Could the system be modified to receive instead of transmit? Then instead of being a pain in the arse for radio astronomy it could be a usefull tool...a radio interferometor like the VLA in New Mexico only with a diameter the same (actually bigger) than the earth.
"Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good, but internally it's just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft and who have had years of experience just don't know how it works internally. Worse, nobody dares change it. Nobody dares to fix bugs because it's such a mess that fixing one bug might just break a hundred programs that depend on that bug. And Microsoft isn't interested in anyone fixing bugs--they're interested in making money. They don't have anybody who takes pride in Windows 95 as an operating system."
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens proposed something similar in their thriller "Icefire". Six nuclear warheads were used by a rouge Chinese faction to collapse the Ross Ice Sheet in Antarctica, and at the same time a high yeild nuke was detonated above the ice sheet, driving it into the Ross Sea at high velocity. The resulting wave was initially 1400 ft high and travelled outward at around 500 mph. The wave threatens to put the entire LA basin under a minimum of 20 feet of water. Scary...
Unless of course your ship is moving faster than the escape velocity for that particular body, in which case your craft would be farther accelerated and flung out of the solar system faster than it was, or decelerated and dropped in toward the sun, depending on how you approched the massive body.
Even if there is no water found, the only thing that is proven is that there is no water in that particular crater. It's like landing a craft in the middle of the Sahara Desert and saying there are no trees on Earth. What we should do is send people back. Better than robots - which usually raise more questions than they answer - people can go back out and do some more research. This time though lets make it worth the trip. Lets put the scientists up there intead of the test pilots. Considering that the last time out of 12 men...the last man to step onto the moon was a qualified geologist...
In Ster Trek, didn't Zefram Cochrane make the first warp flight in 2061? We're well on our way to actually fulfilling one sci-fi prophecy... Also, to quote Micheal Okuda, warp drive works because the script says it does.
"There is a pleasure sure in being mad that none but madmen know"
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Could the system be modified to receive instead of transmit? Then instead of being a pain in the arse for radio astronomy it could be a usefull tool...a radio interferometor like the VLA in New Mexico only with a diameter the same (actually bigger) than the earth.
Technically...doesn't every peice of shit that we put into orbit qualify as a moon?
Hmmmm...screw your fans you will not.
"Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good, but internally it's just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft and who have had years of experience just don't know how it works internally. Worse, nobody dares change it. Nobody dares to fix bugs because it's such a mess that fixing one bug might just break a
hundred programs that depend on that bug. And Microsoft isn't interested in anyone fixing bugs--they're interested in making money. They don't
have anybody who takes pride in Windows 95 as an operating system."
In the hood we call that a dis...
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens proposed something similar in their thriller "Icefire".
Six nuclear warheads were used by a rouge Chinese faction to collapse the Ross Ice Sheet in Antarctica, and at the same time a high yeild nuke was detonated above the ice sheet, driving it into the Ross Sea at high velocity. The resulting wave was initially 1400 ft high and travelled outward at around 500 mph. The wave threatens to put the entire LA basin under a minimum of 20 feet of water.
Scary...
Ever get that creepy Deja Vu feeling?
See eBay does have a good purpose: He didn't have to be with Tori Spelling...
Unless of course your ship is moving faster than the escape velocity for that particular body, in which case your craft would be farther accelerated and flung out of the solar system faster than it was, or decelerated and dropped in toward the sun, depending on how you approched the massive body.
Even if there is no water found, the only thing that is proven is that there is no water in that particular crater. It's like landing a craft in the middle of the Sahara Desert and saying there are no trees on Earth.
What we should do is send people back. Better than robots - which usually raise more questions than they answer - people can go back out and do some more research.
This time though lets make it worth the trip. Lets put the scientists up there intead of the test pilots. Considering that the last time out of 12 men...the last man to step onto the moon was a qualified geologist...
The dangers of using a product of the evil empire.
In Ster Trek, didn't Zefram Cochrane make the first warp flight in 2061? We're well on our way to actually fulfilling one sci-fi prophecy...
Also, to quote Micheal Okuda, warp drive works because the script says it does.
"There is a pleasure sure in being mad that none but madmen know"