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50 Years of Space Exploration (Large Graphic)
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Posted on 10/11/2009 12:30:02 AM PDT by Dallas59
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: exploration; space
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Enjoy!
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posted on
10/11/2009 12:30:02 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Who can spot the mistake? an error of nomenclature. It jumped right out at me.
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posted on
10/11/2009 12:46:18 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
Certainly - Voyager should obviously be V’ger! Silly carbon based life forms.
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posted on
10/11/2009 1:36:47 AM PDT
by
Jeff F
(austinaero; Phoenix11; WaterBoard)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
10/11/2009 1:45:09 AM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: Jeff F
Noooo no no no no. A real mistake. A lulu by my lights.
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posted on
10/11/2009 1:45:58 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
I double checked. Always post first then check later, that’s my motto. Well, I survived this time. The error is as I perceived it.
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posted on
10/11/2009 1:56:23 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Dallas59
I just know some race is going to find Voyager one day. And decipher the message then the first thought that's going to jump through their minds is, snack.
To: dr_lew
Mercury’s orbit is too small to scale on to the drawing.
To: Born to Conserve
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posted on
10/11/2009 2:24:25 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: BigCinBigD
I can see a world filled with peace and harmony, where war is unknown, and I can see us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it. - Jack Handey
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posted on
10/11/2009 2:31:09 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: dr_lew
The mistake? I see several:
- First off, there were a total of 36 moon mission failures. The first 4 NASA missions failed. After Pioneer IV, the subsequent 7 NASA missions failed.
- Secondly, the graphic seems to intimate that ALL of the Mars missions were successful. The first 5 missions to Mars failed; the second NASA mission, Mariner IV was successful. 16 missions to Mars failed in total. And I don't think there's been 40 missions to Mars yet.
Missions list - Planetery and Space Science Center (University New Brunswick, CA)
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posted on
10/11/2009 2:55:45 AM PDT
by
raygun
(Where's MY noble piss prize?)
To: dr_lew
I don’t think NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eris.
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posted on
10/11/2009 3:01:22 AM PDT
by
raygun
(Where's MY noble piss prize?)
To: Dallas59
Bottom right: Isn’t all space interstellar?
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posted on
10/11/2009 3:01:29 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: dr_lew
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posted on
10/11/2009 3:39:57 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(No To O)
To: dr_lew
I have the feeling, if mankind ever does get out in the Universe. WE would be the Klingons. ;o)
To: BigCinBigD
Or worse......
Kingons!
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posted on
10/11/2009 3:52:32 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(BACON!!)
To: uglybiker
LOL.
We’ve come to eat burgers and enslave your planet...And we’re all out of burgers.
To: uglybiker
To: BigCinBigD
I figure space travelers came to Earth, arriving in the early morning, pre-dawn, hours. They grabbed the first two Earthlings they saw, a cop and an ER doc, to examine and determine what kind of place Earth was. After looking into their brains and seeing nothing but crime and sickness and injury they erased the Earthling's memory of the event and quietly slipped back into interstellar space, figuring this was one planet they could do without.
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posted on
10/11/2009 8:54:45 AM PDT
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America, and wake us up while you're about it!)
To: raygun
That's it. It was
Eros. Easy to confuse Love with Discord, perhaps. The number is wrong too.
I found this mission to be particularly fascinating, and I followed it closely.
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posted on
10/11/2009 10:41:53 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
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