Come and get it!
Posted on 12/16/2010 10:38:08 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Thirty years ago, NASA scientists noticed that two of their spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, were veering off course slightly, as if subject to a mysterious, unknown force. In 1998, the wider scientific community got wind of that veering—termed the Pioneer anomaly—and took aim at it with incessant, mind-blowingly detailed scrutiny that has since raised it to the physics equivalent of cult status. Now, though, after spawning close to 1000 academic papers, numerous international conferences, and many entire scientific careers, this beloved cosmic mystery may be on its way out.
Slava Turyshev, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., and Viktor Toth, a Canada-based software developer, plan to publish the results of their strikingly comprehensive new analysis of the Pioneer anomaly in the next few months. Their work is likely to bring a conclusion to one of the longest and most tumultuous detective stories of modern astrophysics.
NASA launched Pioneer 10 in the spring of 1972 and Pioneer 11 one year later. The spacecraft's joint mission was to gather information about the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn (in the case of Pioneer 11), and their moons. As they hurtled past those various celestial objects, the probes measured previously unknown properties of their atmospheres and surfaces; they also photographed Jupiter’s Red Spot and Saturn’s rings up close for the first time. Then, after completing their "flyby" missions in the mid-1970s, the Pioneers kept going. Carrying identical plaques depicting a man and a woman, the atomic transition of hydrogen, and the location of our planet within the galaxy—a message to aliens—the probes became the first manmade objects ever to plunge beyond the solar system into the inconceivable cold and dark of interstellar space
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
I hope any future spacecraft that are being sent out past our solar system states that Obama was an usurper and failed to qualify to be POTUS.
Just a bit of snarky humor for the closet liberal posters here at FR.
And birthers become national heros all across America, songs are created, statues built, new schools named in honor of the bravest birthers.
And of course all the syndicated TV birther shows.
I don’t think they actually “solved” the anomaly. They just wrote a 200 page article discussing various possible causes.
The original road map was broadcast in August of 1945 with subsequent larger and larger maps broadcast over the following 20 odd years. If ET is relatively close by and was listening all doubt about our location was removed long before the Pioneer spacecraft were ever launched......
It's no big deal, they already had crop circles.
Come and get it!
My favorite part: “After decades spent thinking, arguing, hoping, and in the words of Turyshev, “making a career off of it,”...”
But then, I’m biased.
Awesome movie. :) I liked Ming’s wedding vows to Dale as well.
Personally, I would have depicted the female to possess 3 breasts, like the mutant prostitute in Total Recall. You know, just to shake things up a little. For all we know, the aliens have 24 breasts, and consider us pikers.
Why aren’t the eggheads ever named, “John Smith” or “Ben Dover”? Their names are always something foreign, intricate and smart sounding.
Yeah, and a copy of the menu to the "All they can eat buffet".
Kurt Waldheim should have added the following to the bottom of the plaque:
“Eat more chikin”
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To Serve Man
They need these names to feed their IQ and egos
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