Galileo Dies In Two Weeks
MonsieurEvil
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<div class="IPBDescription">Well done, explorer</div> <a href='http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030908fa_fact' target='_blank'>http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030908fa_fact</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->For the past eight years, the vintage spacecraft known as the Galileo Orbiter has been tracing a complex path between Jupiter’s four large moons. During this time, it has made detailed scientific observations and taken thousands of high-resolution photographs, beaming them to Earth, half a billion miles away. On September 21st, Galileo’s extended tour of Jupiter’s satellites will end, and it will hurtle directly toward the immense banded clouds and spinning storms of the largest planet in the solar system. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The entire article is a truly amazing read of overcoming obstacles to create, such as a signaling problem forcing NASA to replace software remotely several years into the mission:
"It took years, but by the time the orbiter completed its first sweep around Jupiter its software had been fully replaced. It was a move with unprecedented risks—“a complete brain transplant over a four-hundred-million-mile radio link,” as one team paper put it—and any error could have meant losing the spacecraft. But the update was necessary, and the code transfer was flawless."
That's just one example. Man's triumph of science and engineering.
Well done, Galileo, and all its faithful creators and handlers.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->For the past eight years, the vintage spacecraft known as the Galileo Orbiter has been tracing a complex path between Jupiter’s four large moons. During this time, it has made detailed scientific observations and taken thousands of high-resolution photographs, beaming them to Earth, half a billion miles away. On September 21st, Galileo’s extended tour of Jupiter’s satellites will end, and it will hurtle directly toward the immense banded clouds and spinning storms of the largest planet in the solar system. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The entire article is a truly amazing read of overcoming obstacles to create, such as a signaling problem forcing NASA to replace software remotely several years into the mission:
"It took years, but by the time the orbiter completed its first sweep around Jupiter its software had been fully replaced. It was a move with unprecedented risks—“a complete brain transplant over a four-hundred-million-mile radio link,” as one team paper put it—and any error could have meant losing the spacecraft. But the update was necessary, and the code transfer was flawless."
That's just one example. Man's triumph of science and engineering.
Well done, Galileo, and all its faithful creators and handlers.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->...[It is] ironic that “Galileo Galilei only got house arrest by his sponsor the Roman Catholic Church for discovering things they didn’t want to be true, whereas our Project Galileo gets a death sentence from nasa for its greatest discovery: the prospect of life on Europa.”<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
LOL
hahahaha.
well, yeah. nicely done. nicely done.
edit: yes, priceless, mister evil.
[clapping]
[giggling]
*SHUT UP, STUPID, HE CAN HEAR YOU!!*
[resumed clapping]
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Nuclear
Awesome quip...
(The scene at NASA Mission Control, Johnson Space Center)
Flight Director: Ok men, we're ready to connect and start the download
Electrical Engineer: Here we go...
<i>Download from North East Server? 400/400, your wait time is approximately 63215621890 hours</i>
Flight Director: MOTHER******! I told them we should have got a Founders Club account!
I can't wait to see what the future has in store for us. Nasa should get more funding, but anways, we are getting somwhere right?
I know that at one time a mission to explore europan oceans was a possibility, but I read somewhere (probably in the article) that one of the reason we are forcing Galleleo down rather than let is die on its own is that theres a small chance it could impact europa, and NASA would wan't to contaminate any ecosystem that might be there. So.. its really a toss up right now I guess.
we need to go mess up more planets. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->