1 posted on
01/28/2020 5:30:57 PM PST by
BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
2 posted on
01/28/2020 5:31:42 PM PST by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: BenLurkin
What could possibly go wrong?
3 posted on
01/28/2020 5:33:12 PM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: BenLurkin
That doesn’t sound right, maybe 26,000 miles?
5 posted on
01/28/2020 5:33:46 PM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BenLurkin
I hope NASA has good insurance.
6 posted on
01/28/2020 5:34:46 PM PST by
EvilCapitalist
(If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
To: BenLurkin
The heat must be incredible.
8 posted on
01/28/2020 5:36:17 PM PST by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: BenLurkin
If the vehicle is totally encased in a heat shield, how will it be able to transmit data back our direction?
10 posted on
01/28/2020 5:37:21 PM PST by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be take countryn that's fore sure)
To: BenLurkin
This will not turn out well.
To: BenLurkin
What is 26 miles even? There is no distinct border of the sun. It undulates and seethes like a boiling pot.
The number is most likely to be 26 MILLION miles. At 26 miles, it’s a fair bit hotter than 900 degrees. The temperature is around 10,000 degrees at that range.
21 posted on
01/28/2020 5:42:57 PM PST by
Malsua
To: BenLurkin
Gee, you mean they couldn’t buy a titanium heat shield for a solar observatory satellite off the shelf? Who knew?
23 posted on
01/28/2020 5:43:54 PM PST by
cyclotic
(Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
To: BenLurkin
So it is somehow going to be going fast enough to just buzz the Sun, and not get pulled in by it’s massive gravitational pull?
24 posted on
01/28/2020 5:44:06 PM PST by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
To: BenLurkin
There is no way it can get 26 miles from the sun without falling into the sun. I don’t think.
To: BenLurkin
Your gonna’ get something only 26M away without it melting? Really?
26 posted on
01/28/2020 5:44:52 PM PST by
Bullish
(Covfefe Happens)
To: BenLurkin
27 posted on
01/28/2020 5:45:06 PM PST by
Beowulf9
To: BenLurkin
It is 26 million miles/ 42 million km on closest approach, not 26 miles.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-mission-sun-poles.html
To: BenLurkin
I hope they slathered that thing with sun block.
44 posted on
01/28/2020 6:12:21 PM PST by
LIConFem
(I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
To: BenLurkin
Speaking as an engineer and a mathematician I think this is ridiculous. How can we get any spacecraft that close to the sun????
I worked for Fairchild Space Company, now merged with Martin Marietta. I worked on top secret Navy satellites. We built those them tough as sh*t. But I know damn well right they would not stand up within 26 miles of the the Sun. This reporter has to be nuts.
46 posted on
01/28/2020 6:15:36 PM PST by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
To: BenLurkin
Interesting.
Currently, the Parker Solar Probe is already closer than that to the Sun.
The last update at the
Parker Solar Probe site has this probe at 11,675,969 miles from the Sun moving along at 243,562 mph. It's primary heat shield is currently registering 1,128.8°F.
The probe is getting closer by the minute.
49 posted on
01/28/2020 6:19:36 PM PST by
Pox
(Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
To: BenLurkin
After the mission NASA will release a report that Sun only has a few years left because of global warming...
50 posted on
01/28/2020 6:21:01 PM PST by
shotgun
To: BenLurkin
“We get signal!”
“What it say?”
“Poof!”
51 posted on
01/28/2020 6:22:00 PM PST by
W.
(Hey, beer!)
To: BenLurkin
Isn’t it millions of degrees in the Sun’s corona?
52 posted on
01/28/2020 6:22:03 PM PST by
EEGator
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