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Mars explorer glides into perfect orbit
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Posted on 03/11/2006 5:17:55 PM PST by xcamel
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:17:56 PM PST
by
xcamel
To: xcamel
This is so great. We really have some brilliant minds to create and navigate this project. I'm in awe!
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:19:44 PM PST
by
NordP
(I've seen enough "24" to know there are many things a President cannot talk about, yet must do.)
To: xcamel
Very cool; looking forward to the data.
In another 2,000 years, assuming they discover electricity, Moslems might be able to do this, unless one of them blows the thing up first.
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:21:51 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Hank Rearden
Mars explorer glides into perfect orbit The problem it, it's orbiting Venus!
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:28:42 PM PST
by
The Duke
To: RightWhale; RadioAstronomer
Nice job!
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:32:11 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: The Duke
The problem it, it's orbiting Venus! That little Metric/English bugaboo reappears, huh?
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:39:52 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Hank Rearden
That little Metric/English bugaboo reappears, huh? I measure everything in centipedes and millipedes. I used to use inch-worms, but it took too damn long.
To: xcamel
Get to the important part.
Sheila Jackson Lee wants to know if they will photograph the flag the astronauts left?
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:48:59 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(“Don't approach a Bull from the front, a Horse from the rear, or a Fool from any side.”)
To: xcamel
``I am very relieved. It was perfect,'' said Mr. Graf. ``We couldn't have planned it better,'' he added, pointing out that the probe had reappeared from the dark side of Mars within a second of when it was expected. This is exciting! Cant wait for the pictures to start streaming back!
To: operation clinton cleanup
I dont know the exact plans, but at the moment, this "perfect orbit" is highly eliptical, kinda useless. The plan is to slowly use "aerobraking" to circularize the orbit, they expect it to take 6 months. Sometime around November we should start getting good stuff.
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:10:48 PM PST
by
Paradox
(".. and remove all doubt.")
To: Paradox
From what little I read, that circular orbit seems to be the lowest so far... sounds pretty risky, but the payoff could be sweet!
To: operation clinton cleanup
When they start using the 20" camera they will be able to resolve objects a foot across. That is, a pixel will be one foot, which is strictly speaking not a resolution of one foot, but it's in the ballpark. That should be enough to end the controversy about artificial structures (are all structures artificial?) one way or the other.
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:27:32 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: operation clinton cleanup
Okay... If they start taking photos of the Pyramids of Cydonia, shoot the damned thing down!
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:32:48 PM PST
by
Bender2
(Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often)
To: Southack
Yeah. Now, if our leaders can hold the world together long enough to start getting some of that tremendous data.
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:35:21 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
This may resolve (in both meanings of the word) the "Face on Mars," but I doubt it will ever resolve (in yet a third meaning of the word) the "Pimple on Uranus".....
;-)
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posted on
03/11/2006 6:37:19 PM PST
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
To: Bender2; RightWhale
Perhaps the age old mystery of the Martian Pentagon will be resolved...
To: Larry Lucido
I measure everything in centipedes and millipedes. I used to use inch-worms, but it took too damn long. My speedometer is calibrated in Furlongs/Fortnight. Makes my car seem really, really fast.
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posted on
03/11/2006 7:10:33 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: NordP
Yeah, but I am sure the Islamic world is working on one that will easily eclipse our technology.
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To: The Duke
Mars explorer glides into perfect orbit The problem it, it's orbiting Venus!
Delta Airlines is running the program?
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posted on
03/11/2006 7:16:44 PM PST
by
Pistolshot
(Condi 2008.<------added January 2004. Remember you heard it here first)
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