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'Dawn' asteroid probe -- highest power ever?
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. - I was trying to admit that I myself screwed up, and not blaming anybody else :-) |
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'Dawn' asteroid probe -- highest power ever?
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. - Brad Guth -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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'Dawn' asteroid probe -- highest power ever?
"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. - Brad Guth -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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'Dawn' asteroid probe -- highest power ever?
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. -- "Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists". |
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'Dawn' asteroid probe -- highest power ever?
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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