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Unread postby lpetrich » Sun 22 Feb 2015, 00:20:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')o ipswitch, I take it that is a "big no-go there buddy on the space travel thingy?"

Yes indeed. A BIG no-go. Work out the numbers. Look at what's been done so far.

As to the economics of space travel, I remember someone several years ago stating that the cheapest thing to return from outer space is information. It is rather paradoxical, but as far as I can tell, it's true. It's also consistent with the most successful uses of space travel so far:
  • Communications relaying
  • Navigation: GPS and the like
  • Observation, like weather satellites, spy satellites, and space telescopes
Likewise, nearly all Solar-System exploration missions have been one-way. The spacecraft radio back what they find as they travel. Sample return mission - Wikipedia lists all the missions that have returned physical objects from elsewhere in the Solar System. The biggest returns have been rocks from the Moon, both by Apollo astronauts and by Soviet sample-return spacecraft. The rest is asteroid dust, comet dust, and solar wind.
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Re: THE Titan Thread (merged)

Unread postby Rod_Cloutier » Thu 26 Mar 2015, 18:55:11

A man who plagiarized my post that I started here in 2004 has just one an award for it from John Michael Greer:

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca/

http://spaceoilenergy.blogspot.ca/2015/ ... space.html

I'm not happy....
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Unread postby Tanada » Mon 30 Jan 2017, 07:49:19

Full report on the Huygens Probe that landed on Titan is now up on YouTube. Worth an hour of your time if you read through this thread at any point in time.

https://youtu.be/uE5POhMnN78
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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