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Venus EXPRESS is alive, as is the planet, as is Guth
Geoffrey A. Landis,
A very good topic contribution about Venus being robotically obtainable, especially of the nighttime season as efficiently cruising a robotic aircraft or rigid airship just below those relatively cool clouds. With that much buoyancy and thick soup of a mostly CO2 atmosphere for aerodynamics, such a craft could damn near be made of iron. Venus exploration paper http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...e31e0714cc30b4 As of lately, via Venus EXPRESS, it seems as though Venus isn't looking nearly as hot by way of that season of nighttime. BTW; this nifty report (all 13 pages worth) is at least taking us in the right direction. http://mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/...enus_IAF04.pdf I tend to believe it's still all about the ongoing scientific community of damage-control, as simply an ongoing act of these Usenet folks and rusemasters saving each and every one of their mutually remorseless butts by way of keeping another lid on it, whereas it seems we haven't been getting the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Venus, instead we've been given the usual infomercial-science that'll basically suit whatever's in the best interest of sustaining their mainstream status quo. However, I'd have to suppose, if you had already researched and thereby having invested by way of having extensively published, that by day or night the surface of Venus is within 10 K of being at a constant/average of 730 K, as such you sure as hell wouldn't want the likes of any new and improved PFS readings from that pesky ESA Venus EXPRESS mission getting through. You'd have to believe that all efforts and at all cost would have been made in order to foil any such interactive measures at getting that otherwise nifty and robust instrument up and running, and I do believe that's exactly what our crack wizards do best. As having been rather oddly posted under "The Paranormal & Ghost Society", thereby seemingly hocus-pocus worthy to start off with; I tend to believe this article is 100% of their ongoing damage control, of their continuing efforts to exclude or otherwise foil the most critical aspects of accomplishing thermal and composition readings of what the Venus EXPRESS mission was all about. Mirror jams on Venus Express spacecraft http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9123 There's nothing that's actually official from ESA as to any such "stuck mirror". There's not even so much as an official link posted of anything that's specifically derived from team 'Venus EXPRESS' that reinforces this article as published by NEW SCIENTIST and copied by all others, that's essentially as space.com owned and otherwise totally controlled and/or moderated to death by the very same degree of individuals that are deeply invested into supporting everything that's NASA. It's as though the PFS instrument manufacture is remaining as stealth as were all of those supposed Iraqi WMD and the likes of Usama bin Laden. I wonder how much that effort is costing us? NewScientist.com news service and the likes of Kelly Young are of nothing but brown-nosed minions to the very same status quo that says we've walked on the moon, thus born-again liars and of what's otherwise intellectually worse off than any Third Reich. Their "disclaimer" as having been "Published by Reed Business Information Limited" is basically nothing but another ruse from their side of the pond. New Scientist Limitation of liability: "To the full extent permissible by law Reed Business information Limited shall have no liability for any damage or loss (including, without limitation, financial loss, loss of profits, loss of business or any indirect or consequential loss), however it arises, resulting from the use of or inability to use this website or any material appearing on it or from any action or decision taken as a result of using the website or any such material." This basically means or represents that they can essentially publish absolutely anything they damn well feel like, and no matters what can not be held responsible in any way. (sounds exactly like Dick Cheney, GW Bush and company) BAA hasn't established what if anything the supposed PFS "stuck mirror" that still offers us no official mechanical or any other documentation as released from their Venus EXPRESS engineering and technical applications team, as having to do with otherwise extracting specific pixel by pixel thermal information from the ongoing thermal imaging process, whereas as at worse it reduces specific target thermal resolution and makes their imaging task and depth of penetration somewhat less productive than what could otherwise help in pinpointing those rather unusual thermal signatures of specific geothermal hot spots. As such, it doesn't otherwise restrict the greater capability of having established the thermal scale and diversity that can still be sufficiently extrapolated, as to obtaining the greater science from their recording of the mostly nighttime season of atmospheric and cloud thermal differentials. "PFS is designed to measure the chemical composition and temperature of the atmosphere of Venus. It is also able to measure surface temperature, and so search for signs of volcanic activity." Unfortunately, it's rather technically so much easier to merely exclude science by shutting down a given instrument reading from any given mission if deemed appropriate by those encharge, and it certainly wouldn't be the first nor the last time such moderation or scientific instrument exclusion tactics have been employed. As for otherwise we'd have been given the full mechanical specifications and drawings of that mirror portion of their PFS instrument, so as to better appreciate as to exactly how such absolute fools could have accomplished such an obvious R&D error, as to foil such a primary part of their entire mission. With the very same PFS instrument onboard their Mars EXPRESS: "The 'pendulum motor', used to drive various elements in the instrument optics, was shown to be at fault. The recovery was made possible through using internal instrument redundancy." Yet nothing of any such specific instrument internal drawings or other considerations given for the much newer Venus EXPRESS PFS effort, that you'd think should have had whatever instrument revisions/upgrades applied. Therefore, the best available surface temperature reading capability is supposedly unable to comply to it's own standards, much less accommodate the team effort as to what's most important about the entire mission. Oddly, the official ESA Venus EXPRESS "Status Reports" still have nothing much to say about any supposed "stuck mirror". However, all else is operating according to spec, and as though the PFS instrument never existed in the first place. Of course, once their mission frequencies and the software code is known, from that point on we can disrupt, deactivate or even damage a given science instrument from our command center, and entirely accomplish such without ESA or anyone else ever knowing what happened. At least thus far, the Venus EXPRESS team nor the instrument manufacturer have not seen fit to offering a clue as to why their otherwise robust and well proven PFS instrument isn't behaving. - Brad Guth |
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