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Bozeman 
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2002,00:35 |
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Oh, come on! Without Pluto you can't say "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." (a mnemonic phrase for the planets in the Sol system)
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Necromancer
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2002,04:15 |
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ok despite this happening recently i'm probably the most qualified to confirm or and deny this stuff i am the one and only ace rimmer after all.
first off any thing we may see out in our solar system that may look like a planet will turn out to be another pluto (just a large asteroid/planetesimal). we have only actually seen pluto officially 3 directly times since its discovery as its so damn far away and seeing as its orbit is very unstable its a bitch to find again and chances are we'll accidentaly find another similiar chunck of rock but it isn't that intersting now that we realise what it is.
europa on the other hand is extremely important as it the only known other place in the universe where water is known to exist in its liquid form (bare in mind that this isnt 100% confirmed until we get there). the reason for its interest isn't as much is there fish there because that just isnt possible. its the one place where we can test our theories on how life began because it is a comepletly independant system. there may be no life there but there may be conditions suitable for some kind of microscopic life forms at most.
jupiter itself provides enough energy to support a low level energy supply through gravity more than anything and jupiter is effectivley a star that never got big enough to start fusion.
the mission that is due to go there is hopefully going to be equipped with a probe designed to drill down into the liquid area without contaminating the system from earth (thanks to some prototypeing used in antarctica when they found a 2 million year lake kept perfectly isolated from the rest of the world) it will then stay there for the rest of its days transmitting data to the surface probe.
another point of interest is the project destined for i think 2005 when they plan to launch an array of telescopes to act in unison to hopefully observe directly extra solar planets as small as earth in (extra solar meaning in other star systems) doing spectroscopy on these will allow us to determine whether water exists there and such.
and these telescopes able to read a license plate can do this cos there shit loads of light being transmitted to them. you point one of those at europa and you will see fuck all. try getting a pair of really powerful binoculars you know the small ones and then try looking at the stars then compare that to one with only say 5-7 times mag but with 80-100mm diameter and you'll see what i mean.
besides making planets look pretty the only thing optical telescopes are good for is nothing. you need spectroscopy to get any information about a planet and even that can be restictive when it isnt emitting any light to analyse.
out of all the projects done by nasa this one is more important than the moon landing. remember they didnt know what was there until they got there and thats so fucking close you can see it with the naked eye.
theres other stuff to be said here but i've rambled on long enough and i'm not gonna post an essay to get the meaning across.
Edited by Necromancer on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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Necromancer
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2002,04:17 |
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| Quote (TheTaxMan @ 15 July 2002,17:11) | | The solar system is mostly a pretty boring place. |
funny how they manage to come up with a whole three year course on just that particular part isnt it 
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TheTaxMan
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2002,16:49 |
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Yep. Everything outside the SS, imo, is much more interesting. Then again, I don't like history much either.
/me hops on his space elavator to go mine some minerals.
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forumwhore
Fear Me, I Am Change.
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2002,17:40 |
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain."
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Necromancer
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Posted on: Jul. 17 2002,21:42 |
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is that the shakespeare referance or the blade runner one?
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forumwhore
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Posted on: Jul. 19 2002,20:41 |
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Bladerunner.
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