This too does piss me off as a conscientious consumer - people abusing the system, or being abusive to service employees. However - a company is in no position to dictate terms to their customers. I mean companies not allowing people to return opened games and DVD's, only giving store credit back, and complaining about people who abuse rebates. The people who actually turn in a rebate and go through all the paper work are so few and far between, that the couple of abusers out there of that percentage is rediculous. BB is whining that they don't get there way, and that people are cutting into their rebate's profits. Good companies take the expired coupons, they respect their customers.
Actually there is quite an argument to bring back the multi-billion dollar probes - since "faster-cheaper-'better'" has't exactly worked out. With the big missions you can put all the instruments you think you need, while the small fast missions make assumptions - often wrong - about what to observe. I heard a lecture at the local Astronomy Society that many scientists are saying that the current mars missions are looking at the wrong thing. Since these missions are pretty much one-trick ponies sent to answer one question, instead of exploring and finding questions, and since they are so many of them already the pipeline, it will be 10 years or so until they even have a chance to turn around and addressing science's needs. Current missions are faster, smaller, and cheaper - but they are not better than missions like Gallieo and Cassini, and even Voyager and Pioneer that were built like a rock and can take anything that a planet throws at them. Because of the budget cuts - NASA's robotic missions have become less and less effective.
The pictures are showing hella lot of detail - you its just that its really really close up. 1 pixel is about 2 football fields which means that these are the most detailed pictures ever taken of saturn's rings.
That would be because they havent uploaded the pictures yet. You have to be patient since they want to process the pictures first to remove those nasty lines.
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This too does piss me off as a conscientious consumer - people abusing the system, or being abusive to service employees. However - a company is in no position to dictate terms to their customers. I mean companies not allowing people to return opened games and DVD's, only giving store credit back, and complaining about people who abuse rebates. The people who actually turn in a rebate and go through all the paper work are so few and far between, that the couple of abusers out there of that percentage is rediculous. BB is whining that they don't get there way, and that people are cutting into their rebate's profits. Good companies take the expired coupons, they respect their customers.
sorry about that - had someone behind me, and forced me to submit before ready - anyways - the link is for the 4 year mission plan
here is the There is a distant Flyby of Titan, but for the most part until the end of the year - all it is is setup for hte Huygens mission.
Actually there is quite an argument to bring back the multi-billion dollar probes - since "faster-cheaper-'better'" has't exactly worked out. With the big missions you can put all the instruments you think you need, while the small fast missions make assumptions - often wrong - about what to observe. I heard a lecture at the local Astronomy Society that many scientists are saying that the current mars missions are looking at the wrong thing. Since these missions are pretty much one-trick ponies sent to answer one question, instead of exploring and finding questions, and since they are so many of them already the pipeline, it will be 10 years or so until they even have a chance to turn around and addressing science's needs. Current missions are faster, smaller, and cheaper - but they are not better than missions like Gallieo and Cassini, and even Voyager and Pioneer that were built like a rock and can take anything that a planet throws at them. Because of the budget cuts - NASA's robotic missions have become less and less effective.
The pictures are showing hella lot of detail - you its just that its really really close up. 1 pixel is about 2 football fields which means that these are the most detailed pictures ever taken of saturn's rings.
Its the camera's electrical interference - they havent removed the bars and all the specks from cosmic rays.
That would be because they havent uploaded the pictures yet. You have to be patient since they want to process the pictures first to remove those nasty lines.