Deep Impact
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:42 pm
now this is cool: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepi ... index.html
now that's great trajectory planning
now that's great trajectory planning
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:54 pm
Trudat!
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:59 pm
Space exploration is utterly pointless.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:39 pm
how so?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:03 pm
Sort of like Columbus setting out from Spain in 1492?Dedman wrote:Space exploration is utterly pointless.
Or sort of like Lewis and Clarke Setting out across the "Barren and useless wastelands of America"?
Or maybe like Captain Cook sailing into the Great Southern Ocean?
No, Wait, it's like Marco Polo exploring Eurasia...
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:46 pm
Exactly!Mobius wrote:Sort of like Columbus setting out from Spain in 1492?Dedman wrote:Space exploration is utterly pointless.
Or sort of like Lewis and Clarke Setting out across the "Barren and useless wastelands of America"?
Or maybe like Captain Cook sailing into the Great Southern Ocean?
No, Wait, it's like Marco Polo exploring Eurasia...
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:58 pm
what i don't understand is why they didn't FILM it hitting, instead of just taking still photos. 
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:34 pm
itd take forever to upload and it would be a huge file to carry on along with all the other systems it needs for a voyage in space
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:21 am
The simple act of exploration more often than not accomplishes little or nothing.
But eventually it can and probably will pay off great dividends. Without it we'd all be stuck in Europe and the Middle East.
But eventually it can and probably will pay off great dividends. Without it we'd all be stuck in Europe and the Middle East.
