Watched The Martian in the morning and then closed off the day watching NASA insert a spacecraft into Jupiter orbit. I'm on a NASA/JPL high right now!
Live coverage of Juno's Jupiter Orbit Insertion [video]
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#32This cracks me up! Jupiter's moons were named after Jupiter's mistresses. Juno was his wife..
> Juno was his wife.. Was...? Now that's some dedicated faith, still practising Ancient Roman religions!
The only real error is the parent comment not using literary present tense, but that is being pedantic at best.
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#34Thought all these posts were about classic Roland polyphonic synthesizers for a second...
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#35I had no idea. I was listening to this on the radio this morning. I was not sure if they were narrating a science fiction work like a movie or if it was real news.
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#36Cool! I did note that everybody in their control room is wearing identical grey polos... guess somebody really doesn't want a repeat of the shirt incident.
Let me save everyone else a google query: http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/the-outrage-machine-insande-ado... That shirt is 80s AF \m/ I can see how it might not fly at work though, at least not on a big PR day.
"Over the last few days, we have learned that mankind can chase down a comet speeding through space at 34,000 mph, but resisting the outrage machine, kicked into high gear over a trifle, is completely beyond its powers."
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#37This cracks me up! Jupiter's moons were named after Jupiter's mistresses. Juno was his wife..
Well, Ganymede was a guy, and the relationship between him and Zeus is a matter of some debate (inasmuch as mythical stories like this could be debated). Xenophon maintained that the relationship between Zeus and Ganymede was platonic.
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#38I didn't realize Juno would have such a large capture orbit. 54 days and change to complete one pass. Makes sense though. They way they are skirting the Ionian radiation torus is pretty slick.
Remember that they are choosing an orbit that allows Juno to keep facing the sun as well.