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nasa snippets

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kimk

Post Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:51 pm

nasa snippets

saturn's moons

its amazing the kinda of relations they make to astronomy.. i missed all those stuff in the book.

oldest planet
^that one is about the new planet that was discovered.

anyways, copyright to nasa and all those mentioned in the links.

Science is knowledge.
Knowledge is power.
Time is money.
power = work/time
therefore, knowledge= work/money
therefore, money = work/knowledge
therefore, money is inversely proportional to knowledge.

therefore,

The more knowledge you have, the less money you have.

Prepare for the worst, for you have read the worst.

Edited by - kimk on 15-07-2003 13:58:24

Arcon

Post Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:16 am

Correct. Jupiter's moon Europa is way too cold for mice: 260° F below zero. Spacecraft have taken pictures of Europa's icy surface, and it looks totally lifeless.

Really? god damnit i was gonna use Europa as a base of operations for 'Operation: Mouse Ivasion' but if its too cold for them then the mission is scrapped...DAMN YOU NASA!

-arcon
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freighter fighter

Post Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:54 pm

interesting

Jevryn Markes

Post Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:41 pm

Which makes Station Kennedy in the opening cinematic of Starlancer all the more puzzling, as the city/base certainly did not look like it was sitting atop a frozen ocean.

"Best start believing in devils, love-- because you're dancing with one."

Tachyon

Post Thu Jul 17, 2003 5:25 pm

Well, the ice is going to be pretty thick you know.

Jevryn Markes

Post Thu Jul 17, 2003 6:41 pm

The very fact that Europa has a perfectly smooth surface is because the ice is continually melting and freezing, thus erasing impact craters and tectonic (or whatever you call the stress upon ice) features on the surface.

The heat needed for this process is greated by the massive tidal shifts the moon experiences in its relatively close orbit to Jupiter. The moon of Io shares the same heating for the same reasons, but taken to the extreme that that moon is in a state of perpetual distortion and heating. Europa doesn't get it as badly as Io does, but it still gets it.

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