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Pronouced with a soft sound, it sound's like it comes form essex, not orbiting Pluto. By the way, is the 'a' meant to be soft or hard? (kharon/kay-ron)
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Da_bang80
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Mmmm. Lesbian Planetoids! I think you just found the worlds newest Porn fad! Planets of the Solar System Uncut! Nude and Naughty Stellar Bodies!
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I know *you* do, but that comment was aimed directly at Dukhat.
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OnToMars
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quote:Er....this baby has a nuclear power supply- so "barely over the limit" could have become "and those reckless morons at NASA allowed it to go up in unsafe conditions, leading to a huge ecological disaster...."
I'm sure that NASA's official word on the people having to wait for another launch is "Fuck 'em."
No. Had the rocket exploded during launch, the worst possible case scenario would be that people affected would receive 80% of the radiation they would typically absorb in a year. Not a giant deal. And if it were truly unsafe, NASA would never have let the thing be built and launched in the first place.
quote: As far as the launch delays go, I expect the folks at NASA are more interested in getting the probe safely into space so they can make the scientific studies they devote their lives to, then in a bunch of slack-jawed yokels who "wanna see tha rocker-ship go up".
No offense.
Yes, this is true. But my main issue is not with robbing slack-jawed yokels and gangly tourists of their afternoon show. Rather, my issue is that with this mentality prevalent, spaceflight will never achieve the type of reliability and dependability that an established infrastructure requires. Yes, NASA is safety concious and rightfully so. The problem is that they are too safety concious, to the point where they are playing things so safe they aren't playing at all. And quite a few people in NASA agree with me.
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quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: Pronouced with a soft sound, it sound's like it comes form essex, not orbiting Pluto. By the way, is the 'a' meant to be soft or hard? (kharon/kay-ron)
TGB
Aincent Greek does not have the soft "sh" sound. "Charon" sounds like "Karen" or sometimes "Care-on". I've heard ot butchered as badly as "Char-On" (in the wildly inaccurate Clash of the Titans stop-motion-spectacular!)
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