Curiosity before launch (img credit The Atlantic)
According to this space.com article (and several other sources), the most likely cause was an internal short in Curiosity's radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) - the thingy tha...
@Undo haha why would you wanna do that? But yeah, close enough I guess. There was some IIRC ~ 11 V undervolt event (with average around 4-5 V?), i.e. likely some foreign body in the wiring, could be anything really. They had those before, tho never 11V (I think the highest previous was ~ 8V??)
@TildalWave Well yeah, but in a recent survey of the top ten awesome answers, nine were found to bear the name TildalWave and the diamond of perfection.
@Undo Give @Hash time to edit it, add more detail to it? I've added a few quote-worthy sources in the comment. It's a start, but there's tons of articles on the subject online.
@Tildal Yes, but any decent answer to that question is going to require tons of research - maybe close the q itself as too broad? (Just me thinking out loud)
@Undo No need, it's not that difficult to answer really. It depends on the answerer then to what detail they'd like to go. It can be dismissed with a few bullet points and links, or delve in detail about fine points to it. I don't think the question is bad, but the answer leaves much to be desired so far.
OK, question needs a bit of finetuning re grammar used, but it's not too bad otherwise
Anyway, you all have fun, I'm off to bed... about time too, it's 5 am ;) Good night!
@Hash it was likely probing for future spamming, the message doesn't have to make any sense, what matters to them is ability to post content onto the pages here
That image might also be a signature for all we know... just something that's relatively easy to search on via Google. A spammer's portfolio in a sense.
@Hash Mostly manually I guess, same as we post stuff, they just do it through proxies more so they can easily change their IP address. Some aren't even that good LOL
Every single day is a spam storm day.
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@Everyone it could be inferred through SOHO / STEREO observations
@nasa_eyes puts #ISON @ 844,000 mph (377.3 km/s or 0.126% c) at perihelion on 11/28 @ 7:38 UTC http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/comets/comets.xml http://t.co/EObjN3F86n
Like my question TOTW - Alliteration questions? could we consider a Topic of the Week where the questions are in the form of a haiku?
Just looking for a fun way to raise interest...
(Also since Meta points don't count, lets see how many downvotes I can generate, in good faith!)
I just saw some video on youtube where the author shows some animations from SOHO (like the one above, just stitched frames) and asks what is the object behind the Sun, as if it's something strange and artificial ... it was just a background star, or perhaps a planet (looked like Mercury to me)... and then he fired up celestial sim and looked at what could be behind the Sun from vantage point of Mars LOL
@Everyone likely, but I'd guess out of my head that you'd get far greater tidal forces by simply being that close to the Sun... it's close to one Sun radius in distance to it now
about 15 minutes later it still looks "OK" on STEREO ... but it is in a sense now just a stretched ball of plasma, who knows if it'll be able to keep together
Blimey looks like everyone missed that SDO frame I captured there up and retweeting my post like crazy, even the more official ones. I did have just enough room in the tweet to mention it's Falcon 9 next... still getting 20 new emails notifications per minute, grrrrr!!
there you go, so you don't feel left out :)
Now really... Falcon 9 is next. Don't even mention ISON!!
Tonight's Falcon 9 launch is targeting a 5:39pm ET liftoff - 1st Thanksgiving launch from Cape Canaveral since 1959. Happy #Spacegiving!
@Undo Not sure what you mean? A printscreen? It's a mess, just imagine a line of text about the flag (the reason), then if it's a certain type of a flag you see who posted it, and below it you have the link to the post where it was posted and a few buttons with options what to do with it. Nothing fancy really
I always open the thread it was posted in so I see it in context, make my mind about it better ... so that mod page is just a list of flags. I don't think anyone ever went to design it either, doesn't look like it LOL
Live stream for the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 on its SES 8 mission to GTO is now available via SpaceX Webcast More via these links: Press Kit (PDF) | Photos | Videos
Seven steps to reproduce a trivial yet annoying bug whereby acting as a moderator bans yourself from taking future action.
Be a moderator and take your mod-hammer with you into chat.
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I had better get some popcorn. I bet that's why i got aborted in the first place. The rocket must've done a scan and found that not everyone that was watching had a bag of popcorn.
Curiosity before launch (img credit The Atlantic)
According to this space.com article (and several other sources), the most likely cause was an internal short in Curiosity's radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) - the thingy tha...
What kind of technique does curiosity employ to find the safest (probably not the fastest) way to the destination that was given by NASA from earth?
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Like my question TOTW - Alliteration questions? could we consider a Topic of the Week where the questions are in the form of a haiku?
Just looking for a fun way to raise interest...
(Also since Meta points don't count, lets see how many downvotes I can generate, in good faith!)
