Jeez, it's as bad as raising parents. You spend nearly twenty years training them and then, when you step away for a few years to university, all that training goes down the tube and they revert.
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Jeez, it's as bad as raising parents. You spend nearly twenty years training them and then, when you step away for a few years to university, all that training goes down the tube and they revert.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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"Reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated!":
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/...nale/overview/
Looks like we are going to get a lot of new data and pictures before the final plunge; including first time look inside the rings :)
Ja-mata TosaInu
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This mission certainly got its money's worth.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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This image of the Earth and Moon through the rings is just amazing. Sure, they are just dots, but when you know what those dots are, it gets awesome.
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An!
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
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Countdown to Grand Finale
Sept. 15 is going to be the last Hurrah!:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/...latest-status/
End notes:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/312...ion-of-saturn/
Gone, but it sounds like they are going to be unpacking the data for years
Last edited by HopAlongBunny; 09-17-2017 at 14:49.
Ja-mata TosaInu
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It is kind of sad that Cassini's last seconds will not be recorded. It would almost be perfect if its last transmission was "My God - it's full of stars!"
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