the requirements of a planet; 1. It orbits the Sun 2. It has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape) 3. It has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit (credit: http://www.city-data.com/forum...)
The Federal Government itself says it wastes over 7 TIMES as much as the entire NASA budget, every year. Medicare, Medicaid, and EITC fraud alone is $95 billion a year.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
That was europa. The other worlds are for us to explore.
"No impact"...such as boostrapping the fledgling digital IC industry by buying 100k+ units and teaching the manufacturers to do proper QA?
Ezekiel 23:20