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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Makes 2nd Daring Flyby of the Sun
Space.com ^
| 04/05/2019
| Meghan Bartels
Posted on 04/05/2019 7:58:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
04/05/2019 7:58:26 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The radio silence is designed to let the spacecraft focus on keeping its instruments tucked safely behind the thick shield that protects them from the incredible heat of the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.Right. This is a government space mission. The radio silence is just another way for the Trump administration to withhold information from a Congress whose job it is to provide oversight of the government! (/Nadler)
To: BenLurkin
I wonder if they’ll figure out if that “sun” thingy has anything to do with our climate? (do I really need the sarcasm tag?)
To: BenLurkin
Hope we can land on the sun someday (obviously it would have to be at night).
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04/05/2019 8:20:39 AM PDT
by
scottinoc
To: BenLurkin
The researchers hope to use that data to better understand the corona, where temperatures reach millions of degrees in Fahrenheit and Celsius alike. Maybe that data might convince some of the mostly brain dead liberals that the sun causes the earth to warm, not humans driving their SUVs.
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:21:44 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:24:36 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: scottinoc
Just land on its pole. It’s colder there, right?
To: BenLurkin
A “daring” inanimate object?
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04/05/2019 8:38:28 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: Larry Lucido
Land on a sunspot. It’s not as bright, and much much cooler.
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:39:25 AM PDT
by
C210N
(You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
To: scottinoc
You’re not allowed to post that without a picture of AOC.
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:39:31 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: scottinoc
Journey to the far side of the sun.
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:47:37 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: MrEdd
AOC: “Would it work if you just close your eyes real tight?”
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:48:44 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: BenLurkin
"I hope they did it at night!"
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posted on
04/05/2019 8:51:47 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
To: scottinoc
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04/05/2019 9:01:26 AM PDT
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cgbg
(Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
To: BenLurkin
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04/05/2019 9:27:11 AM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(My sister said the only thing that did not was the clock. GE has spare parts)
To: Dad was my hero
I wonder if theyll figure out if that sun thingy has anything to do with our climate?Nah! The solar wind has no effect Earth's climate. It only interferes with communication and navigation satellites in orbit around Earth.
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04/05/2019 10:04:40 AM PDT
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Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: fieldmarshaldj; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. 213,200 mph is really haulin', over 59 miles a second, wowzo.
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04/05/2019 10:14:29 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: BenLurkin
This probe is named in honor of the great astrophysicist Eugene Paker. I spent a week with him at a conference once. Unique in this sordid profession of physics, Eugene is a true gentleman in every sense of the word.
Prolly a sign of white privilege or something, but people like him remind you of what we lose when we abandoned national standards of civilized behavior.
To: BenLurkin
Hope it has AC. A window unit should work just fine.
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posted on
04/05/2019 2:19:18 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Global warming is AWESOME!)
To: BenLurkin
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04/05/2019 9:16:47 PM PDT
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Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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