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Old March 2nd 07, 10:08 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
robert casey
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Duh! Of course. We are talking about the probe's *power supply*, not
the power of its transmitter used to talk to Earth. Dang if I can
figure out how I read that in the original post... And it wasn't even
that late last night... :-)



Good freaking Christ almighty on a stick. You're the one as having used
the antenna gain analogy. Double duh right back at you.
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I was trying to admit that I myself screwed up, and not blaming anybody
else :-)
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Old March 3rd 07, 05:14 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Brad Guth[_2_]
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robert casey wrote in article
. net :

I was trying to admit that I myself screwed up, and not blaming anybody
else :-)


That's very good to know, that I'm not the one and only village idiot
that's making mistakes. It's what generally comes along with a touch of
dyslexia, and for otherwise my being summarily ****ed off at how badly
this planet is taking itself to hell, and then some.

I think our NASA needs to get a fresh grip on its private parts, before
going ever deeper into space on the backs of mostly our hard earned
dollars. At some point we need to see a viable pay-back, or at least
some dim light at the end of that tunnel that's so far taking us nowhere
that'll benefit our environment or on behalf of benefiting humanity and
of so much other essential life that's sequestered onboard this badly
polluted and global warming sucker that's going to need something at
Earth L1 for accommodating a little shade, such as relocating our moon
to Earth L1.

I wonder what our resident LLPOF warlord(GW Bush) uses for his
faith-based dumb and dumber excuse, each time he and his close oil
sucking friends makes another mistake.
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Old March 3rd 07, 05:19 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Brad Guth[_2_]
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"Henry Spencer" wrote in message


The mission is mostly plutonium powered, as PVs are somewhat pathetic at
that distance from our wussy sun.

In other words, it's essentially a dirty bomb sent from Earth.
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Old March 6th 07, 04:52 AM posted to sci.space.policy,alt.astronomy,sci.space.history
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Henry Spencer wrote:

efficient cold. Rosetta's arrays in particular are optimized for the
dim/cold case, while I imagine Dawn's are more of a compromise, since it
never goes as far out as Rosetta, and will do quite a bit of its thrusting
while still fairly close in.


I just wanted to quote this out of context.

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Old March 6th 07, 05:52 AM posted to sci.space.policy,alt.astronomy,sci.space.history
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Mary Pegg wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:

efficient cold. Rosetta's arrays in particular are optimized for the
dim/cold case, while I imagine Dawn's are more of a compromise, since it
never goes as far out as Rosetta, and will do quite a bit of its thrusting
while still fairly close in.


I just wanted to quote this out of context.



It does look like Buffy the Vampire slash fiction, doesn't it?

 




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