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I'm so EXCITED!! WE've landed on Titan Successfully!!

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So, it only transmitted for two hours? Is that as long as the batteries held out?

On a side note...can you imagine being able to visit such a place? Imagine what it would be like to see rivers and oceans of liquid methane and all sorts of other oddities that would be on display....

/dreams

🙂
 
Woohoo! 3 Billion dollars worth of pretty pictures that tell the average person what exactly now............and affects them how exactly......in the end no life there and whatever happened billions of years ago is all speculation anyway. We're just employing a few professors and scientists that have nothing better to do....
 
Originally posted by: Rockhound
Woohoo! 3 Billion dollars worth of pretty pictures that tell the average person what exactly now............and affects them how exactly......in the end no life there and whatever happened billions of years ago is all speculation anyway. We're just employing a few professors and scientists that have nothing better to do....
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nice flamebait.
 
Originally posted by: Rockhound
Woohoo! 3 Billion dollars worth of pretty pictures that tell the average person what exactly now............and affects them how exactly......in the end no life there and whatever happened billions of years ago is all speculation anyway. We're just employing a few professors and scientists that have nothing better to do....
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You know someone might have said the same thing about a vacuum tube, some phosphorus, a heating coil, a high voltage plate, and some magnets, but those few items changed the world in more ways than any social program could have done.

Have fun typing on that computer of yours. God forbid a scientist invented it.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Rockhound
Woohoo! 3 Billion dollars worth of pretty pictures that tell the average person what exactly now............and affects them how exactly......in the end no life there and whatever happened billions of years ago is all speculation anyway. We're just employing a few professors and scientists that have nothing better to do....
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You know someone might have said the same thing about a vacuum tube, some phosphorus, a heating coil, a high voltage plate, and some magnets, but those few items changed the world in more ways than any social program could have done.

Have fun typing on that computer of yours. God forbid a scientist invented it.
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pwn3d
 
Originally posted by: Rockhound
Woohoo! 3 Billion dollars worth of pretty pictures that tell the average person what exactly now............and affects them how exactly......in the end no life there and whatever happened billions of years ago is all speculation anyway. We're just employing a few professors and scientists that have nothing better to do....
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What keeps you alive?
 
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Oh god NASA! NASA, give it to me! Oh god! Oh yes! Oh god! Oh yes!





What, you mean this isn't the big NASA circle jerk thread? 😀
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There's no reason it can't be.
 
I can't believe it took 7 years to get there.

I cannot believe that we can set something up to land on a moon THAT far away and have pictures back immediately.

It's amazing.

😀
 
Originally posted by: bjc112
I can't believe it took 7 years to get there.

I cannot believe that we can set something up to land on a moon THAT far away and have pictures back immediately.

It's amazing.

😀
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Well, the pictures take over an hour to get back here...

Imagine that. Playing CS with a 2 hour ping.
 
What I find interesting is why do we have such different methods of landing the crafts.. Like the bubble thing on mars, and the parachute thing on Titan.. Isn't there 1 best method of deployment?
 
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
What I find interesting is why do we have such different methods of landing the crafts.. Like the bubble thing on mars, and the parachute thing on Titan.. Isn't there 1 best method of deployment?
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they used parachutes on mars also. huygens was just designed to land, not release rovers, so it could just hit down and not really have to protect itself as much.
 
Originally posted by: shimsham
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
What I find interesting is why do we have such different methods of landing the crafts.. Like the bubble thing on mars, and the parachute thing on Titan.. Isn't there 1 best method of deployment?
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they used parachutes on mars also. huygens was just designed to land, not release rovers, so it could just hit down and not really have to protect itself as much.
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Actually it's mostly because Mars' atmosphere is very very thin compared to earth's while Titan has an atmosphere that is a bit thicker than ours.
 
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Oh god NASA! NASA, give it to me! Oh god! Oh yes! Oh god! Oh yes!





What, you mean this isn't the big NASA circle jerk thread? 😀
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Oh get off your high horse and enjoy this while you can...
 
I was drawn by the sirens of Titan
Carried along by their call
Seeking for a way to enlighten
Searching for the sense of it all
Like a kiss on the wind I was thrown to the stars
Captured and ordered in the army of Mars
Marching to the sound of the drum in my head
I followed the call

Only to be Malachi Constant
I thought I came to this earth
Living in the heart of the moment
With the riches I gained at my birth
But here in the yellow and blue of my days
I wander the endless Mercurian caves
Watching for the signs the Harmonians make
The words on the walls

I was drawn by the sirens of Titan
And so I came in the end
Under the shadow of Saturn
With statues and birds for my friends
Finding a home at the end of my days
Looking around I've only to say
I was the victim of a series of accidents
As are we all
 
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