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duzzy
duzzy
12:46 AM
@PearsonArtPhoto Too much nudity?
 
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
1:33 AM
Lol. No, its the hours, and tendency to work on major holidays.
If I was still at my company I left, I would likely have to work on both Thanksgiving and Christmas...
 
kim holder
kim holder
that is rough. though if my dad could have gotten me in to see real satellites, or hey maybe even a launch, i'd have been real forgiving :D
 
 
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PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
3:15 AM
Yeah, but that never worked out, so...
 
kim holder
kim holder
mmm, double trouble. even rougher.
 
 
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JNat
JNat
12:32 PM
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
4:53 PM
NASA Image of the Day: Flight Testing NASA's Prandtl-D Research Aircraft
posted on November 05, 2015

NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D. The aircraft features a new method for determining the shape of the wing with a twist that could lead to an 11-percent reduction in fuel consumption.

 
 
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PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
6:53 PM
I really like the chart on this question, and I wish I had been pushed to find it earlier...
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A: Could the Moon keep an atmosphere?

PearsonArtPhotoIt can keep an atmosphere, and in fact does. The atmosphere is something akin to a high grade Earth-based vacuum. But that's probably not what you are looking for. Okay, so what would happen with, say, an Earth sized atmosphere on the Moon? A lot of really interesting things would happen actuall...

 
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
7:04 PM
I see an article with a large sized Mars picture, titled "Big Mars News", and for some reason I think of the crazy internet hoax of Mars appearing to be the size of the moon...
 
kim holder
kim holder
@PearsonArtPhoto that got it put on my favorites list
 
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
7:24 PM
Nice, the Maven press briefing resulted in no questions from the local media.
Not surprising really, this is a rather technical briefing...
And not very understandable science.
 
 
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duzzy
duzzy
9:20 PM
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Q: How long will Cassini survive its dive into Saturn's atmosphere?

Chris LoonamThe Cassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn's system since 2004 and is scheduled to be sent into Saturn's atmosphere at the end of its mission following a final encounter with Titan in 2017. When the craft makes its journey into Saturn, for how long will it be able to gather and report data...

probe saturn cassini
That is an interesting question. How long did Galileo survive its plunge into Jupiter?
Wow, one site says 78 minutes into Jupiter's atmosphere.
but I wonder how similarly built Cassini is to Galileo.
Oh, no. That was a probe.
 
geoffc
geoffc
9:37 PM
@duzzy Hyugens?
 
duzzy
duzzy
A probe from Galileo.
it was tossed into jupiter and survived 78 minutes. i can't find how long Galileo itself survived.
but presumably the probe was better designed to survive the atmosphere.
 
geoffc
geoffc
Cassini's probe was named Hyugens. I do not recall Galileo having a probe.
 
duzzy
duzzy
Right.
Apparently it was just called the Galileo probe. :P
 
duzzy
duzzy
9:59 PM
I keep seeing sites that say Galileo entered Jupiter's atmosphere "in darkness". I think that implies that it was on the far side of the planet, and if that's the case we probably wouldn't have gotten any information from it as it entered, so maybe it's not possible to know anything about how long it survived.
 
 
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David Freitag
David Freitag
11:37 PM
in The Observatory, 12 mins ago, by Pies
twinkle twinle little star, you must be a small pulsar. out away from earth you drift, this is known from your redshift. twinkle twinkle little star, degenerate neutrons are what you are.
 

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