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Fastest-Ever Spacecraft to Arrive at Jupiter Tonight
Space.com ^
| July 4, 2016 07:00am ET
| Mike Wall,
Posted on 07/04/2016 9:03:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:03:54 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
165,000 mph (265,000 km/h) relative to Earth,
So, how fast is it going relative to the Sun?
Proxima Centauri?? Yo mama?
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:09:18 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: BenLurkin
The Denver news stations had reporters outside Lockheed Martin this morning, but none mentioned the record speed. They did mention the ‘brakes’ to enter orbit.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:14:17 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
To: BenLurkin
which is 0.000246 c
Still can’t even think about going to the Alpha Centauri.
To: BenLurkin
I hope they remembered to roll up the windows.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:19:43 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: BenLurkin
Isn’t the headline a bit misleading?
Juno will reach those speeds for sure, but only because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter, not of its own propulsion.
Still, it’ll be mighty interesting to see what we can learn from this probe.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:20:02 AM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: BenLurkin
Everything I needed to know about Jupiter I found in these text books hidden in my Father's garage
To: BenLurkin
But can it make the Kessel run in under 12 parses?
To: Donglalinger
And those space cones are fully functional!
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:26:36 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(If Trump loses, America dies)
To: Hugh the Scot
To: BenLurkin
Hope this isn’t one of those NASA half-asteroid missions. ;-) Hope everything works okay. I remember, as a small child, getting up early (on the west coast) to watch on an old b&w TV NASA launching the Mercury astronauts, from Alan Shepard to Gordon Cooper.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:27:08 AM PDT
by
r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
To: BenLurkin
...an estimated top speed of about 165,000 mph (265,000 km/h) relative to Earth, mission team members said.That's traveling almost as fast as one of the media's lies about Trump!
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:28:32 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
To: Hugh the Scot
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:28:40 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hugh the Scot
Nobody can, because parsec is a measure of angular separation, not of time. That has always annoyed me.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:31:45 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Donglalinger
Space suits aren’t what they used to be.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:33:11 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Romulus
Yep, just like a light year is a measure of distance, not time.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:35:53 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
To: BenLurkin
I hope that there are no speed traps in the vicinity.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:35:59 AM PDT
by
monocle
(agents)
To: Donglalinger
Space suits aren’t what they used to be.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:37:00 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Romulus
That used to bug me, too, but there is an explanation. In the Star Wars fictional universe, the Kessel run involves going through an area with a cluster of black holes that warp space. Depending on the path through the cluster, the distance differs. Only a really powerful hyperdrive permits one to take the shorter paths without getting sucked into a black hole. Thus, the distance for the Kessel run is shorthand for how powerful your ship’s hyperdrive is.
Not sure if this is cannon though.
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posted on
07/04/2016 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
To: Romulus
Geek more. The boast was more about maneuverability and pilot skill than speed. Once you throw in hyperspace-jumps, it all becomes too silly to be annoying.
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