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Bitmap Frogs on 08 April 2009
mrstickball said:
To be fair, Bitmap, we've landed a probe on Titan, and not on Europa. Titan's received far more attention as of late....Cassini provided quite a bit of great data on Saturn and it's moons.

Add to that, JIMO was either canned or delayed inevitably, and it's a sad thing that Europa is getting no attention.

 

Yeah =)

Anyways things are sort of quiet at the moment. Constellation should raise the awareness levels of interplanetary travel in a few years. Mostly just a few geeks care about it at the moment =/





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mrstickball on 08 April 2009
highwaystar101 said:
The Cassini-Huygens mission proved Titan was quite dull, the probe just sent back a boring picture of some rocks. It did gain more attention but now Europa (not europe BTW lol) is the wave of the future.

However, I am far more interested in the 'DAWN' mission. in 2011 it will fly by Vespa and in 2015 it will begin orbit around Ceres. Seeing detailed photos of Ceres is an excellent achievement.

You think that the Huygens probe sending back pictures of a lake is dull?

Yeah. Those pictures are definately dull.



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highwaystar101 on 08 April 2009

I think I meant Cassini lol... Oh well I get them confused. either way it suggested there was no life on the moon.



SamuelRSmith on 08 April 2009

"You think that the Huygens probe sending back pictures of a lake is dull?"

I found that statement hilarious.... especially if taken out of context.

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This stuff is all way over my head - but I have to ask: space elevators - 50,000km tall - wouldn't that cause epic ear popping? My ears scream on an aeroplane.



highwaystar101 on 08 April 2009
SamuelRSmith said:
"You think that the Huygens probe sending back pictures of a lake is dull?"

I found that statement hilarious.... especially if taken out of context.

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This stuff is all way over my head - but I have to ask: space elevators - 50,000km tall - wouldn't that cause epic ear popping? My ears scream on an aeroplane.

I would imagine it would be pressurised.

 



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SamuelRSmith on 08 April 2009

Aren't planes pressurised?



highwaystar101 on 08 April 2009

SamuelRSmith said:
Aren't planes pressurised?

They are, but they have to lower the cabin pressure after take-off for soem reason. I don't know why though, I forget.

what makes your ears go pop is that you have pockets oif air in your ear and between your ear and nose. when the pressure is dropped the air in you ear rushes out into the atmosphese to equalise the pressure between your ears and the atmosphere. That's why it goes pop. Or at least I think that's what happens.

Anyway, I imagine the elavator would be pressurised ina different way to planes.



highwaystar101 on 08 April 2009

This is the photo I was refering to earlier from Cassini.



mrstickball on 08 April 2009

That's of the landing site. Refer to my 3 pictures that were taken by the same probe while it was gliding to the surface of Titan. Far more interesting with those pictures. There was a chance it could of landed in one of the lakes :-p

That would have been interesting.



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KillerMan on 09 April 2009

Imagine if all that money that is wasted on guns and other warfare would be used on Space science. Sadly human nature is so violent....