How do you solve a problem like Cassini?

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How will the Cassini space probe be decommissioned?

I find two things interesting about this article:

First: as I go on and on about, it's relatively easy, even with our backward propulsion technologies, to get from a gas giant to anywhere else in the Solar System.

Second: Fans of human habitation in space should think about the implications of "Mission planners make great effort not to contaminate alien worlds with terrestrial life."


By the way, this is the time for all the anti-nuke lunatics to start screaming about polluting space with radioactive plutonium.

How do you solve a problem like Cassini?

Seen via nexstarman:

How will the Cassini space probe be decommissioned?

I find two things interesting about this article:

First: as I go on and on about, it's relatively easy, even with our backward propulsion technologies, to get from a gas giant to anywhere else in the Solar System.

Second: Fans of human habitation in space should think about the implications of "Mission planners make great effort not to contaminate alien worlds with terrestrial life."


By the way, this is the time for all the anti-nuke lunatics to start screaming about polluting space with radioactive plutonium.

How do you solve a problem like Cassini?

Seen via nexstarman:

How will the Cassini space probe be decommissioned?

I find two things interesting about this article:

First: as I go on and on about, it's relatively easy, even with our backward propulsion technologies, to get from a gas giant to anywhere else in the Solar System.

Second: Fans of human habitation in space should think about the implications of "Mission planners make great effort not to contaminate alien worlds with terrestrial life."


By the way, this is the time for all the anti-nuke lunatics to start screaming about polluting space with radioactive plutonium.

Hot Jets!

How do you move a trillion solar masses worth of dust?

Hot Jets!

How do you move a trillion solar masses worth of dust?

Hot Jets!

How do you move a trillion solar masses worth of dust?

I suppose it makes sense

While exploring all the features I now have on my LJ, it occured to me to look people up by school.

As far as I can tell, there's exactly one WODSSian with a LJ who is about my age and they are half a decade younger than I am. One would expect the sample to be dominated by people who are younger than I am (and by a lot, given the average age LJ users) but as far as I can tell, everyone is younger than I am. If I have worked all this out correctly, if everone else is younger than me, then I must therefore be the oldest WODSS alumnus on livejournal.

Bastards. I bet I have the least hair, too.

I suppose it makes sense

While exploring all the features I now have on my LJ, it occured to me to look people up by school.

As far as I can tell, there's exactly one WODSSian with a LJ who is about my age and they are half a decade younger than I am. One would expect the sample to be dominated by people who are younger than I am (and by a lot, given the average age LJ users) but as far as I can tell, everyone is younger than I am. If I have worked all this out correctly, if everone else is younger than me, then I must therefore be the oldest WODSS alumnus on livejournal.

Bastards. I bet I have the least hair, too.

I suppose it makes sense

While exploring all the features I now have on my LJ, it occured to me to look people up by school.

As far as I can tell, there's exactly one WODSSian with a LJ who is about my age and they are half a decade younger than I am. One would expect the sample to be dominated by people who are younger than I am (and by a lot, given the average age LJ users) but as far as I can tell, everyone is younger than I am. If I have worked all this out correctly, if everone else is younger than me, then I must therefore be the oldest WODSS alumnus on livejournal.

Bastards. I bet I have the least hair, too.

Autodarwinification in Great Britain

I have never considered doing this, nor do I expect to ever consider doing this.

Autodarwinification in Great Britain

I have never considered doing this, nor do I expect to ever consider doing this.

Autodarwinification in Great Britain

I have never considered doing this, nor do I expect to ever consider doing this.

What went wrong? Neocons weigh in

The reasons seem to range from a failure to truly understand the beauty that is David Frum Thought to a hideous gynocracy centered in George's harem.

Adelman believes that neoconservatism itself [...] is dead, at least for a generation.

What went wrong? Neocons weigh in

The reasons seem to range from a failure to truly understand the beauty that is David Frum Thought to a hideous gynocracy centered in George's harem.

Adelman believes that neoconservatism itself [...] is dead, at least for a generation.

What went wrong? Neocons weigh in

The reasons seem to range from a failure to truly understand the beauty that is David Frum Thought to a hideous gynocracy centered in George's harem.

Adelman believes that neoconservatism itself [...] is dead, at least for a generation.

For Donald Rumsfeld

We're thinking of you in this time of pain.

By the way, if liberal Americans threaten to run away to Canada when faced with set-backs, where do conservative Americans threaten to run off to when they lose? Or do they?

For Donald Rumsfeld

We're thinking of you in this time of pain.

By the way, if liberal Americans threaten to run away to Canada when faced with set-backs, where do conservative Americans threaten to run off to when they lose? Or do they?

For Donald Rumsfeld

We're thinking of you in this time of pain.

By the way, if liberal Americans threaten to run away to Canada when faced with set-backs, where do conservative Americans threaten to run off to when they lose? Or do they?

The Eye of Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.

The Eye of Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.

The Eye of Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.

Dirty Politics in Canada

Anonymous Letter Writer Reveals That Gay Candidate is a Homosexual Thirteen Years After Candidate Comes Out of Closet.

Dirty Politics in Canada

Anonymous Letter Writer Reveals That Gay Candidate is a Homosexual Thirteen Years After Candidate Comes Out of Closet.

Dirty Politics in Canada

Anonymous Letter Writer Reveals That Gay Candidate is a Homosexual Thirteen Years After Candidate Comes Out of Closet.