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Old March 9th 14, 02:18 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Seems the Cassini mission will be killed in 2015 b
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Old March 9th 14, 03:27 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 06:18:25 -0700 (PDT), RichA
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Seems the Cassini mission will be killed in 2015 b


It's already operating well past its original end-of-life. And it
isn't a purely NASA mission. The ESA can opt to continue with the
extended mission if they choose.

Extended missions are always subject to continued financing outside
the original budget. If Congress doesn't allocate sufficient funding,
NASA has to adjust its priorities. As we now know with a high degree
of certainty that the world is in deep trouble due to climate change,
and part of NASA's primary charter is studying the Earth and its
climate, it makes good sense they should shift what resources they
have to that. Understanding the Earth in more detail has become the
most important thing NASA can do.
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Old March 9th 14, 07:49 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Sunday, March 9, 2014 2:27:18 PM UTC, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 06:18:25 -0700 (PDT), RichA

wrote:



Seems the Cassini mission will be killed in 2015 b




It's already operating well past its original end-of-life. And it

isn't a purely NASA mission. The ESA can opt to continue with the

extended mission if they choose.



Extended missions are always subject to continued financing outside

the original budget. If Congress doesn't allocate sufficient funding,

NASA has to adjust its priorities. As we now know with a high degree

of certainty that the world is in deep trouble due to climate change,

and part of NASA's primary charter is studying the Earth and its

climate, it makes good sense they should shift what resources they

have to that. Understanding the Earth in more detail has become the

most important thing NASA can do.


So let's see where NASA is at in understanding the Earth -

"The Earth spins on its axis about 366 and 1/4 times each year, but there are only 365 and 1/4 days per year. This is because we define a day not based on the Earth's period of rotation, but based on the average time from noon one day to noon the next. Gradually over the course of a year the Sun appears to go 'backwards' (West to East) around the Earth compared to the far away stars (this is because we are really going around the Sun). Subtracting this 1 time backwards from the 366 and 1/4 times forward, we get the typical 365 and 1/4 days per year." NASA

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/as...rs/970714.html

I don't know what people have against the actual architecture where the apparent motion of Sirius along the ecliptic and behind the glare of the Sun fixes the Earth's orbital position in space with its first appearance. The drift backwards into the Sun's glare by a 6 hour amount of orbital motion with each 365 day cycle accumulates to an entire rotation after 4 circuits hence the appearance skips a day.

I don't care if these guys stonewall and continue to conjure fiction in order to get some sort of social reaction based on their idea of climate but when a society can't mesh one rotation with all the effects within a 24 hour day,and that is exactly what that nonsensical 366 1/4 rotation figure represents,then indeed people in our era are in deep trouble,nothing to do with climate but with the dominance of a cult.





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On Sunday, March 9, 2014 11:49:06 AM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:

I don't care if these guys stonewall and continue to conjure fiction in order to get some sort of social reaction based on their idea of climate but when a society can't mesh one rotation with all the effects within a 24 hour day,and that is exactly what that nonsensical 366 1/4 rotation figure represents,then indeed people in our era are in deep trouble,nothing to do with climate but with the dominance of a cult.


https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...06365668_n.jpg
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Old March 9th 14, 10:10 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Sunday, March 9, 2014 7:27:12 PM UTC, palsing wrote:
On Sunday, March 9, 2014 11:49:06 AM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:



I don't care if these guys stonewall and continue to conjure fiction in order to get some sort of social reaction based on their idea of climate but when a society can't mesh one rotation with all the effects within a 24 hour day,and that is exactly what that nonsensical 366 1/4 rotation figure represents,then indeed people in our era are in deep trouble,nothing to do with climate but with the dominance of a cult.




https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...06365668_n.jpg


If the people at NASA wish to study the Earth then they had better come to understand the architecture of the 24 hour system and the Lat/long system which exploits the terms 'average' with its partner 'constant' within the framework of references which fix the planet's orbital location in space and the number of actual rotations that fit inside an orbital circumference.

The definitive explanation has been processed here over the last dozen years but is always open to improvement as it brings in new tools and more expansive historical and technical details in order to escape the celestial sphere quagmire created by taking conceptual shortcuts.

Sci.astro.amateur has been an open source conduit but as far as I am concerned the changes have not come quick enough in the overall scheme of things or in the different sections such as climate,evolutionary geology and so on..



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Old March 10th 14, 04:43 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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The Eurotrash socialists are busy bankrupting their countries by squandering money on solar and wind power. Spain was a good example of this. I hardly think they'll pony up any more money for a space mission.
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Old March 10th 14, 03:28 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:43:34 -0700 (PDT), RichA
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The Eurotrash socialists are busy bankrupting their countries by squandering money on solar and wind power. Spain was a good example of this. I hardly think they'll pony up any more money for a space mission.


Oooh... the Eurotrash socialists. Did you remember to look under your
bed for monsters before going to sleep? I hear the bogeyman is running
loose in your part of Canada.
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Old March 10th 14, 04:44 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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RichA wrote:
The Eurotrash socialists are busy bankrupting their countries by
squandering money on solar and wind power. Spain was a good example of
this. I hardly think they'll pony up any more money for a space mission.


Perhaps you will approve of this one:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Ob...eenhouse_gases
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Old March 10th 14, 05:02 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Sunday, March 9, 2014 6:18:25 AM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
Seems the Cassini mission will be killed in 2015 b


5+ trillions are still missing in action, and our MIC run Pentagon could care less.

Imagine what our NASA and DARPA could have accomplished with just 10% of that hard earned loot.
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Old March 10th 14, 06:07 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Monday, March 10, 2014 3:44:04 PM UTC, Mike Collins wrote:
RichA wrote:

The Eurotrash socialists are busy bankrupting their countries by


squandering money on solar and wind power. Spain was a good example of


this. I hardly think they'll pony up any more money for a space mission.

 




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