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Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by Symmetry » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 10:31 PM UTC

Nice website. There are a lot of cool probes in active mode now like New Horizons and DAWN. For the future I think the probe I'm most excited about is Hayabusa 2, scheduled to grab a piece of an asteroid around 2018 and return in 2020.

Re: SpaceProbes

#32

Post by hiharryhere » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 12:31 AM UTC

Love this site. I saw it pop up somewhere a few months ago and bought the big poster for my room. Looks fantastic.

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by nodesocket » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 12:31 AM UTC

ahayschi wrote: post #29

Check out the playlist linked in the Voyagers of the Golden Records sounds http://web.mit.edu/lilybui/www/

I like to fantasize about alien life playing the gold record and hearing Chuck Berry's classic, Johnny B. Goode. That guitar riff is so great.

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by juliangregorian » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 12:46 AM UTC

alexivanovs wrote: post #6

"The golden record was curated by Carl Sagan and others in hopes of it one day reaching an extraterrestrial spacefaring civilization." I'm fairly certain that extraterrestrial life is more aware of our planet than we are ourselves, and have been since the beginning of time. Then again, this is a strictly technology site and spiritual matter is seen as evil and unproven factor in the ecosystem of Earth.

I'm fairly certain it's not, but that's an equally unfalsifiable and worthless opinion, so agree to disagree?

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by nodesocket » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 1:31 AM UTC

Awesome job. One addition that would be cool is adding the current speed for each probe.

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Post by calgoo » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:12 PM UTC

I wish you could add the distance in light seconds, minutes and hours as well. After reading a lot of SciFi it has become a lot easier to think of the biiiig distances in space in light travel time like 1.25 light seconds vs. 374740 km.

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