Posted on 11/03/2010 5:56:31 PM PDT by KevinDavis
At an aerospace facility in Denver, Colorado, engineers are busy attaching scientific instruments to NASA's next mission to Jupiter, which is set for launch in less than a year. But team members on the billion-dollar Juno mission are quietly talking about slipping something extra onto the spacecraft — a tiny fragment of bone from Galileo Galilei.
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Today is Jim Robinsons’ birthday..If you haven’t donated to FR, today would be a good day to give.
As many of you know, I have no religion but I don’t like this! It gives me a very unsettled feeling and somehow I think the Kama here is all wrong.
Cool.
Its also cool the NASA site keeps tabs on future missions.
Cool! I think it’s cool that some 368 years after his death Galileo finally gets to see it for himself. You go, Gal !!
Very symbolic as NASA will soon be bones.
So, let me get this straight. We could have TWO of these missions for the price of Obama's trip to India?
Anyone want to do a cost/benefit analysis of Obama's "mission" versus this Jupiter probe?
We could just send 0bama to Jupiter for much less than it would cost for him to travel to India on a plane.
LOL .. Love your solution. It's not only fiscally conservative (saves 50%!), but it's also the patriotic choice.
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