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forumwhore 
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Posted on: Jul. 14 2002,21:26 |
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They're getting it together to finally visit the last "unvisited" planet and maybe take a closer look at Europa where there may be a lot of water.... and maybe life?
The kicker is that the money is there, but the Feds may cut it.
"Now is the time for all good men...."
If the money is cut, these guys may never see a mission to Pluto. Right now it still has a gaseous atmosphere, about to freeze down for another century as Pluto passes father away due to its eccentric orbit...
Good Luck to you guys, that photo of Pluto above is interesting but.... you know.
And Europa, I've read to many A. Clarke SF novels.... maybe there's all sorts of little critters in hidden seas....
Every time humans explored new territory, they found a way to make money off it.
Somebody's going to get rich off the Moon...
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a2n3d7y
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Posted on: Jul. 14 2002,22:49 |
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Don't flame me for this. Cuz I'm NOT saying it's true. But....holy shit.....
http://www.planetxvideo.com/
OR....
http://www.artbell.com/hotlinks.html
...again.....not saying I BELIEVE it, but.........
Edited by a2n3d7y on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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TheTaxMan
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Every star has a zone around it that will support water in liquid form: a necessary component for LAWKI (Life As We Know It, best acronym ever) to develope. This area axists between venus and out to approx. Mars. Europa is about 2x as far as Mars and I'm not sure why Pluto is even on the same page since it's not an actual planet.
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Four billion years of evolution and this is all we have to show for it?
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forumwhore
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Posted on: Jul. 15 2002,04:21 |
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Pluto/Charon: Technically it's a double planet such as Terra and Luna.
Because of the tremendous tidal stresses, Europa can support a liquid water ocean.
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forumwhore
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Posted on: Jul. 15 2002,04:27 |
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Andy, what you have is interesting
enough to start another thread.
(hint)
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TheTaxMan
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Pluto is a useless chunk of ice that was captured by some stupid happening and is possible the most uninteresting of all things in the solar system.
I bet the same tidal forces would make life on europa impossible (since it's still hopelessly cold anyway).
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forumwhore
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Posted on: Jul. 15 2002,06:17 |
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OK, we'll tell Congress that and sit with our thumbs up our bums.
Sir, now I am getting your goat on purpose.
Have you been those places?
What is there exactly?
All worthless?
Tidal forces = friction = heat = chemistry
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TheTaxMan
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Posted on: Jul. 15 2002,17:11 |
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Actualy, no one ahs 'been' to them because it would take tens of years to fly to europa. However, we have this nice little thing called a telescope, some of which could probably read a lisence plate on Europa. There's is as muchw ater on Europa as there is on Mars, probably.
Good thing it doesn't matter since it's too damned cold.
And Pluto is just a ball of ice with another ball of ice spining with it.
Did you know that diamonds exist in the atmosphere of Neptune? Big, gigantic suckers the size of trucks. Who cares? You can't get inside the atmosphere deep enough to 'pluck one out' because of a nice thing called gravity that would squash you like a bug -long- before you got any measureable distance inside. This same gravitational well that creates tidal forces on Europa would make it impossible to live there since Jupiter would cause everything to swing around onto one side of the planet, atmosphere etc.
The solar system is mostly a pretty boring place.
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forumwhore
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Posted on: Jul. 15 2002,21:43 |
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Heh, a truck-sized diamond or two might make the bottom drop out of DeBeers... if it could be cut properly...
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Jul. 15 2002,23:25 |
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pluto and charon are not really planets, they are just called that because they were named before we knew better. they are actually just large asteroids which came from the oort cloud. other similarly sized planetoids have been discovered in highly eliptical orbits about as far as pluto, however they were not named planets because they are really just asteroids. I think there were 3 big ones that were 80% of the size of pluto, and then several smaller ones.
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