Seven Minutes of Terror

On Jul 13, 12:06*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:

You're obviously an ignorant ****.

Hint: *It's not a nuclear reactor and they tend to degrade FASTER
because the half-life of the fuel is much shorter due to higher decay
rates.


voyager is nearly out of the solar system and still operating after
being launched in the 70s.....

yet this lander wouldnt be able to complete its science mission
because the RTGs power was falling faster than designed BEFORE it
launched

fred is such a ignorant person, he presents himself as a know it all
but really is uninformed

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On Jul 13, 12:06*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:

You're obviously an ignorant ****.

Hint: *It's not a nuclear reactor and they tend to degrade FASTER
because the half-life of the fuel is much shorter due to higher decay
rates.


voyager is nearly out of the solar system and still operating after
being launched in the 70s.....

yet this lander wouldnt be able to complete its science mission
because the RTGs power was falling faster than designed BEFORE it
launched

fred is such a ignorant person, he presents himself as a know it all
but really is uninformed

Skylab lost nearly half of its planned output of its solar arrays when
one of the wings (and the micrometeorite shield) ripped off during its
(unmanned) launch. The other main array was jammed and would not deploy
without human intervention (i.e. an EVA).

So I suppose you would have canceled the entire manned Skylab program
because of the power shortage? After all, Skylab's electrical
generation capability was greatly diminished when compared to its
planned capability.

Jeff
--
" Ares 1 is a prime example of the fact that NASA just can't get it
up anymore... and when they can, it doesn't stay up long. "
- tinker

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:20:39 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote, perhaps among other things:

On Jul 11, 12:36*pm, bob haller wrote:
On Jul 11, 1:02*pm, Jeff Findley wrote:









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On Jul 11, 8:55*am, "hanson" wrote:
.... or have you forgotten already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
and also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=P4boyXQuUIw

i will be shocked if it works successfully.

the system appears overly complex and the great martian is licking his
chops. worse theres no 2nd vehicle in transit.

besides which the nuclear power supply is reported to be degrading too
fast which will limit science operations

And yet, you're a long time supporter of more toasters on Mars.

so spirit and opportunity are toasters to you???

I think that's a Battlestar Galactica reference.


Mark L. Fergerson

It reminds me of the flying toasters on Jefferson Airplane's "Thirty
Seconds over Winterland".

hey this is great, older threads have all of freds looney toon rants auto deleted....