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| Thread ID: 126093 | 2012-08-06 07:16:00 | Mars lander is down | Jayess64 (8703) | PC World Chat |
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| 1293245 | 2012-08-06 12:23:00 | I guess they use that for minimal power consumption - even though it has a nuclear reactor on board.It doesn't have a reactor - it has an RTG. This is not the same thing as a nuclear reactor, and the amount of power generated is *much* lower - I can't remember the exact figures, but from memory it's designed for an output of between 130 and 100 watts (slowly decreasing over its designed service lifetime). | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1293246 | 2012-08-06 21:34:00 | Enviromentalists caused a bit of a stink when the Cassini project was launched for Saturn a few years as it had a nuclear reactor on board, and if the rocket blew up during the launch stage the explosion could spread nuclear radiation. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1293247 | 2012-08-06 21:53:00 | Enviromentalists caused a bit of a stink when the Cassini project was launched for Saturn a few years as it had a nuclear reactor on board, and if the rocket blew up during the launch stage the explosion could spread nuclear radiation. :)I'll wait for Erayd to correct you there :) |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1293248 | 2012-08-06 22:02:00 | :lol: | Trev (427) | ||
| 1293249 | 2012-08-06 22:20:00 | GENEVA (The Borowitz Report)—The landing of the Mars science rover Curiosity does not qualify as a significant scientific achievement and should not be getting so much of the public’s attention, says the team of scientists who discovered the Higgs boson last month . “People see these beautiful pictures from outer space and they’re inclined to think that something amazing has been achieved,” a spokesperson for the Higgs-boson team said . “Let the Mars rover do something of genuine value, like, say, discover how the universe was created . Then I’ll be impressed . ” As for the NASA scientists behind the Mars rover, the Higgs-boson spokesman said, “I don’t think we should be too quick to use the word ‘scientist’ here . Honestly, anyone can grow a Mohawk and put on a headset and look cool and all, but that hardly makes you a scientist . Let’s see some of these dudes discover a particle or something along those lines . I mean, come on . ” From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, response to the Higgs-boson team’s comments was swift and irate, as a NASA spokesman called the remarks “an unacceptable diss . ” “You know the difference between the Mars rover and the Higgs boson?” said a NASA spokesman, his face red with anger . “You can actually see the Mars rover . ”Pretty rude of the higgs guys and good on the NASA spokeman . |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1293250 | 2012-08-06 22:26:00 | Quite agree with you Iantech. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1293251 | 2012-08-07 06:29:00 | I hope that Borowitz Report is a hoax - it has that smell. | Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1293252 | 2012-08-07 06:40:00 | Can't be genuine, any report to or from Geneva is funneled into the Swiss Post system. That explains why there is no Swiss space program. (They have only just heard that the Chinese have invented gunpowder.) As far as they are concerned, space is where letters go to mature. Mars is just a rumour to them. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1293253 | 2012-08-07 07:10:00 | Just Googled "Borowitz". It's OK to laugh now. | Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1293254 | 2012-08-07 08:10:00 | Woops wrong group | paulw (1826) | ||
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