JPL Open House: An Invitation to the Solar System and Beyond

JPL open house indeed,an invitation to the nightmare more like it !

Well, even so, they still can land probes on Mars and Titan. They
can't have things that screwed up then......

robert casey wrote:

JPL open house indeed,an invitation to the nightmare more like it !

Well, even so, they still can land probes on Mars and Titan. They
can't have things that screwed up then......

Yeah, ..but they got the rate of Earth expansion screwed up and
therefore landed with a bit more of a bump than they calculated. A
mind that can disregard the importance of geological time
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/nonsense/drivel.html
can achieve wondreous things in the present. You can even put a slab
of basalt in the middle of your lawn and be reasonably sure it will not
sink through through to the core by the morning. But how the likes of
the Afar basalts manages to stay on top of the crust and not sink
through it (because it's more dense) after all this time is a bit more
of a mystery. (We'll ask Stuart this one in a little while and see if
we get an answer.)

Now all they got to do is land one on Earth, ..and start looking. See
if they can discover the magical evidence encrypted in the geological
record that the Earth is rotating. Of course, ...they're off to a good
start by chucking out 'subduction' and calling it 'overriding'
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/tck/lingo1.html

Then what they've got to do next is work out what that means...

They're clever boys indeed. Up to a point.

robert casey wrote:

JPL open house indeed,an invitation to the nightmare more like it !

Well, even so, they still can land probes on Mars and Titan.

When did JPL land a probe on Titan?


Tim
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Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin' island!

When did JPL land a probe on Titan?



Oh, it was a European probe. But it hitched a ride
on a JPL probe.....

To Robert

Do you understand the difference between terrestial ballistics alone
and terrestial ballistics applied to planetary motion ?.