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Jan 16, 2015 11:50:59 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Jan 16, 2015 11:50:59 GMT
Good Lord, it's intact! I wounder if they could ever get it working.
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Jan 16, 2015 12:43:32 GMT
Post by legios on Jan 16, 2015 12:43:32 GMT
Lovely to see it made it down to the surface at least, much more nearly successful than we thought. Sadly, short of someone going down and manually coaxing the solar panels out of the way it is still as dead as a doorrnail, between the fact that it hasn't enough power and the fact that the radio antenna apparently won't work because it is hidden under the panels. :-(
Karl
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Jan 16, 2015 12:50:07 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 16, 2015 12:50:07 GMT
A shame Colin Pillenger didn't live to hear this news.
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Jan 16, 2015 12:53:47 GMT
Post by legios on Jan 16, 2015 12:53:47 GMT
Indeed. He would have loved being able to say "I told you so."
Karl
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Jan 16, 2015 14:46:15 GMT
Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 16, 2015 14:46:15 GMT
A great success indeed vindicated in many ways. Although I have the strongest urge to shake whoever designed the antenna (your most essential component) to be in dependent on sections that might be prone to simple mechanical failure.
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Jan 16, 2015 18:44:58 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Jan 16, 2015 18:44:58 GMT
It is a real shame Colin Pillinger is not still with us to see this news. Let's not forget that he was vilified and mocked by the British media for many years by idiots who forget that even getting a craft anywhere near another celestial body is still one of the great human achievements in history.
Fantastic news. Really fantastic.
-Ralph
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Jan 16, 2015 19:52:17 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 16, 2015 19:52:17 GMT
Yup,
Shame he has passed on before we learned this.
Andy
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Jan 20, 2015 8:04:59 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 20, 2015 8:04:59 GMT
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Jan 20, 2015 16:34:23 GMT
Post by legios on Jan 20, 2015 16:34:23 GMT
Interesting. Something to wait for more data on rather than something to leap to conclusions about, but certainly fascinating.
(If there are Earth-mass worlds out even further than Pluto then they are going to be very, very hostile environments indeed too.
Karl
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Jan 20, 2015 18:31:50 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 20, 2015 18:31:50 GMT
More data needed indeed. I am highly skeptical.
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Jan 21, 2015 20:29:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 21, 2015 20:29:23 GMT
The Cybermen are out there...
-Ralph
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Jan 22, 2015 23:04:22 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 22, 2015 23:04:22 GMT
We should start preparing for them!
Andy
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Jan 23, 2015 20:02:20 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Jan 23, 2015 20:02:20 GMT
We could prepare for them by turning ourselves into human/robot hybrids of some sort, you know, augment ourselves with technology. Then we'd be able to defeat them!
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Jan 23, 2015 20:37:53 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 23, 2015 20:37:53 GMT
You will be like usszzzzzzzzz...
-The Cybermen
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Jan 25, 2015 19:47:31 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 25, 2015 19:47:31 GMT
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Jan 25, 2015 20:01:58 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 25, 2015 20:01:58 GMT
Where's my ice giant probe damnit?!!
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Jan 25, 2015 21:23:18 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Jan 25, 2015 21:23:18 GMT
Pluto is a planet!
-Ralph
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Jan 25, 2015 23:21:35 GMT
Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 25, 2015 23:21:35 GMT
Yes a dwarf planet.
Now where's my ice giant mission? Far more to see at them than one small rock and a few small moons.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:41:03 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 27, 2015 21:41:03 GMT
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Jan 27, 2015 22:22:42 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 27, 2015 22:22:42 GMT
I'm so excited about New Horizons. Wedding Day/Birth of Children/MP Prowl excited.
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Jan 28, 2015 19:17:19 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 28, 2015 19:17:19 GMT
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Jan 31, 2015 9:33:55 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 31, 2015 9:33:55 GMT
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Jan 31, 2015 12:50:08 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 31, 2015 12:50:08 GMT
Given that they based a crucial calculation off a photo of somebody elses slide at a conference rather than waiting for the actual data to be released they deserved to be proved wrong. A silly attempt to be 'first', an intellectual attempt at theft of data and once again a publicity orientated rather than peer reviewed publication strategy. They got everything they deserved.
Little wonder the research group involved has been tearing itself apart over this.
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Jan 31, 2015 13:52:27 GMT
Post by legios on Jan 31, 2015 13:52:27 GMT
Owch. Yeah, sounds like this was a case of folk making fairly wild leaps before they had actually looked at their data properly. The correct approach is to say "I don't know" until you have properly reviewed the data you have gathered - at least, that is the way I was taught to do science.
Karl
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Jan 31, 2015 18:06:12 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 31, 2015 18:06:12 GMT
They didn't even have the data in the first place! They guesstimated a big important factor based on what they saw at a conference talk from a different group by accounts.
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Feb 5, 2015 19:26:32 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 5, 2015 19:26:32 GMT
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Feb 6, 2015 14:29:35 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 6, 2015 14:29:35 GMT
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Feb 9, 2015 13:26:19 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 9, 2015 13:26:19 GMT
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Feb 9, 2015 19:58:30 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Feb 9, 2015 19:58:30 GMT
That made me giddy! But is was awesome.
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Feb 9, 2015 20:50:46 GMT
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