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Failed 1970s Venus Probe Could Crash to Earth This Year
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Posted on 02/25/2019 7:38:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:38:40 AM PST
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:39:02 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It will fall burning like a silver flame...
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:45:50 AM PST
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MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: BenLurkin
Someone, please post the iconic image from "The Six-Million-Dollar Man."
Regards,
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:46:44 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: mad_as_he$$
My best recollection is that a returning, failed, Venus probe spacecraft was what set off the revival of corpses in the original Night of the Living Dead film. If so, dont say I never warned you.
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:51:28 AM PST
by
desertsolitaire
(M.O.O.N. that spells SCARY.)
To: BenLurkin
So the Venetians have been waiting for their package for 47 years?
Danged Amazon package thieves. Robbing the Venetians blind!
To: MrEdd
Yeah, baby, you've got it.
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:55:53 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Mr. and Mrs. Edd are in a stable relationship.)
To: BenLurkin; Moonman62; ETL
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posted on
02/25/2019 7:56:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: mad_as_he$$
Nuclear powered?
Most Russian craft of that era were.
To: desertsolitaire
To: BenLurkin
This has the potential to be a great SciFi movie. IMHO
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:08:35 AM PST
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
To: mad_as_he$$
If this was indeed a failed Venera probe, then it was not nuclear powered.
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:20:52 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Luckily, the Venera probes were not nuclear powered. The orbiters were solar-powered, and the landers used battery power for their very short missions.
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:24:59 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: BenLurkin; dfwgator
But Cosmos 482 got stranded in an Earth parking orbit... Still adrift around Earth, making one lap every 112 minutes You got us into this parking lot pal now you get us out.
You want out of this parking lot....OK
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:27:30 AM PST
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Ezekiel
(The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
To: BenLurkin
Spacecraft
Lander
big enough to mess up your car if it hits...
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:28:48 AM PST
by
ASOC
(Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
To: Army Air Corps
Good to know! But is it really what they say it is?
With such an elliptical orbit looks like it would stand a good chance of getting slingshotted out of earth’s orbit....
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:29:13 AM PST
by
TnTnTn
To: mad_as_he$$
But is it really what they say it is?
That is actually a good question, seeing as how the USSR denied knowledge of the launch. "Rocket? what rocket?" When pieces of the rocket descended upon New Zealand (Ashburton balls incident), examination revealed that the pieces were obviously of Soviet origin. The USSR denied that the fragments were theirs or that they had even launched the thing. It is generally accepted that Cosmos 482 is a failed Venera probe.
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posted on
02/25/2019 8:36:54 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Ezekiel
This mall has everything.
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02/25/2019 8:39:33 AM PST
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Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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