Saturn's Sixtieth Moon Discovered

[calpoon]

ah yes, the famous cassini space probe...

The one that cost 3.4 billion dollars to make, used a titan IV ballistic missile to launch it, the same missile that had previously exploded on the launch pad of another NASA rocket test, with an estimated failure rate of one in ten/one in twenty and powered by a nuclear payload of 73 pounds of plutonium that came within just 312 miles of crashing into the earth on it's first orbit.

And had it crashed, NASA scientists state, "approximately 5 billion of the estimated 7 to 8 billion world population at the time of the swingbys could receive 99 percent or more of the radioactive exposure."

 

[alexios]

ah yes, the famous cassini space probe...

The one that cost 3.4 billion dollars to make, used a titan IV ballistic missile to launch it, the same missile that had previously exploded on the launch pad of another NASA rocket test, with an estimated failure rate of one in ten/one in twenty and powered by a nuclear payload of 73 pounds of plutonium that came within just 312 miles of crashing into the earth on it's first orbit.

And had it crashed, NASA scientists state, "approximately 5 billion of the estimated 7 to 8 billion world population at the time of the swingbys could receive 99 percent or more of the radioactive exposure."

That's one of those fun and quirky ways to receive radiation poisoning...it sure beats the hell out of nuclear warheads! :rofl:

 

[AFA]

That's one of those fun and quirky ways to receive radiation poisoning...it sure beats the hell out of nuclear warheads! :rofl:

Yes, and your Grandchildren will still be paying for it in taxes.

 

[Friday on my mind]

Yes, and your Grandchildren will still be paying for it in taxes.

They could do worse things with missles and dollars.....

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[AFA]

Friday[/URL][/B] on my mi, post: 1533423, member: 44516"]They could do worse things with missles and dollars.....

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[Friday on my mind]

I remember really being struck the first time I saw Dr.Strangelove as a kid by the writing on the bombs in Slims plane.I was like "there writing funny things on nuclear bombs?"Now thats a sense of humor lol.

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"Dear John"
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[D-rock]

ah yes, the famous cassini space probe...

The one that cost 3.4 billion dollars to make, used a titan IV ballistic missile to launch it, the same missile that had previously exploded on the launch pad of another NASA rocket test, with an estimated failure rate of one in ten/one in twenty and powered by a nuclear payload of 73 pounds of plutonium that came within just 312 miles of crashing into the earth on it's first orbit.

And had it crashed, NASA scientists state, "approximately 5 billion of the estimated 7 to 8 billion world population at the time of the swingbys could receive 99 percent or more of the radioactive exposure."

I didn't think the Earth had that many people back then. Do we even have 8 billion people now?

 

[alexios]

Major Kong: "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones."

 

[senob44]

I found the 61st moon...

:moon:

Hey chef, I think I spotted a moon orbiting Uranus! :moon::eyeso:

 

[Dean Wormer]

ah yes, the famous cassini space probe...

The one that cost 3.4 billion dollars to make, used a titan IV ballistic missile to launch it, the same missile that had previously exploded on the launch pad of another NASA rocket test, with an estimated failure rate of one in ten/one in twenty and powered by a nuclear payload of 73 pounds of plutonium that came within just 312 miles of crashing into the earth on it's first orbit.

And had it crashed, NASA scientists state, "approximately 5 billion of the estimated 7 to 8 billion world population at the time of the swingbys could receive 99 percent or more of the radioactive exposure."

You sound pissed that this scenario didn't happen.

 

[maildude]

Hmm... more mystery to unlock about moons orbiting large planets. Saturn's moon Titan is a helluva enigma. It has an atmosphere composed of methane, but how did the methane get there?