Bush Cancels trip to Pluto.

[Victor Galis]

"The SUV?"

-The world would be a far better place without it.

"Pioneer is still sending a signal once every month. Its way.....way beyond pluto."

-Yes, but are we getting anything from it? Not really. I'm all for a probe or two in deep space just to see how long we can keep track of them, but this is no more useful than crashing into a comet.

[Victor Galis]

"Why should we waste money on Osweld's sick scientific tastes? Maybe a bored country with science fanatics like Canada should fund space exploration. We gotta spend on military here. And why can Faded glory use racial slurs but no one else?"

-I see you would preffer going back to the dark ages then. All military spending, none of that silly learning stuff. Besides, NASA's budget couldn't buy too many more $900 hammers and $600 toilet seats.

[Provost Harrison]

Yes, but voyager has been very, very useful in the past and given us a great deal of info.

Well I am keen on seeing more science spending, not such fruitless pursuits as military spending...

[Victor Galis]

I have a feeling most right-wingers wouldn't like what I would do to the defense budget if i could

[History049]

Absolutely no point in saying that. I already know what you'd know, of course I don't like it, but I don't ponder on it. You're too radical and weak to ever be in any power dealing with military.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by faded glory


Pioneer is still sending a signal once every month. Its way.....way beyond pluto.

IIRC

Pioneer 10's transmitter died in 1998.
Pioneer 11's transmiter died in 1995.

Guess it didn't last forever either.

[TCO]

Fusion shmusion

Originally posted by Lonestar


Absolutely, GP, I think it is a travesty on how far and fast our national lab system has gone during the past decade. The Clinton-Gore administration, despite their enviromental claims, issued cuts on the Fusion project, even though we've nearly reached the break-even point.

I remember hearing this kinda crap when I was your age...

[KrazyHorse]

It'll come eventually.

[Dauphin]

My memory scares me at times

http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/sat_missns/sat-p11.html

Launch Date:
05-Apr-1973
Saturn flyby:
01-Sep-1979
End of Mission:
30-Sep-1995

The power source for the spacecraft was exhausted in 1995, so it can no longer be commanded.

http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/jup_missns/jup-p10.html

Launch Date:
02-Mar-1972
Jupiter Encounter Date:
03-Dec-1973
End of Mission:
31-Mar-1997

it will take another 2 million years for Pioneer 10 to reach the first star on its trajectory

Its way.....way beyond pluto

Way, way beyond Pluto is a relative phrase. In cosmic terms it hasn't pulled out the driveway.

[KrazyHorse]

It's gonna be as far as the Centaurus system in as little as ~41000 years.

[TCO]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat

The result was the Fisher space pen, of which I have several. They're great for taking field notes under ****ty conditions, and will write at any angle on virtually any surface. They're pretty good scuba diving, too.

They're part of the plebe issue at USNA...

[TCO]

Originally posted by DinoDoc


Do you think I need a better CPA?

Maybe you'd be able to afford MP, then...

[TCO]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
I have a feeling most right-wingers wouldn't like what I would do to the defense budget if i could

We don't care what you do with your country's defense budget.

[faded glory]

Oh im sorry crunch. I was under the impression it was still beaming.....


Ya its out there...bu tyour right. Only a few thousand years and we will be in alpha centaurii


Btw didnt we put an engravement message inside for extra terreriastials? Engraving in Hyroglyphics who we were..we come in peace.if we were no longer on earth we probably wiped each other out with Nukes.

[Dauphin]

Lambda Aquila system....

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
It's gonna be as far as the Centaurus system in as little as ~41000 years.

Yep, as far as, but its not headed in the direction of the Centaurus system.