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Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth. "The cover released and flew away exactly as we designed it to do," said Kepler Project Manager James Fanson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This is a critical step toward answering a question that has come down to us across 100 generations of human history -- are there other planets like Earth, or are we alone in the galaxy?" http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-20090407.html You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
suki quin Send message Joined: 12 Oct 08 Posts: 81 Credit: 1,053,392 RAC: 0 |
Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.edited URL to make it work Cool news. This little UNIT is apparently looking for planets! Seventy hundred gizumpty-dillion dollars spent on science in the last fifty years and we have finally succeeded in building something practical. keep telescopic listening devices aimed at the Zenith of the Horizon |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
I always thought space toilets were practical In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
I always thought space toilets were practical There's an article on space toilets here somewhere. For sale too I think. me@rescam.org |
suki quin Send message Joined: 12 Oct 08 Posts: 81 Credit: 1,053,392 RAC: 0 |
This is a useful idea... in lieu {!} of what is not drifting (which is why you need to have one of those "dust covers", i think). Apparently one would be a good idea on the Moon: click for amazing list of some things left so far on the Moon |
Johnney Guinness Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 3093 Credit: 2,652,287 RAC: 0 |
The NASA Kepler website has a tonne of info about what's happening; http://kepler.nasa.gov/ They also have some very good video's to explain how Kepler will work; http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/animations.html The hardest part is going to be waiting the 4 years to get some results!. But i believe that they will have detected planets within the first few months of observation. The big Gas Giants should be spotted very quickly. John. |
freecitizen Send message Joined: 18 May 09 Posts: 28 Credit: 2,766 RAC: 0 |
"The cover released and flew away exactly as we designed it to do," said Kepler Project Manager James Fanson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif." Great, more space debris! Life is short so, make the best of it. |
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