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Probe crashes into Moon's surface (Smart 1)
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| 3 Sep 06
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Posted on 09/02/2006 11:16:44 PM PDT by saganite
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:16:45 PM PDT
by
saganite
To: saganite
Guess it wasn't that smart...
That was just too easy.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:23:18 PM PDT
by
farlander
(Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
To: saganite
Professor Grande has been principal investigator on one of Smart's miniaturised instruments: the compact
Professor Grande works on miniature stuff...
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:24:47 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: saganite
Cleanup on aisle seven...
4
posted on
09/02/2006 11:26:24 PM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: The Electrician
"Smart 1 will now rest in peace on the Moon," said Professor Foing. Or, in pieces, maybe...
These jokes just write themselves, huh...
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:27:57 PM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: The Electrician
Yep, as I said, it's too damn easy. I mean... the odds of a complete mission failure are pretty high on these kind of things. So, one would *think* these guys would think about naming these things in way/writing about it that it wouldn't be like shootin' fish in the barrel disparaging their 'provess'.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:30:46 PM PDT
by
farlander
(Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
To: saganite
Euro weenies polluting the moon with debris.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:31:15 PM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(Time to eradicated islambs and mooselimbs! GO PTSC)
To: US_MilitaryRules
Euro weenies polluting the moon with debris.
or altering the Moons magnetic pull
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:37:40 PM PDT
by
daku
("Behold this creature that walks like a man. It wants ketchup on its hot dog.")
To: farlander
They actually programmed it to crash into the moon at the completion of a completely successful mission.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:39:56 PM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: saganite
The impact was expected to leave a 3m by 10m crater on the Moon's surface. "As planned, Smart 1 has landed," said Professor Bernard Foing, the mission's project scientist from the European Space Agency (Esa). Let me get this straight, a "landing" leaves a crater on the moon. If that's the case than we haven't had many airplane crashes.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:45:37 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: taxesareforever
The probe was never intended to "land" on the moon. Chalk that poor choice of words up to bad reporting or misinterpretation. ESA decided to use the last of it's fuel at the end of it's mission to crash the probe onto the moon. The mission was a total unqualified success.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:56:47 PM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: saganite
Sure it was a success, this was all done because this probe had evidence the moon landings never happened so Karl Rove arranged it so it would crash into the moon.
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posted on
09/02/2006 11:58:14 PM PDT
by
LukeL
To: LukeL
Karl is busy with the hurricane machine. Must've been Cheney, the sorcerer's apprentice.
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posted on
09/03/2006 12:00:17 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: saganite
"The mission was a total unqualified success."
They can go to the moon but their telephoto lenses still need some work.
yitbos
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posted on
09/03/2006 12:12:44 AM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds. " - Ayn Rand)
To: bruinbirdman
Where'd you get those pics?
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posted on
09/03/2006 12:15:31 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: US_MilitaryRules
Euro weenies polluting the moon with debris.They've still got a long way to go before they catch up with the volume left behind by six LEMs. Not to mention that only one country has cluttered the lunar surface with all those footprints and flags (and the occasional golf ball).
To: ReignOfError
As one of my aquaintances from Romania who defected to the US said when asked why he did it. "I wanted to live in the only country on Earth who had taken a $#!+ on the moon. I guess that about sums it up.
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posted on
09/03/2006 12:27:28 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: taxesareforever
Let me get this straight, a "landing" leaves a crater on the moon. If that's the case than we haven't had many airplane crashes.But we had a whole lot of unmanned aerial devices that made successful "landings" in Iraq.
Smart 1 successfully finished its mission, the last act of which was to hit as hard and kick up as much ejecta as possible. If it kicked enough dust where the right instruments could see it, a lot of good science could come out of that impact. Don't forget, NASA sent a probe out for the sole purpose of smacking into a comet at full speed, which it did.
To: saganite
If anyone comes across photo's of ground telescopes detecting the crash let me know!
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posted on
09/03/2006 12:32:05 AM PDT
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: saganite
"
Europe's lunar satellite, the Smart 1 probe, has ended its mission by crashing onto the Moon's surface"
Well, that wasn't very green of them.
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posted on
09/03/2006 1:34:11 AM PDT
by
Outland
(Socialism IS the enemy.)
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