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[ObserverStatus]

I found this article on The Christian Science Monitor, Commander Shepard would be proud.

http://www.csmonitor...to-probe-Uranus
The mission would involve sending a nuclear powered probe on a 15 year flight to Uranus in order to study the planet and it's satelites.

[Fortlowe]

Cthulhu and a group of randy Greys already beat them to it.

[Guardsman234]

CHRISTIAN Science Monitor?! *slowly begins to rage*

[Darthnemesis2]

That's all bad.

[vometia]

Part of me wants to take this seriously because it's quite interesting, but unfortunately the noisier part of me has come over all Beavis and Butthead. Sigh.

[Druss99]

vometia wrote...

Part of me wants to take this seriously because it's quite interesting, but unfortunately the noisier part of me has come over all Beavis and Butthead. Sigh.

Me too. It was going well until I read the words "flight to Uranus" then I just had to laugh.

Modifié par Druss99, 12 janvier 2011 - 11:55 .

[vometia]

Druss99 wrote...

Me too. It was going well until I read the words "flight to Uranus" then I just had to laugh.

Sometimes I wish I was more grown up.

Admittedly, not very often.  Or sincerely.

Edit: I'm feeling rather shame-faced now.  I'll try to behave from now on, at least here.

Modifié par vometia, 13 janvier 2011 - 12:03 .

[Druss99]

vometia wrote...

Druss99 wrote...

Me too. It was going well until I read the words "flight to Uranus" then I just had to laugh.

Sometimes I wish I was more grown up.

Admittedly, not very often.  Or sincerely.

Other people wish I was more grown up. Let them have their dreams I say.

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

All the really mature people know that maturity is overrated.

[vometia]

Captain Cornhole wrote...

Seriously though the complexity of the Universe never ceases to amazing me. Quick question, do gas giants have any land mass? I was under the impression once that they did.

I don't think they do: I vaguely recall they have a solid(ish) core under all the murk, but that's about as close as it gets.  Shame, really: when I was younger I'd think about how cool it'd be to land on them and explore these strange, exotic worlds, but it looks like there's nothing to actually land on.  Besides, the weather would be terrible.

[Mecha Tengu]

in b4 really really bad pun

[Morbo]

Eh, why Uranus? Neptune seems to be the more interesting option of the 2 ice giants for exploration, because of how it's still not very well understood why it radiates so much more heat than it receives from the sun (giving rise to 2000 km/h wind speeds), and because of its moon Triton, which is one of the few bodies in the solar system known to be geologically active.

Captain Cornhole wrote...

Seriously though the complexity of the Universe never ceases to amazing me. Quick question, do gas giants have any land mass? I was under the impression once that they did.

No real land masses no. They have rocky cores though (which, according to some, might have some nice amounts of diamond in them), and the ice giants like Uranus and Neptune might have some rocky bits floating around their mantles.

[Druss99]

Captain Cornhole wrote...

Really a 15 year flight? I would have gladly volunteered, this saving them alot of trouble.

Seriously though the complexity of the Universe never ceases to amazing me. Quick question, do gas giants have any land mass? I was under the impression once that they did.

I was under that impression too but then I got the impression they didn't.

I looked up wikipedia and I'm still kinda lost which I suppose is the norm for wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant

Edit: Ok Morbo beat me to it and he is clearly wiser. I should also point out that I've been giggling at the term "gas giant" and praying that I never experience a gas giant with a rocky core.

Modifié par Druss99, 13 janvier 2011 - 12:52 .

[joey_mork84]

Captain Cornhole wrote...

Really a 15 year flight? I would have gladly volunteered, this saving them alot of trouble.

Seriously though the complexity of the Universe never ceases to amazing me. Quick question, do gas giants have any land mass? I was under the impression once that they did.

There's no land mass that is solid, I don't believe. I vaguely recall seeing an article back in HS about how the centers of the gas giants are pressurized to the point where its all super-heated rock and gases, sort of like what's at the center of the sun. So what little solid matter is there, is more than likely molten rock.

[chunkyman]

Mr Mxyzptlk wrote...

All the really mature people know that maturity is overrated.

That is truly one of the smartest things I've ever heard.

[ObserverStatus]

Captain Cornhole wrote...

Really a 15 year flight? I would have gladly volunteered, this saving them alot of trouble.

Seriously though the complexity of the Universe never ceases to amazing me. Quick question, do gas giants have any land mass? I was under the impression once that they did.

That's what they want to figure out. Supposedly, the solid portions of Uranus and Neptune are greater in proportion to their overall size than those of Jupiter and Saturn.

[ObserverStatus]

joey_mork84 wrote...

Captain Cornhole wrote...

Really a 15 year flight? I would have gladly volunteered, this saving them alot of trouble.

Seriously though the complexity of the Universe never ceases to amazing me. Quick question, do gas giants have any land mass? I was under the impression once that they did.

There's no land mass that is solid, I don't believe. I vaguely recall seeing an article back in HS about how the centers of the gas giants are pressurized to the point where its all super-heated rock and gases, sort of like what's at the center of the sun. So what little solid matter is there, is more than likely molten rock.

Actually according to the article, it may be composed of ice and rock.

CSMonitor wrote...
“We tend to group Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as the gas
giant planets. But Jupiter and Saturn are dominated by hydrogen and
helium with small rocky cores.“When you go to Uranus and Neptune
you find their composition is dominated a lot more by rock and ice.
There is a lot more water in their atmospheres, a lot more methane.”He
added: “One of the big mysteries about Uranus is that it doesn’t emit
much heat at all. Its axis is also highly tilted to its orbit so
essentially it rolls around the solar system.“It is thought that
something the size of Mars or Earth hit Uranus early in the solar
system and tilted it into its side, and that may have caused a massive
loss of primordial heat.”

[joey_mork84]

Yea, I wasn't sure how reliable that info was. I'd only heard that back in HS, some 10 or 12 years ago.

[Giant ambush beetle]

What? Nasa probes studying UrAnus? What a crap idea!

Modifié par The Woldan , 13 janvier 2011 - 02:26 .

[slimgrin]

I thought EDI did the probing.

[Some Dude]

Thats funny, was going to happen eventually

[FreezaSama]

Best thread title ever.

[Jeff BilgeWater_]

 
Obama kicks off 2012 campaign?

^Now this thread just got better.

[ObserverStatus]

eh, what?