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sounds like poo poo will be back to normal some time today.some science dipshit posted:NASA’s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto. so we won't get as cool of an approach animation since it didn't take pictures for a few days, that's about it
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Crazy that thing only has 8 gigs of memory.
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Jul 6, 2015 19:25
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euphronius posted:Crazy that thing only has 8 gigs of memory. But is it DDR3 or GDDR5 and is there any on chip ESDRAM?
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Jul 6, 2015 19:28
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they build that poo poo to run on super low power and to withstand all the radiation and poo poo in space, its a bit different from regular computers, also was built more than a decade ago
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Jul 6, 2015 19:31
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How long until conspiracy nuts take this glitch as a sign that something needed suppressing ? also, could the probe detect a Jupiter mass planet/brown dwarf lurking in the Oort cloud ??
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Jul 6, 2015 19:32
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Decebal posted:How long until conspiracy nuts take this glitch as a sign that something needed suppressing ? thats probably too far away but idk
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Jul 6, 2015 19:34
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Decebal posted:also, could the probe detect a Jupiter mass planet/brown dwarf lurking in the Oort cloud ?? the hubble telescope could detect that, we don't need probes to find things the size of Jupiter lol
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Jul 6, 2015 19:38
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Rutibex posted:the hubble telescope could detect that, we don't need probes to find things the size of Jupiter lol since Hubble could barely make out Pluto I thought stuff that was farther away would be even harder to detect
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Jul 6, 2015 19:41
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they found malaysian airlines 370 and are hiding the evidence
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Jul 6, 2015 19:41
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Hey, has anyone ever mentioned (possibly even itt?) that maybe there is something out there that we're not meant to see? Man that would be spooky! Anyway, if not, I would like to be officially recognized for being the first to bring this up
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Jul 6, 2015 19:44
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I always wonder that if NASA did find some poo poo if they'd let us know right away or not. quote:Please be informed that there is a santa claus
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Jul 6, 2015 19:46
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Rutibex posted:
Well, hubble isn't particularly useful for that, but they used the WISE survey to rule out Jupiter sized objects out to 26,000 AU. Also, it was able to detect some very very cool brown dwarfs as far at 10 light years out so it would seem there isn't going to be a brown dwarf in the Oort cloud.
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Jul 6, 2015 19:48
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Decebal posted:since Hubble could barely make out Pluto I thought stuff that was farther away would be even harder to detect Pluto is small (smaller then then the Moon). Jupiter is very, very large. Like it reflects thousands of times more light.
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Jul 6, 2015 19:53
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Decebal posted:since Hubble could barely make out Pluto I thought stuff that was farther away would be even harder to detect i thought they where using Hubble to detect Jupiter sized planets around other stars? not detailed pictures of course, but enough to know if something is there
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Jul 6, 2015 19:55
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The Protagonist posted:I always wonder that if NASA did find some poo poo if they'd let us know right away or not. Of course not
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Jul 6, 2015 20:03
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Rutibex posted:i thought they where using Hubble to detect Jupiter sized planets around other stars? not detailed pictures of course, but enough to know if something is there that's the Kepler telescope
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Jul 6, 2015 20:11
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blugu64 posted:Of course not I mean thats my gut instinct too, but really in the context of say like curiosity spotting an isopod fossil or there being some obviously artificial feature of a distant dwarf planet, what real onus is there to conceal that?
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Jul 6, 2015 20:11
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Europa would have been a better target, but we get another 3 Mars missions instead  James Cameron already made a sub that goes really deep so the work is 50% done. Sure you can't 100% sterilize it, but gently caress dying without seeing what's under that ice for that stupid reason.
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Jul 6, 2015 20:16
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Decebal posted:Europa would have been a better target, but we get another 3 Mars missions instead nuts to sterilizing it, if there's no life in that ocean then there drat well will be when we're done with it  Decebal posted:that's the Kepler telescope
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Jul 6, 2015 20:20
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Yeah that would be the ideal next grand probe mission: sub-carrying nuclear melt probe lander twins to go to Europa and Enceladus respectively. Ceres can come too maybe in this fantasy universe.
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Jul 6, 2015 20:20
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I thought the melt probe idea was on of those "sounds nice, but isn't really feasible" things? Wouldn't the water behind the probe freeze and then we're trying to communicate through many kilometers of ice?
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Jul 6, 2015 20:34
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wilderthanmild posted:I thought the melt probe idea was on of those "sounds nice, but isn't really feasible" things? Wouldn't the water behind the probe freeze and then we're trying to communicate through many kilometers of ice? I always assumed there would be a fiber optic cable connecting it to the lander at all times. loving NASA do Europa already you lazy jerks 
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Jul 6, 2015 20:37
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wilderthanmild posted:I thought the melt probe idea was on of those "sounds nice, but isn't really feasible" things? Wouldn't the water behind the probe freeze and then we're trying to communicate through many kilometers of ice? i always figured the biggest challenge would be making the probe autonomous enough to function. the communication delay would be far to great for remote control, so they would need some kind of AI on the thing
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Jul 6, 2015 20:40
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^^^ Right, and there's a great deal of productive work already done on this. Gonna dig up a talk e; here https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space wilderthanmild posted:I thought the melt probe idea was on of those "sounds nice, but isn't really feasible" things? Wouldn't the water behind the probe freeze and then we're trying to communicate through many kilometers of ice? You'd lay out cable from the traveling end that could be frozen around. Not to say the whole operation wouldn't be the most technically complex mission ever, it definitely would, but that's just the nature of things. It's worth doing, but the cost could easily run barely shy of a manned mars mission which every idiot would pick over this. The Protagonist fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 20:41
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Environmentalists lose their poo poo over simple RTG's. Now try selling the public you are going to crash land a nuclear reactor and have it "china syndrome" through the surface in the place most likely to contain life in our solar system. I have no problem with nuclear power and i'm not sure i could support dropping dirty bombs on Europa. Still plenty left to explore without resorting to things that sound really expensive that we might regret later.
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Jul 6, 2015 20:49
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NihilismNow posted:Environmentalists lose their poo poo over simple RTG's. Now try selling the public you are going to crash land a nuclear reactor and have it "china syndrome" through the surface in the place most likely to contain life in our solar system. 
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Jul 6, 2015 20:51
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Decebal posted:also, could the probe detect a Jupiter mass planet/brown dwarf lurking in the Oort cloud ?? we'd know there was a jupiter mass in the theoretical oort cloud just from math
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Jul 6, 2015 20:52
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Decebal posted:I always assumed there would be a fiber optic cable connecting it to the lander at all times. gently caress you and your toy submarines....  e:
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Jul 6, 2015 20:53
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NihilismNow posted:Environmentalists lose their poo poo over simple RTG's. Now try selling the public you are going to crash land a nuclear reactor and have it "china syndrome" through the surface in the place most likely to contain life in our solar system. The Europa lander would have to more sterile than the Martian ones since the aqueous environment would be even more hospitable and a single microbe or virus left could potentially cause catastrophic contamination (or be the actual seed of life for that moon)
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Jul 6, 2015 20:53
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NihilismNow posted:Environmentalists lose their poo poo over simple RTG's. Now try selling the public you are going to crash land a nuclear reactor and have it "china syndrome" through the surface in the place most likely to contain life in our solar system. Sorry, but this is a stupid sentiment. And we launch RTGs without much issue, there was no public outcry about Curiosity possibly irradiating hypothetical germs on Mars. These are the best and most interesting places to explore and these are the tools we have to achieve it, the impact would be infinitesimal. As spurious as I think the concern is, biological cross contamination is a far greater possible danger to any possible life than the powersource for the probe.
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Jul 6, 2015 20:58
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NihilismNow posted:Environmentalists lose their poo poo over simple RTG's. Now try selling the public you are going to crash land a nuclear reactor and have it "china syndrome" through the surface in the place most likely to contain life in our solar system. The medium around Jupiter has the most intense radiation anywhere in the Solar system. A small nuclear reactor from earth wouldn't make much difference. Also, wouldn't all that rad. sterilize the lander ?
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Jul 6, 2015 21:03
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Decebal posted:The medium around Jupiter has the most intense radiation anywhere in the Solar system. A small nuclear reactor from earth wouldn't make much difference. Also, wouldn't all that rad. sterilize the lander ? Tardigrades might survive and we'd be setting ourselves up for an invasion in a few million years.
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Jul 6, 2015 21:35
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NihilismNow posted:Environmentalists lose their poo poo over simple RTG's. Now try selling the public you are going to crash land a nuclear reactor and have it "china syndrome" through the surface in the place most likely to contain life in our solar system.
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Jul 6, 2015 22:02
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are we there yet
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Jul 6, 2015 22:04
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Enceladus is where all the 1% will live after the runaway greenhouse gas effect turns earth into Venus
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Jul 6, 2015 22:08
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khwarezm posted:are we there yet I swear to God, I will pull this probe over and you'll regret it. Do you want me to turn this probe around and go home? Do you? Because I will
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Jul 6, 2015 22:12
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Do It Once Right posted:I swear to God, I will pull this probe over and you'll regret it. I wonder what new horizons would look like hitting the earth at whatever crazy speeds it would reach from pluto's orbit.
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Jul 6, 2015 22:45
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Did they calculate where it will end up ? Will it pass any stars/solar systems like Voyager ?
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Jul 6, 2015 22:47
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Decebal posted:Did they calculate where it will end up ? Will it pass any stars/solar systems like Voyager ? they haven't decided where they're going to send it next yet. it's going to go look at another kuiper belt object after pluto
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Decebal posted:Did they calculate where it will end up ? Will it pass any stars/solar systems like Voyager ? more importantly did they put a golden picture directing aliens invaders to earth on it?
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