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To: Abathar

The little guys just keep chugging along don’t they?


3 posted on 07/03/2008 6:41:07 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehrling

Must have a Slant 6 engine in those buggers.


5 posted on 07/03/2008 6:45:00 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (There is a special place in Hell for Lyndon Johnson.)
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To: mnehrling

Like Timex watches - They take a licking and keep on ticking.


6 posted on 07/03/2008 6:49:20 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: mnehrling

To bad the engineers didn’t quit NASA and work for GM...


8 posted on 07/03/2008 7:00:49 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: mnehrling
NASA engineers estimate that both probes' plutonium power packs have the potential to keep them broadcasting data until 2025.

A feature NASA can no longer design into a space probe because it might crash on launch and scatter chunks of plutonium everywhere. Even though the one on the Apollo 13 lunar ascent module crashed into the Indian Ocean at 26,000 MPH with nary a trace of radioactive release.

14 posted on 07/03/2008 8:50:06 AM PDT by no-s
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