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[Aklyon]

by horrible latency, you mean about 22 minutes, with periods of no internet because the sun is in the way?

How high is 22 minutes in ping?

[kaijyuu]

1320000.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Still better than Counterstrike.

[sluissa]

Ping should actually be round trip time as well. So it'd actually be 2640000 ms

[Oliolli]

And that is why I want all manner of SP games with me if I move off-planet.

[Scoops Novel]

Can i be enlightened with more information on the frog leaping from comet to comet? I'm guessing to look at their structure and the chemicals upon them to see if they'd be a valid carrier of the ingredients of life?

[RedKing]

Actually, it's was leaping from spot to spot on the same comet (Comet Wirtanen, IIRC). The idea is that the comet is going to be sublimating as it approaches the sun, and the probe would hop around to different spots on it, measuring and analysing the changes in the surface as the comet "melts" to give us a better understanding of both the composition and the physical processes at work in a comet. Pretty danged cool. But not as cool as a Titan floaty boat, IMHO.

[Scoops Novel]

Yep. More funding needed.

[Sheb]

I wonder if NASA could fund some of these missions using Kickstarter or something similar. I'm pretty sure they could, you'd find people willing to pay 10,000$ to have their name etched on a nuclear raft on Titan.

[Scoops Novel]

At least a 100000.

[RedKing]

I wonder if NASA could fund some of these missions using Kickstarter or something similar. I'm pretty sure they could, you'd find people willing to pay 10,000$ to have their name etched on a nuclear raft on Titan.

Especially if you phrase it like that.

"Yeah, your college wants you to donate a few hundred bucks to have your name printed on a brick. We want you to donate to have your name etched with a laser onto the hull of a nuclear-powered boat which we'll put on top of a rocket, fly a billion kilometers, and land on the oceans of motherfucking TITAN. Your choice."

[Sheb]

And I mean, those guys got 10,000,000 for a watch with a led screen on it. You only need roughly 50 time that for a nuclear-powered boat.

Plus, if they do it now, it might prompt Romney to go "If I'm president, NASA will not have to beg for funding. Hey, we can't let Chinese pledge money for our nuclear-powered boats!", and Obama will have to include a funding raise in his campaign platform. Huzzay!

[palsch]

Not really direct, but Uwingu are looking to fund space science by selling space merch, and they have an indigogo drive to try to get it off the ground.

[MonkeyHead]

Ok, where do we go to set up the B12 crowdsourced space programme? I am sure we have enough people with relevant skills to get something into low earth orbit at least...

[kaijyuu]

Well, maybe "low earth" but I dunno about the "orbit" part.