Voyager I obviously punched a hole in our Heliosphere and it is now deflating like the cosmic water balloon it is. All of our solar system goodness is leaking out into the universe. Now there is nothing to keep the Overlords out!
That's it for me. I'm jumping on the next comet out of here!
"The camera's high resolution will enable the identification of objects as small as a coffee table while the camera orbits 300 kilometers above the planet's surface."
If this camera can resolve a coffee table-sized object as it orbits from that height, just think of the wonderful pictures we'll get as the whole probe goes off course and plunges into the Martian atmosphere and buries itself hundreds of feet into the red soil. "Did you get a look at that rock just before we crashed into it and vaporized it"
"due to the now incredibly high standards of NASA"
Are you serious? These are the guys that forgot to convert Metric to English and sent a multi-million dollar machine hurtling into a planet. Where was the quality control there?
Granted, these pieces of machinery are more complex than almost anything humans have ever produced, but they've been scrambling for a week to find out why a light came on. Come on. Even my car company was smart enough to put a computer in that can now tell my mechanic why a "CHECK ENGINE" light comes on, or at least what sensor caused the incident, if not the actual cause. Someone needs to send them one of those hand-held code readers.
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Voyager I obviously punched a hole in our Heliosphere and it is now deflating like the cosmic water balloon it is. All of our solar system goodness is leaking out into the universe. Now there is nothing to keep the Overlords out! That's it for me. I'm jumping on the next comet out of here!
"The camera's high resolution will enable the identification of objects as small as a coffee table while the camera orbits 300 kilometers above the planet's surface." If this camera can resolve a coffee table-sized object as it orbits from that height, just think of the wonderful pictures we'll get as the whole probe goes off course and plunges into the Martian atmosphere and buries itself hundreds of feet into the red soil. "Did you get a look at that rock just before we crashed into it and vaporized it"
"due to the now incredibly high standards of NASA" Are you serious? These are the guys that forgot to convert Metric to English and sent a multi-million dollar machine hurtling into a planet. Where was the quality control there? Granted, these pieces of machinery are more complex than almost anything humans have ever produced, but they've been scrambling for a week to find out why a light came on. Come on. Even my car company was smart enough to put a computer in that can now tell my mechanic why a "CHECK ENGINE" light comes on, or at least what sensor caused the incident, if not the actual cause. Someone needs to send them one of those hand-held code readers.