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35 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

 

 

Any correlation with red states?

I guess forever's gonna start... you know... later

once upon a time there was poon in my life,

now there's only porn in the dark...

3 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Any correlation with red states?

West Virginia is leading the results 

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ( D-TX) once sat on the House Science Committee and the House Space Committee.  But understanding astronomy seems to elude her.

Jackson Lee explained to the crowd, "You have the energy of the moon at night.”

"And sometimes you’ve heard the word ‘full moon,’…Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon,” which she then explained is a "complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases.”

 

48 minutes ago, lynched1 said:

 

She actually got kicked off that NASA "Hidden Fences" moon team back in the 60's because she kept using the Ideal Gas Law to compute trajectories.

1 hour ago, Arthur Jackson said:

She actually got kicked off that NASA "Hidden Fences" moon team back in the 60's because she kept using the Ideal Gas Law to compute trajectories.

A movie I haven't gotten around to watching yet. Maybe this fall.

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You think they knew the title to this article was going to get some snickers ?
 

Uranus is gassier than we thought! Planet is not completely packed with ice, scientists find

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13302409/Uranus-methane-gas-Scientists-reveal-planet-not-completely-ice.html

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Image of Jupiter, or is it CGI of some yogurt going bad?

 

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NASA's Galileo spacecraft actually captured an active volcano on Io, one of Jupiter's moons!

Cloud seeding has backfired 

 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Cloud seeding has backfired 

 

 

Relieved to hear these scientists are on the case

 

26 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Cloud seeding has backfired 

 

 

You'll never see this kind of thing happen in Tennessee.

 

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Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense Again

Scientists are finally getting engineering data that is not gibberish.

https://www.iflscience.com/voyager-1-is-finally-making-sense-again-73926

 

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In March, the team sent a poke to the spacecraft and got back another weird message. But that time, it contained everything in the FDS memory, all of its code as well as science and engineering data. From that, they were able to understand the problem and find a solution: There is a single faulty chip that stores a portion of the FDS memory and some of its code.

We can’t simply repair a chip on a spacecraft that is 24 billion kilometers (15 billion miles) from Earth. So the team had to migrate the affected code elsewhere, and adjust the code so that the system would function and not end up using the damaged portion. 

 

Given its distance, it takes a long time to get anything to the probe and back. Voyager 1 is 22.5 light-hours away. They sent the first fix on April 18, and on April 20 got a reply – and it looks like it worked. They had a clear readout.

This is extremely good news after months of challenging work and uncertainty. The team is at work to complete the full restructure of the FDS software. Once that is completed, Voyager 1 will once again restart its scientific mission collecting data from interstellar space.

Woohoo!!!

This is astounding. This is probably the longest running computer in existence, and also the farthest from Earth.

:worthy:

Still love the V'ger plot twist of the OG Star Trek movie, with the actual probes having launched just 2 years prior to the movie releasing in theaters.

3 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Still love the V'ger plot twist of the OG Star Trek movie, with the actual probes having launched just 2 years prior to the movie releasing in theaters.

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