I only post this because I find it interesting that something man used 17000 years ago will protect cutting edge space technology while it studies the sun.
FYI, The Mars Science laboratory doesn't have zip ties holding it's cables in a bundle, but knots used by the the Greeks in the first century AD.
To: 12th_Monkey
Carbon rules! (on Earth, anyway)
2 posted on
02/14/2014 1:51:30 PM PST by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: 12th_Monkey
Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
3 posted on
02/14/2014 1:58:08 PM PST by
wally_bert
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To: 12th_Monkey
The robust substance traditionally made from burned bones... Calling Obamacare death panels...
To: 12th_Monkey
"...when it flies as closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it."
Such journalists are brought to us by the politically correct business, academic and political leaders of the debt regime.
5 posted on
02/14/2014 2:13:40 PM PST by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: 12th_Monkey
Why don’t they just fly it around the Sun at night?
/s
6 posted on
02/14/2014 3:25:30 PM PST by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: 12th_Monkey
To: 12th_Monkey
8 posted on
02/14/2014 3:46:07 PM PST by
BenLurkin
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To: 12th_Monkey
Cool post... thanks for sharing.
17 posted on
02/15/2014 11:04:43 AM PST by
GOPJ
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