The Phone Company. They had a beautiful system, but if they hadn't got addicted to charging you $1.75/month for a long handset cord, there'd be no such thing as "cable TV" or "the internet."
"Radiation! You hear the most outrageous lies about it! Half-baked goggle-box do-gooder telling everyone it's bad? Pernicious nonsense! Everyone could stand to have 50 chest x rays a year…and they ought to have them, too."
Need something for
|the evening?|
A Leroy Carr/Scrapper Blackwell tune with added shout , and honk. Also Mickey Baker. Says Jesse Stone on piano, could be…….
On the NASA page they show the last pic the spacecraft took before shutting down for insertion. Just a random snap of the Jupiter family. This Is SO FUCKING COOL.
I'm remembering (hazily) that the Soviets actually lofted pocked Nuke reactors up in one of their sypsat varieties. One crashed in a lake in Canada and the locals (apparently) saw the reactor sitting on the ice till it burned through.
2329 EDT. I'm hoping that in 53 days, when all the instrument data and neato photos arrive it's going to be at a more comfortable time for an early rising Easterner.
Protip: If you haven't installed | NASA's Eyes| (and you have Mac or Windows – and I think there's an Android App For That) Do. It. Now. Graphics are flat-out Awesome.
Success, actually! Good for them. Good for the idea of the human race having some purpose beyond racking up enough $$$ in the 401(k) for a comfortable retirement!
I like the fact that Juno's placed into such a wildly eccentric orbit because Jupiter's close environment is such a hellhole of radiation, dust, rocks, cometary debris and furious electromagnetisim that they have to minimize the probe's exposure.
These guys could make an orgy seem boring.
It's all about preparation, or preparation H
What's with all the macbooks at JPL? LOL, silly engineers, you can't do science with a mac!
"Mission Support Area"
"C'mon, Juno, you can do it!"
Are the people associated with the mission called "missionaries"? Please advise.
Well, they do have a position.
How do you know I’m god?
Simple. When I pray to him, I find I am talking to myself.
Which one is 'E.T.'?
Fuck, I'm watching NasaTV on my Roku via wireless internet and it's gone into 'loading' about 4 times already.
Roku blows. I should know, I have a bunch of 'em.
can you run them in parallel?
I finally have a decent internet connection, fiber to within about 200 meters of my house. So far good connection.
Fiber to the desktop or GTFO!
No shit! Funny, when I was at CWRU, they had fiber to every room in 1995.
I'm watching on my 1 Mb/s DSL. Thanks, AT&T
The Phone Company. They had a beautiful system, but if they hadn't got addicted to charging you $1.75/month for a long handset cord, there'd be no such thing as "cable TV" or "the internet."
The spacecraft is wearing strange shoes. They keep talking about “two tones”
No new pictures tonight? WTF?
You'll get no pictures and LIKE IT!
Nothing to see here.
that "NASA eyes on the solar system" app didn't work on my mac. Sent them a bug report
Real computers run Windows. They crash all the time and get viruses, but still….
I can't even get good viruses.
You can right click to switch between imperial and communist units.
"Radiation! You hear the most outrageous lies about it! Half-baked goggle-box do-gooder telling everyone it's bad? Pernicious nonsense! Everyone could stand to have 50 chest x rays a year…and they ought to have them, too."
At least no one at NASA is on speed.
No kidding. Get 'em some coffee.
Perhaps he's talking quietly so as not to wake his co-workers.
Is he talking from near a black hole? It's going realllll slooooowwww…
5 RPM. Whee!
Please try not to *ouke* until the ride is over.
No one brought pizza it looks like.
Bet they all have a grill going outside.
Do all male engineers have to be bald, or are they just in solidarity for a colleague?
Juno's initial liftoff blew off all of his hair.
The suspense is so palpable you can almost feel it.
H/T Dave Barry
"Jupiter is the king of the planets." Does it have the biggest penis?
you can't say penis…
Uh-oh. Just got moderated.
extreme moderation?
All right, got to go open another bottle of Cabernet. Hope I don't miss anything exciting.
pace yourself
Not to worry. I've built up a tremendous tolerance.
Game of Drones
Why do I get the annoying feeling they're being more careful with this than the Challenger launch?
These are the planetary guys. Relatively little political interest.
Spinning doesn't affect gravity, knucklehead…unless you're talking a neutron star…
In space no one can tell you to talk faster.
Obama has gutted the excitement out of NASA!!1!
This stuff is so routine now they broadcast it!
How come all the minorities and women are relegated to PR? I wonder if Larry Sommers has any thoughts on this matter.
People are kept in engineering and science as a punishment.
They put this woman in charge of navigation because a guy would never ask for directions.
Hahahaha….
Tristan Guillot? Is this NASA or some Frenchie thing?
"Tryst in Jeweled Yacht"?
Looking over the orbits they're going to put it into, seems they will avoid the worst part of the Van
HalenAllen Belts…If these people were a Star Fleet crew the aliens would have them outwitted while they were still discussing what the warning bells meant.
Speaking of gas giants, has Trump said anything stupid or bigoted in the last 15 minutes?
Steve is high.
Are we into our science orbits? Or are we into astrology orbits?
Your moon is in Taurus- not the time for reckless spending!
Need something for
|the evening?|
A Leroy Carr/Scrapper Blackwell tune with added shout , and honk. Also Mickey Baker. Says Jesse Stone on piano, could be…….
|Vann Walls|
Do you mind? We're waiting to hear the tones back from Juno.
Y'all are a lot funnier in this thread than normally.
Flatterer
It's fun to mock these nerds but by god this is incredibly cool.
I'm not knocking the scientists I'm knocking NASA PR people.
On the NASA page they show the last pic the spacecraft took before shutting down for insertion. Just a random snap of the Jupiter family. This Is SO FUCKING COOL.
Hey look, the Twilight Zone Marathon is on SyFy
'Obsolete! Obsolete!"
August 27th? Are they going to show old movies until then? I want pictures!!
Not tonight. NASA's got a headache.
Young scientists? Nonsense!
How'd this illegal get in here?
Build the damn high gain antenna!
Whoa, that kid isn't from Syria is he?
Thought he said Chile.
ISIS is everywhere.
There are no wrong answers- only perceived threats to national security.
did we get it?!?!
Why are we always 50 minutes behind Jupiter time? President Trump is going to fix that!
He's got all the best relativity.
He'll get the rocket trains to run on time.
Feel the burn/Bern! A tone at the start!
Like watching high tech paint drying.
I guess you'd get into trouble if you looked into your JPL screen and shouted "ALIENS"!
"That man is playing Galaga! He thought we wouldn't notice…but we did"
(smattering of applause)
Tracy Drain and Ms Yee, now talking to Thermal Lead Wil Santiago. To much political correctitude!
Great bands.
So if it overheats he takes the blame?
That is so hot!
Fuck Fahrenheit! Use real units!
"Fuck Fahrenheit! "
-Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit's little used but improbably successful pick-up line
It was an old wine cooler Steve wasn't using. Works great.
Do you have a selenite accelerator on hand? Doubtful that you do.
In the good old days they used to put nuclear reactors on these ships.
I'm liking this. In the old days solar cells weren't efficient enough to be considered as an alternative.
also, they weren't nuclear reactors- they were radioisotope thermo-electric generators. Plutonium 238, alpha decay only, generates heat.
I'm remembering (hazily) that the Soviets actually lofted pocked Nuke reactors up in one of their sypsat varieties. One crashed in a lake in Canada and the locals (apparently) saw the reactor sitting on the ice till it burned through.
I need to look this up, I think.. Ah yes! | The Kosmos 954! |
Why didn't they power it with clean burning coal?
No place to sequester the CO2.
Is the jury still out on sequester?
Sequester? I barely knew 'er.
"The spacecraft is capable of producing 3 kilowatts per hour, since it contains over 20 cubic liters of solar cells!"
2329 EDT. I'm hoping that in 53 days, when all the instrument data and neato photos arrive it's going to be at a more comfortable time for an early rising Easterner.
Protip: If you haven't installed | NASA's Eyes| (and you have Mac or Windows – and I think there's an Android App For That) Do. It. Now. Graphics are flat-out Awesome.
would if I could. Didn't work on my mac. sent a bug report
Boo. My install pushed an Update when I fired it up just now, but I'm Win 7 Pro.
I really hope it doesn't hit a Monolith…
As long as they steer clear of Europa.
Perijove is totes the name of my Jupiter Tribute band.
"Missions often use colorful acronyms. FUBAR, for example, means…"
Bull Shit all the instruments and cameras are off! All the instruments are committed to scanning the orbiting Monolith on this flyby.
WHY AREN'T THEY TELLING US THE TRUTH
Please. Didn't you think those chemtrails were a little too obvious?! It was a smoke screen for this!
HA! Good thing I never go anywhere without my colander hat and vinegar spray!
The truth is out there- but not as "out there" as some conspiracy theorists.
13 minutes and change remaining on the burn, according to Eyes.
Something something miles kilometers something.
Grey polo shirts. Planetary guys.
Why, under the animation of Jupiter, do they have "Serving Suggestion"?
What's with the ominous music? Probe lost?
Success, actually! Good for them. Good for the idea of the human race having some purpose beyond racking up enough $$$ in the 401(k) for a comfortable retirement!
ugh, and now my live feed freezes? Ah, we're back! High fives!
…and there was much rejoicing
WELCOME TO JUPITER!
Remember now: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa…"
Great food, and a lot of atmosphere.
I wonder how many folks had to suppress themselves getting on the PA and saying that.
AOT,K
"I've got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission."
Did someone say | Europa? |
Hey, my audio's out of sync. Like watching a Godzilla flick!
I like the fact that Juno's placed into such a wildly eccentric orbit because Jupiter's close environment is such a hellhole of radiation, dust, rocks, cometary debris and furious electromagnetisim that they have to minimize the probe's exposure.
yes, it really looks like it's tailored to do that. Fry you crisper'n the Colonel's chicken!
"Just going to dip in here from time to time and grab some data—Ouch! I'm outahere!"
Well, in just 53 days we'll find out if the aliens have stolen it.
Prediction: Alien selfies.
Looks like..sausages…
At times like these, the press often resorts to hyperbole to explain highly elliptical orbits.
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qP0JhVHvqsE/UCNQYU21nHI/AAAAAAAABjs/6LRFAuyUTOE/s1600/Juno+01+1024.jpg" width="400">
Happy Fourth of July, friends. Amercia can still do great things, and it makes me proud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBvVgRx7B8
I won't let that discourage me.
Do you repeat yourself when under stress?
My Mac is glacially slow and repeatedly pressing 'Submit Comment' finally yields results. Multipally.
No one can hear you anyways.
what?