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To: BenLurkin

That doesn’t sound right, maybe 26,000 miles?


5 posted on 01/28/2020 5:33:46 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

26 miles is well withing the sun’s corona.


11 posted on 01/28/2020 5:37:58 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If gun ownership by private citizens scares DemocRats, the 2nd Amendment is doing its job.)
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To: tet68

Actually its 26 million miles.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/new-views-of-sun-2-missions-will-go-closer-to-our-star-than-ever-before


17 posted on 01/28/2020 5:42:14 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If gun ownership by private citizens scares DemocRats, the 2nd Amendment is doing its job.)
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To: tet68

You’re right. Even 260,000 miles doesn’t sound realistic.


19 posted on 01/28/2020 5:42:39 PM PST by reintarnation (not a noob, i just change my identity over the years...)
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To: tet68

then finish off with bypass within 26 of the sun.


From the article. Remember when you elementary teacher made you label your numbers?

Reporting these days is atrocious.


20 posted on 01/28/2020 5:42:46 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: tet68

26 miles.. not likely.. that’d singe the old cat’s whiskers and then some. that must be some shield


41 posted on 01/28/2020 6:10:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! The UN is so olf and dated.)
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To: tet68

26 miles is impossible. That would be at the surface where the temperature is some 10,000 degrees F. Titanium won’t handle that kind of temperature.


47 posted on 01/28/2020 6:16:46 PM PST by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: tet68

Yea, I’m thinking the same thing....the figures can’t be right.


79 posted on 01/28/2020 7:45:01 PM PST by caww
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