Posted on 06/29/2004 1:05:21 PM PDT by demlosers
There were RTGs on the Apollo missions as well. RTGs do not pose a danger. I am looking forward to this mission. :-)
It's already returning some really spectacular pics.
I was one of the people "Freeping" the anti-Cassini folks in front of the White House back before it launched. It's very gratifying to see it so close to orbit insertion.
Whoooooohoooooo! Good for you. :-)
I thank you for helping to save the mission. :-))))
bttt
"There are issues," Sagan wrote of the pending Galileo launch, "including nuclear winter . . . greenhouse warming, depletion of the ozone layer, AIDS, social and economic injustice, and the world population crisis, where the combination of probability and consequence are enormously more dangerous than for Galileo's plutonium. I would like to urge everyone concerned about the Galileo [nuclear-powered batteries] . . . to devote a proportionate amount of passion, wisdom and hard work to those activities (and inactivities) that really jeopardize the human family."
LOL! Sagan was such a goofball hippy!
Go Cassini! Can’t wait for more pictures.
I can't help but still like Sagan, lefty slant notwithstanding. He had a singular talent for expressing hard science in a soft, but still acccurate way. His political and cultural blindspots were legion, more's the pity.
Bump!
I remember the handwringing about the potential danger from the Galileo probe's plutonium if it were to hit the earth during the swing-by. We escaped that danger but instead must bear the guilt of polluting Jupiter's atmosphere with plutonium. Oh, the humanity!
You might find this amusing now, but when the Jovian death saucers appear in our skies, your mirth will soon come to an end.
Are you involved in any of the Cassini activities in Boulder?
Ah, shucks, I thought it read NASCAR runs rings around Saturns.
Definitely deserves a Bump for US engineering and science.
Sagan was excellent until he rotted his mind with pot.
So I reckon it will be something more visually interesting than static, chaos, randomness, and the like. Something for the eye to perceive. Something containing/communicating information to assess. But no intelligence or design or combination of the two. No way. Accidents do happen after all, and really big ones.
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