SHHH! THEY'LL HEAR YOU!
Posted on 07/24/2005 12:59:59 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Why does New Scientist call this a Spy Satellite? Its just a terestrial surveyer. Spying is looking at stuff someone else does not want you to see.
Desk size resolution is not that great. You can bust up a lot of landers on sub-desk sized bolders.
SHHH! THEY'LL HEAR YOU!
I'll believe it when it is actually in orbit collecting data. Anyone want to give odds on whether it just becomes very expensive space junk? Missions to Mars don't have a very good success rate.
So far, no sign of the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...
Sound files also returned...
Strange sounds... could it be important?
We need more information...
What's the point of it all? We should turn the moon into a giant satellite station instead if we want to throw money away. We could build it with big, expensive remote controlled toys.
At least it won't fall out of orbit if we neglect it for a while, and taxpayers can at least view the colossal waste of their tax dollars with a cheap Wal-Mart telescope.
Rep Sheila Jackson-Stupid (D-TX) begs to differ.
"HiRISE
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment or HiRISE camera will consist of a 0.5 metre reflecting telescope, the largest of any deep space mission, and has a resolution of 0.3 metre at a height of 300 km. It will image in three colour bands, blue-green, red and near infrared.
To facilitate the mapping of potential landing sites, HiRISE can produce stereo pairs of images from which the topography can be measured to an accuracy of 0.25 metre."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter#HiRISE
The bottom line: humans civilization expanding though out space.
what do you mean by satellite station?
Are you kidding? Desk sized resolution is great at 300 KM.
No doubt about it. Every time one our sats. gets close; bam! Gone; scratching head time at NASA.
No doubt it will crash, not signal, be destroyed for some unseen reason...but, you still have to try..
Yeah, great for sure. Desks the size of 10 inch 7/11 Big Gulp sodas.
Cool! IMAX
So that's where the "Huge Spy" is hiding?
Can you imagine what "they" are going to do with all that money we are sending to the red planet?
And here we thought we had spent just about all of it lining the pockets of Halliburton in Iraq!
And they think we are gullible.
"The bottom line: humans civilization expanding though out space."
Correct, just as humanity has done since we crawled up on land. It's in our nature to explore and expand. Please pardon my tinfoil hat on this subject but I can help but wonder if "they" know something about Mars that they arent telling "us".
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