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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Penderic on July 14, 2015, 07:02:39 PM
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Pics starting to arrive from the probe so far far away!
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Looks lonely. :cry:
:popcorn:
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Shocking this 15yr NASA mission cost exactly half as much as the Cowbots new stadium
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That little orb has taken a hammering.
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Yes lots of recent hits, and to my geologists eye a very, very complex terrain. I see possible lakes of methane? Seasonal features?
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Cowbots?
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ok
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Yes lots of recent hits, and to my geologists eye a very, very complex terrain. I see possible lakes of methane? Seasonal features?
I don't know about seasons... the temperature is always below the freezing point of methane. Maybe methane skating ponds. :grin:
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Shocking this 15yr NASA mission cost exactly half as much as the Cowbots new stadium
Maybe Jerra can finance the Mars mission? :cool: :boozing:
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Triple,
You are likely correct. Titan is much larger, with higher gravity and a pretty thick atmosphere. It is also a lot closer to our Sun and gets a lot more heating. PV = nRT comes into play with Titan methane lakes also.
Pluto's variable terrain will be quite likely revealed in extreme detail sometime next week. The light/dark could be compositional, or could be related to impacts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan
Dang cold and dark out there in Pluto land. Exotic as hell. Fascinating.
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have we sent a probe to Uranus yet?
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The high resolution version is causing some concern:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ5Hn6BWoAUZ45f.jpg)
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Well, it sure looks like a planet(oid) to me.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/tr401atg-w484h484z1-9177-dear-nasa_zpsanxfl2lw.jpg)
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have we sent a probe to Uranus yet?
I can't read the page. My laptop is shaking too much from my laughter.
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Sorry, but I've always been in the camp that just doesn't get it. Methane, shmethane, what does it matter? Are we to believe that this momentous event will bring Mankind untold advances like Tang, space pens, and space blankets?
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Sorry, but I've always been in the camp that just doesn't get it. Methane, shmethane, what does it matter? Are we to believe that this momentous event will bring Mankind untold advances like Tang, space pens, and space blankets?
All depends on what enriches your life. For some, it's knowledge, for others, it's Twinkies.
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Sorry, but I've always been in the camp that just doesn't get it. Methane, shmethane, what does it matter? Are we to believe that this momentous event will bring Mankind untold advances like Tang, space pens, and space blankets?
And velcro, don't forget velcro. It is what hold us together.
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And Teflon for heart valves.
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All depends on what enriches your life. For some, it's knowledge, for others, it's Twinkies.
Well, that's certainly patronizing. Questioning the real world benefits of the space program hardly makes me a knuckle dragger.
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You Earthlings are just so special! :rolleyes:
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I find this fantastic. :thumb: Space, far out.
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Well, that's certainly patronizing. Questioning the real world benefits of the space program hardly makes me a knuckle dragger.
I hope what he was trying to say is that finding out about the previously unknown and the universe we live in is one of the things that makes us different from a chimpanzee (oops, this may be a different level of patronizing).
We're more than just walking stomachs that need to be fed - we have minds and curiosity too.
Me, I'm all for it. I'd hate to think that we wouldn't be interested in what Mars might hold because we should spend the money on better Twinkies or something (ouch, I just can't stop ...)
Lannis
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That little orb has taken a hammering.
Yeah, being demoted to a dwarf planet is enough to crush any planet's ego.
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........make a Twinkie better? No way.
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Rumor is that Titan has oceans of whiskey!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/whisky3kt_zpsut2yntrm.gif)
Methane ice gives it a funny flavor though. :boozing:
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Sorry, but I've always been in the camp that just doesn't get it. Methane, shmethane, what does it matter? Are we to believe that this momentous event will bring Mankind untold advances like Tang, space pens, and space blankets?
I can't even get new Orleans to fix the streets here . It is all about priorities.
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What amazes me is so many differences in the extra terrestrial bodies.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/moons_zpsvr3zo3yd.png)
If they were all the same then exploring unknown space would get boring very quickly!
The quest to answer the age old question ...... what is over the next hill?
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Pennie , I am waiting for a square celestial body , or even better , one that resembles a T-Rex :grin:
Dusty
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Pennie , I am waiting for a square celestial body , or even better , one that resembles a T-Rex :grin:
Dusty
Sorry Dusty, nothing like that floating around space that I know of.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/eg-Mars-face-llama_zpsiej6que5.jpg)
But maybe there are. :rolleyes: We just got to look a little harder. :grin:
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Wow , 10,000 foot tall ice mountains !
Dusty
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Wow , 10,000 foot tall ice mountains !
Dusty
Lorraine dear, fetch me some more Scotch. I got a mess of ice here.
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Well, that's certainly patronizing. Questioning the real world benefits of the space program hardly makes me a knuckle dragger.
throw out your GPS
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throw out your GPS
Knock it off. You all know precisely what I mean. Whether Titan is made from methane or blue cheese is essentially meaningless. Are you saying that none of the advances mentioned could have been conceived of if the engineers did not have the mission to send a tiny probe bajillions of gigalons into space to take pictures of gas balls?
The "knowledge for knowledge sake" argument, in essence, is an admission that the scientists involved are just coming up with pictures of blue vs white gas balls and they have to make us all feel that this is a momentous step for mankind.
Sorry about my total incapacity for abstract thought, but if you want to develop GPS, radial tires, flush toilets, etc- awesome. Just don't shuck and jive me into believing that the bajillions of dollars spent on counting the angels dancing on the tenth moon of Venus have enriched my life.
-Cro magnon man
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The program cost $720 million.
That's less than the cost of the $1 billion Vikings stadium.
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Who is winning?
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There was a whole era when technology was partially driven by the space program. That's generally over now, and it's driven by the consumers' willingness to pay for it. The computers that most of us have at home are newer and more powerful than the ones in the space station.
Dusty, from Wikipedia: "Once patent priority was resolved, in Bayer's favor, Bayer began commercial production under the trade name Makrolon in 1958 and GE began production under the name Lexan in 1960."
The Apollo program was conceived in 1960.
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Wouldnt have had the Industrial Revolution without the early Space program!
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Much, much better the space programs for tech impetus than wars, it produces such neat stuff.
I like us having frontiers, and regret not having access to that next one in my lifetime. We may well bugger it up along the the way with our fumbling, but it has, is & will produce such glorious moments.
Mal
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If you look carefully at the white mass on the bottom of the planet I am sure you can see Pluto's face!