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NASA to crash Galileo probe into Jupiter
USA Today ^
| 09/15/03
| Staff Writer
Posted on 09/15/2003 6:35:43 AM PDT by bedolido
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP)
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: galileo; jupiter; nasa
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To: theFIRMbss
That's OK. Whatever danger to humanity that would be posed by Jupiter going Chernobyl will be made up for by all the unbounded free energy that the new Magnetic Energy Generator will provide for us. Jacco van der Worp (the "physicist" who wrote the article you referenced)
tells us all about it.
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posted on
09/15/2003 8:08:35 AM PDT
by
inquest
(We are NOT the world)
To: ActionNewsBill
But I believe that in 2010 Jupiter's solification was caused by the monolith aliens with their godlike technology, not by humans.
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posted on
09/15/2003 8:12:56 AM PDT
by
inquest
(We are NOT the world)
To: bedolido
When the explorers from Europe came to the New World they brought Measles, Small Pox and a whole host of microbes and viruses to the natives. They also brought alcohol which had it's own disastrous effects. Now if this were to happen with space explorers coming to earth can you imagine the implications?
To: inquest
But I believe that in 2010 Jupiter's solification was caused by the monolith aliens with their godlike technology, not by humans. You're probably right....I haven't seen the movie for a while, but IIRC, that was the case.
To: inquest
But I believe that in 2010 Jupiter's solification was caused by the monolith aliens with their godlike technology, not by humans.Been awhile since I've seen 2001 or 2010. I always thought the monolith was just a symbol and Arthur C Clarke was trying to tell us we're not alone. I had to go back and read 2001 over (didn't bother with 2010) and still had no idea what he was trying to say. Both movies were dogs (great special effects for their times).
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posted on
09/15/2003 8:37:45 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: bedolido
To be honest, I never read the book. I was just going by the movie.
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posted on
09/15/2003 8:40:30 AM PDT
by
inquest
(We are NOT the world)
To: bedolido
NASA to crash Galileo probe into Jupiter Environmentalists protest...
To: inquest
the movie makers did the same to Carl Sagan's Contact. Great book. Dog of a movie.
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posted on
09/15/2003 8:46:04 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: Frank_Discussion
This mission started under Clinton. ;-) Actually, it started long, long, long before Clinton. Galileo was to be the next shuttle launch after Challenger. When Challenger blew up, many things got reshuffled.
To: MrsEmmaPeel
Picky, picky, picky... ;-)
It launched when, 1993, I think? That's what I meant, but you're right, it was a long time coming. And it's been a wonderful ship.
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posted on
09/15/2003 8:53:52 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: nuconvert
... what kind of microbes? Staph.
IIRC, one of the Apollos stripped an unmanned probe that had been there a while. The parts were found to have staph bacteria on them (surprise, surprise - "staph" is omnipresent on humans).
The scary part is that the bacteria was reactivated after all those years on the Moon.
I think NASA blamed the subcontractor on failing to properly (successfully?) sterilize the probe.
To: bedolido
NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo into Jupiter to avoid the possibility that the aging spacecraft could contaminate one of the planet's moons with hitchhiking microbes from Earth.What's more absurd? The waste of $1.5 billion for more pretty pictures of planets and useless analyses, OR concerns for the ecology of a planetary moon while turds float in the bay where I live?
To: CholeraJoe
"Women and minorities impacted most."LOL
To: inquest; ActionNewsBill; chimera; VadeRetro; PatrickHenry; RadioAstronomer; Physicist
>Whatever danger to humanity that would be posed by Jupiter going Chernobyl will be made up for by all the unbounded free energy that the new Magnetic Energy Generator will provide for us
Yes, but, now Masons
will control Baghdad and space!
The New World Order
will be completed,
and they can stop pretending
they're a breakfast club
and just come right out
to rule the world openly!
I guess this weekend
it all gets going!
(I bet that's why Disney stopped
new Kim Possibles...)
To: Consort
>Get ready for the
Million Jovian March on Washington
To: theFIRMbss
Pigs in Space!!!
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posted on
09/15/2003 9:25:44 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: F16Fighter
bookmark
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posted on
09/15/2003 9:25:49 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
To: bedolido
The Kid will fight back, you'll see!
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posted on
09/15/2003 9:28:11 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Boss, I forgot to bring my tag line!)
To: Calvin Locke
"staph"
Well, staph can get out of hand......(and into your eye, and under your skin, and into your blood, etc)
Wonder if there's anything else they're not telling us?
Secret cargo, perhaps?
To: Jonah Hex
strawberry? With acidophilus?
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