I am not opposed to continuing to fund Cassini, but the fact is that when a project goes to the politicians for more funding they need to demonstrate work which they could continue to do with more money. This very thin article has the feel of something which has been held back to use when the money runs out. Okay they have seen something funny, but they don't have a spectrum. Why not, surely they would be the most obviousl thing to do up front.
Nobody is expected to use it. I did a shift at the FSF stand on free software day a few years back. I gave out a lot of Trisquel CDs but for every disk I handed out I suggested the recipient walk around to the Ubuntu stand and get a disk from them as well.
Yeah also China needs South Korea as a trading partner. Consider all the mobile phone components which China makes for SK as just a minor example. China wants to stay in business so they can keep buying all the shiny things.
Yeah for the lithobraking idea you would have a low altitude polar orbiter with a high resolution radar mapping instrument. Map the whole moon, and drop the lander on the biggest smooth spot.
Does Galileo and its aerobraking maneuvers around Jupiter mean anything to you?
Galileo did no aerobraking. Rockets only.
you encounter the moon at the end of your ellipse and let its gravity pull you in
The required precision seems almost impossible to achieve. Some of the mars probes used aerobraking to circularise their orbits but they crept up on the appropriate depth to use over many orbits. Aerobraking was not used to immediately stop at a moon. The deep gravitational field of Jupiter means that even small errors in position will be too great to be corrected with rockets.
No atmosphere so no parachutes. Its a powered descent, unless you want to try lithobraking. In the future that may be an option. Consider landing a sled on smooth ice at 2 km/s.
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Yeah thats the way it works here in Australia. Anybody can apply for a marriage celebrant license.
Where I live you can be a civil celebrant and call yourself a Jedi if you want.
They always have, chucky. Any anyway, all the ISP email systems I have seen recently use google.
risking time at the bottom of the nearest river
That explains all those tourists drowning in the yarra.
The Apollo ALSEP experiments were defunded and shut down. It seems stupid but it does happen.
My back yard is full of the stuff, it just very slow moving.
I am not opposed to continuing to fund Cassini, but the fact is that when a project goes to the politicians for more funding they need to demonstrate work which they could continue to do with more money. This very thin article has the feel of something which has been held back to use when the money runs out. Okay they have seen something funny, but they don't have a spectrum. Why not, surely they would be the most obviousl thing to do up front.
Its the Puppet Masters.
It sounds like a ploy to keep the funds flowing for Cassini.
I think unity is pretty good. Not perfect, but it scores high on usability IMHO.
I think Ubuntu is perfectly fine. Why not stay with it?
Nobody is expected to use it. I did a shift at the FSF stand on free software day a few years back. I gave out a lot of Trisquel CDs but for every disk I handed out I suggested the recipient walk around to the Ubuntu stand and get a disk from them as well.
You get the benfit of most of the work done by the Ubuntu project.
Doesn't come more meta than that.
Warm water exposed to vacuum will sublimate. The magnesium may be transported physically, just carried along with a stream of vapour.
The Seoul subway system is extensive and very deep. It is drilled into solid rock and I am sure it was designed as a shelter system.
Sure but crazy individuals die by Suicide by cop all the time. Maybe NK is like one of those people.
Yeah also China needs South Korea as a trading partner. Consider all the mobile phone components which China makes for SK as just a minor example. China wants to stay in business so they can keep buying all the shiny things.
If he tells a Justice Department oversight hearing that a prosecutor who worked for him drove a man to suicide then he may as well resign on the spot.
The only problem I have with this debate is the implicit assumption that it might be okay to murder non-Americans with drones.
Europa looks smooth, like warm ice.
Yeah for the lithobraking idea you would have a low altitude polar orbiter with a high resolution radar mapping instrument. Map the whole moon, and drop the lander on the biggest smooth spot.
Does Galileo and its aerobraking maneuvers around Jupiter mean anything to you?
Galileo did no aerobraking. Rockets only.
you encounter the moon at the end of your ellipse and let its gravity pull you in
The required precision seems almost impossible to achieve. Some of the mars probes used aerobraking to circularise their orbits but they crept up on the appropriate depth to use over many orbits. Aerobraking was not used to immediately stop at a moon. The deep gravitational field of Jupiter means that even small errors in position will be too great to be corrected with rockets.
Maybe.
No atmosphere so no parachutes. Its a powered descent, unless you want to try lithobraking. In the future that may be an option. Consider landing a sled on smooth ice at 2 km/s.