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Sep 26 2005, 09:56 PM
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NASA Press Release
APL press release Space.com Article Coming up... October: communications checks November: hydrazine loading and Atlas V countdown rehearsal December: integration with Atlas V January: LAUNCH! No pictures on the KSC webcams yet. But still pictures here. Is that the flight RTG attached to the spacecraft? Or just a dummy? |
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Sep 27 2005, 12:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
I just showed this picture to my 8 year old, and told her that when that spaceship finally gets to Pluto, she will have graduated from high school and be getting ready to go to college. Her reply:
"Whoa!" Indeed... -------------------- --O'Dave
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Sep 27 2005, 02:07 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
She sure is pretty with all that gold foil.
Alan et al, any last minute emergencies or "Holy sh__!" like they had on MER? -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Sep 27 2005, 09:30 AM
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Is that the flight RTG attached to the spacecraft? Or just a dummy? [endquote] IMHO it is just a dummy with the proper mass/dimensions to be used for spin/balance testing. live long and prsper mauro |
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Sep 27 2005, 09:31 AM
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As I understand it, the only possible show-stopper now is that they still need official permission from Bush to launch that much plutonium. I'm sure he'll agree, once they've explained to him what Pluto is.
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Sep 27 2005, 10:26 AM
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Sep 27 2005, 02:06 PM
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"I'm sure he'll agree, once they've explained to him what Pluto is. "
just say this is the only chance he'll get to launch something nuclear and get away with it. He'll love it |
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Sep 27 2005, 05:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
I thought it was "nucular"
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Sep 27 2005, 06:00 PM
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Sep 27 2005, 08:46 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 27 2005, 10:31 AM) As I understand it, the only possible show-stopper now is that they still need official permission from Bush to launch that much plutonium. I'm sure he'll agree, once they've explained to him what Pluto is. "Ma fellow amphibians, we have today launched Mickey Mouse and his faithful dawg to their home planet. World. Thing..." -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Sep 27 2005, 09:20 PM
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Actually, the blood-chilling thing about "nucular" is how many non-Bushians pronounce it the same way -- including Tony Blair, Walter Mondale, and (as the supreme insult) Clinton's first Defense Secretary, Les Aspin. A DEFENSE SECRETARY who can't say "nuclear" is a bit much. And what the hell was Tony learning in those pricey private schools, besides a plummy accent?
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Sep 27 2005, 10:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 27 2005, 10:20 PM) Actually, the blood-chilling thing about "nucular" is how many non-Bushians pronounce it the same way -- including Tony Blair, Walter Mondale, and (as the supreme insult) Clinton's first Defense Secretary, Les Aspin. A DEFENSE SECRETARY who can't say "nuclear" is a bit much. And what the hell was Tony learning in those pricey private schools, besides a plummy accent? Bruce: If we tell you what Tony Blair was *really* taught, then we'll have to kill you. Aha. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Sep 27 2005, 10:38 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 27 2005, 04:20 PM) Actually, the blood-chilling thing about "nucular" is how many non-Bushians pronounce it the same way -- including Tony Blair, Walter Mondale, and (as the supreme insult) Clinton's first Defense Secretary, Les Aspin. A DEFENSE SECRETARY who can't say "nuclear" is a bit much. And what the hell was Tony learning in those pricey private schools, besides a plummy accent? Sadly enough, look at Webster. Pronunciations: 'nü-klE-&r, 'nyü-, ÷-ky&-l&r I don't know when it happened (post-2000 perhaps?) but nucular is apparently an approved pronunciation now. Who wants to be the first to storm Merriam Webster's HQ? |
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Sep 27 2005, 10:43 PM
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How many RTG pellets are now on board??
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Sep 28 2005, 12:30 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
"Mr. President, we're sending the plutonium back to Pluto, where it came from." Now we just need to get some Neptunium onto a spacecraft...
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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