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spud posted:This is really cool too. Gonna spend the rest of my evening learning stuff about jupiter and Io. I would have liked to do space stuff, but once I had to start doing algebra in high school I realised it wasn't for me. Like if I can't calculate how many fence panels Farmer John needs to cover an area of 500m square, I sure as hell can't work out space rocket stuff. e: Outrail posted:The fact that every spaceship isn't a radiation spewing orion platform makes me sad.   Take this thing for a jaunt around Jupiter. Elukka fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Outrail posted:The fact that every spaceship isn't a radiation spewing orion platform makes me sad. I wonder why they didn't go with a RTG for power.
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etalian posted:I wonder why they didn't go with a RTG for power.
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oh man this is some exciting poo poo. glad we get to invade Saturn with our spaceships for a change.
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Prettz posted:Not enough plutonium was left.  This was a interesting article. http://www.wired.com/2013/09/plutonium-238-problem/ A lemons into lemonade sort of outcome was how due to the material shortage, NASA put in a good amount of effort into building a better RTG. Of course even with a good design qual testing for some of newer concepts will delay them from being used. etalian fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Jul 4, 2016 19:59
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I'm pretty sure that if it took 3 years for a mission to Jupiter, everyone would probably kill each other or suicide by the time they were 2 years of the way through
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Teikanmi posted:I'm pretty sure that if it took 3 years for a mission to Jupiter, everyone would probably kill each other or suicide by the time they were 2 years of the way through Didn't they have some people spend 2 years simulating a trip to mars
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Khorne posted:It doesn't matter if it's a gas cloud or a rock it weighs a lot and if you ignore what's on the inside it functions only kind of different from a big rock. Thanks, great explanation! spud posted:This is really cool too. Gonna spend the rest of my evening learning stuff about jupiter and Io. I would have liked to do space stuff, but once I had to start doing algebra in high school I realised it wasn't for me. Like if I can't calculate how many fence panels Farmer John needs to cover an area of 500m square, I sure as hell can't work out space rocket stuff. All 4 of jupiter's big moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) are rad in different ways. Hope you learn some cool poo poo.
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I've already seen Jupiter It's a bunch of gas, we get it boring poo poo, professors where are my aliens and space rock mining and moonbases you sonofabitch
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Jul 4, 2016 20:23
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Has the tin can transmitted any cool photos yet?
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Edgar posted:Has the tin can transmitted any cool photos yet? The visible camera is real poo poo. It's only there for publicity shots. Hubble is powerful enough that we don't really need to send spacecrafts to get good pictures.
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Germstore posted:The visible camera is real poo poo. It's only there for publicity shots. Hubble is powerful enough that we don't really need to send spacecrafts to get good pictures. Aren't they going to let the Hubble burn up
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Germstore posted:The visible camera is real poo poo. It's only there for publicity shots. Hubble is powerful enough that we don't really need to send spacecrafts to get good pictures. yeah taking pictures isn't one of the scientific objectives for this mission. it'll be way closer to the planet than any other craft has been so maybe we'll get a nice closeup though? idk
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Germstore posted:The visible camera is real poo poo. It's only there for publicity shots. Hubble is powerful enough that we don't really need to send spacecrafts to get good pictures. Science is lame if there is no 4k footage
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Aren't they going to let the Hubble burn up they'll be replacing it with a way better telescope in 2018
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maybe by 2318 we have sent other stuff than cameras up there, but probably not
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etalian posted:it's hippes fault the spacecraft uses solar panels instead of the more reliable RTG why do hippies care about polluting space? i though the voyager probes used radio isotopes, why would we go backwards?
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Aren't they going to let the Hubble burn up I think Hubble is gonna stay active until like 2025, there's a new one launching called the James Webb in 2018 that's gonna be able to smell alien farts in their atmospheres.
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Did they give it a selfie stick? Probably not, egghead NASA brains can't give the people what they want.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I think Hubble is gonna stay active until like 2025, there's a new one launching called the James Webb in 2018 that's gonna be able to smell alien farts in their atmospheres. More like the James Joyce Space Telescope.
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Rutibex posted:why do hippies care about polluting space? i though the voyager probes used radio isotopes, why would we go backwards?
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Some newer probes did also used RTGs but the main duel breaker was running out of reactor fuel. NASA is working on more efficient reactors but all the new designs are currently in flight qual testing.
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what if they see aliens swimming in the Jupiter clouds man that'd be fuckin nuts
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here's a fun jupiter fact that rhymes so you can remember it easier: girls are from jupiter that's why they're stupiter
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can't wait for close up pics of the peaceful cloud leviathans
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SniperWoreConverse posted:what if they see aliens swimming in the Jupiter clouds man that'd be fuckin nuts We already met them on the moon, there will be no new alien surprises. They let us launch juno in the first place.
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There are powerful IR cameras to look through to their cloud cities and maybe peep some alien titties. Expect some false color photos of alien boobs in the coming months.
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RatHat posted:That gif isn't in real time right? our modern probes can reach speeds approaching warp 3.2, back in the 70s they could only do warp 2 
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Rutibex posted:our modern probes can reach speeds approaching warp 3.2, back in the 70s they could only do warp 2 I was more asking if Jupiter's storms really rotate that fast.
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RatHat posted:I was more asking if Jupiter's storms really rotate that fast. that spot is about the size of earth. i dont think anything in the universe rotates that fast, except maybe pulsars
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Germstore posted:There are powerful IR cameras to look through to their cloud cities and maybe peep some alien titties. Expect some false color photos of alien boobs in the coming months. yessssssssssssssss nasa spectrally analyze dem nips
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Jupiter scares the poo poo out of me in some cosmic horror sort of way.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vlw-7N5Ps
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I bet Jupiter has some loving fire weed.
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Hopefully they bring back some of that sweet creamy tomato sauce that makes up Jupiter. I hear some regions are reminiscent of a bolognese! 
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Chief McHeath posted:I bet Jupiter has some loving fire weed. jupiters gravity is so dense that one of their dankest nugs can weigh as much as 10 thousand elephants!
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Jupiter scares the poo poo out of me in some cosmic horror sort of way. You've been selected to be fired into Jupiter's billowy embrace wearing a vintage 1980's spacesuit. The faceplate will most likely shatter a few kilometres after intersection with the cloud horizon. Your last few moments will be spent choking on thick noxious gasses while the streaming winds scrape open your eyes and whisper their frantic lullaby into your bleeding ears.
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