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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 26 2005, 06:31 AM) Actually they will all be gone, destroyed by cosmic radiation, in about 200 years, tops.  ? Well- Nice to know your names will be traveling across the stars for at least 100 years. And NH should obviously be out of the solar system within 50 years.  |
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535
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QUOTE (Rob Pinnegar @ Oct 4 2005, 10:12 AM) It's a pity that the cops weren't able to pull him over. It can't be often that they get the opportunity to ticket someone for endangering a United States spacecraft. HAHAHA! So true |
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535
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QUOTE (mike @ Oct 25 2005, 02:35 PM) I've never been entirely sure that paper and electronic devices will last longer than good old stone.. I guess someone will find out, eventually, or they won't, because they won't realize paper and electronic devices existed, don't you know.. All I know is, it was INCREDIBLY LAME that NASA placed the CD that had the submitted names of people onboard the impactor of Deep Impact, not the spacecraft itself. "Woohoo! My name went to outer space! Too bad it didn't last long 'cause the contraption it was on collided and was vaporized by a comet!!" Thank you, NASA.  |
| Forum: Cometary and Asteroid Missions · Post Preview: #24520 · Replies: 26 · Views: 27541 |
| Posted on: Oct 25 2005, 06:32 PM | |
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535
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QUOTE (Adam @ Sep 24 2005, 01:06 PM) 578, not that bad.  I envy all of you. Assuming nothing goes wrong during launch or the cruise to Pluto or a KBO, your names will literally travel 'across the stars' (to borrow the title of one of John Williams' music themes from, um, Star Wars Episode II). A million years from now, that is.  |
| Forum: New Horizons · Post Preview: #24469 · Replies: 53 · Views: 100757 |
| Posted on: Oct 25 2005, 04:56 PM | |
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 3 2005, 02:54 AM) The Review Panel's report is now out ( http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/nh2_final_report.pdf ), and it turns thumbs down on the mission. NOOO!  |
| Forum: New Horizons · Post Preview: #24456 · Replies: 93 · Views: 143204 |
| Posted on: Oct 25 2005, 04:53 PM | |
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QUOTE (cIclops @ Feb 23 2005, 05:57 AM) This seems worthy of a new topic now that we have a higher level in the board  Alan has told us that such a mission is possible and could be launched in 2008-2009. There has already been some press coverage of the idea in this Space.com article Some initial thoughts on what could be discussed here: What changes should be made to the NH science objectives? The new mission trajectory, a Uranus encounter? What changes should be made to the original NH design? How to sell the mission to NASA. I surely hope there's an NH2 mission...for the sole fact I can get my name onboard the spacecraft. I missed the deadline to submit my name for the current New Horizons mission.  |
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QUOTE (mchan @ Oct 21 2005, 09:15 PM) And as I have said before, I think NASA et al should be utilizing these information discs being sent into space for ages for something more important and interesting than just a bunch of names. See here: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=19752 Plus the medium they continue to use - CD-ROMs and DVDs - will be destroyed by the natural radiation of space within just a few centuries at most For the record, the names are being put on a microchip aboard Dawn...not CD's or DVDs. |
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