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Author Topic: Curiosity Mission: Shutting Down 2016  (Read 138389 times)

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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #435 on: August 25, 2012, 01:24:50 am »

A shortage? Strqnge, last thing I heard was that the military was selling of their helium reserves.
-_- How long ago was that?
Last thing I heard they wanted to get rid of the entire stockpile before 2015.
Facking facker fack. NEED HELIUM.
Wait. Is this where the "Let's put a balloon in LEO" thing spawned?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #436 on: August 25, 2012, 01:25:59 am »

A shortage? Strqnge, last thing I heard was that the military was selling of their helium reserves.
-_- How long ago was that?
Last thing I heard they wanted to get rid of the entire stockpile before 2015.
Facking facker fack. NEED HELIUM.
Wait. Is this where the "Let's put a balloon in LEO" thing spawned?
Yep.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #437 on: August 25, 2012, 01:27:24 am »

A shortage? Strqnge, last thing I heard was that the military was selling of their helium reserves.
-_- How long ago was that?
Last thing I heard they wanted to get rid of the entire stockpile before 2015.
Facking facker fack. NEED HELIUM.
Wait. Is this where the "Let's put a balloon in LEO" thing spawned?
Yep.
Right. Carry on, then. Today, orbit. Tomorrow, moon lasers.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #438 on: August 25, 2012, 01:28:52 am »

A shortage? Strqnge, last thing I heard was that the military was selling of their helium reserves.
-_- How long ago was that?
Last thing I heard they wanted to get rid of the entire stockpile before 2015.
Facking facker fack. NEED HELIUM.
Wait. Is this where the "Let's put a balloon in LEO" thing spawned?
Yep.
Right. Carry on, then. Today, orbit. Tomorrow, moon lasers.
Speaking of lasers: I must go to toorcamp.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #439 on: August 25, 2012, 03:00:38 am »

Top Tip: Dont throw empty beer cans into the reciever dish of a LIDAR that is measring the composition of the upper atmosphere. Turns out people get pissed when thier results indicate little other than huge amounts water and ethanol...

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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #440 on: August 25, 2012, 03:54:07 am »

Speaking of lasers: I must go to toorcamp.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #441 on: August 25, 2012, 06:43:02 am »

Speaking of lasers: I must go to toorcamp.
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Orbital plasma bombardment. We're being glassed, people. Who wants to throw a party?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #442 on: August 25, 2012, 06:52:52 am »

Speaking of lasers: I must go to toorcamp.
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What is that thing?
Orbital plasma bombardment. We're being glassed, people. Who wants to throw a party?

It's a photonic beam project. Ie a laser.

It's used to measure the athmospheric diffusion, which as you can see, is rather high.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #443 on: August 25, 2012, 10:35:08 am »

Hmm. Maybe you can attach me to this "balloon" of yours, and then I punch out the sky from that, instead of hassling with the plane?
What, you don't want to try punching out space?
I don't know. I really don't want to make any black holes.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #444 on: August 25, 2012, 10:38:11 am »

Unless your punches create matter, there won't be any black holes.

If you somehow tear the fabric of the universe, then the opposite will probably happen and a bunch of empty space will be made, lowering the universe's total density, creating a relativistic shockwave, and possibly pushing things around at FTL speeds.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #445 on: August 25, 2012, 10:49:18 am »

FTL!

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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #446 on: August 25, 2012, 12:01:54 pm »

FTL!

Levitating over the rails, can someone give me some more info on titan and what we plan to do there?
Floating a nuclear boat on lakes made of Methane.
The standard stuff, take samples, blast things with lasers, search for life. Nothing special.

Sadly, due to budget issues, the NASA isn't going anywhere.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #447 on: August 25, 2012, 02:27:52 pm »

The standard stuff, take samples, blast things with lasers, search for life. Nothing special.

When exactly was it that we left modern times and entered the future?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #448 on: August 25, 2012, 02:35:46 pm »

The standard stuff, take samples, blast things with lasers, search for life. Nothing special.

When exactly was it that we left modern times and entered the future?

It feels great for this to seem so normal.

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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #449 on: August 25, 2012, 02:36:27 pm »

I think we hit "the future" sometime in the 80s. Even had the weird clothing.
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