News Nasa is planning trip to the sun?!?!

[jinglesassy]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20015500-76.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


HMMM, OK so what are the requirements for this probe?
Very strongly built
Massive heat shield
Extremely powerful transmitter
Sensors that can survive a few minutes at a few hundred thousand kelvin


Well atleast power wont be a problem! Well atleast until they melt....

 

[Shadow Addict]

I can't comment on how viable a program like this is so I'll just say what came to my mind:

THAT IS SO BADASS. Can't wait til the media gets a hold of this and reports on NASA bombing the Sun!

 

[Lucy]

Let me be the first and last to make this comment on this thread:

They'll have to go at night.

There. Now it's said. Nobody else has to say it.

 

[jinglesassy]

I can't comment on how viable a program like this is so I'll just say what came to my mind:

THAT IS SO BADASS. Can't wait til the media gets a hold of this and reports on NASA bombing the Sun!

Yep they sure are going to have a field day with this more so then with the "THEY ARE BOMBING THE MOON TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BLOW IT UP STOP THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[Shadow Addict]

They'll have to go at night.

Can you imagine how much money they'd have to spend on sunscreen for that thing if it went during the day? I hear SPF 2000000000000 is pretty expensive.

 

[jinglesassy]

Meh pennies compared to the other costs.

 

[HAL9001]

if they send people who want to make :suicide:?

 

[Lucy]

Can you imagine how much money they'd have to spend on sunscreen for that thing if it went during the day? I hear SPF 2000000000000 is pretty expensive.

I have a solution for that one, in case it takes too long to get there and it turns out to be day again - it involves bean bags, a squirrel, six kilograms of rice, and a large wooden spoon. The rest will very soon be history.

 

[Shadow Addict]

I have a solution for that one, in case it takes too long to get there and it turns out to be day again - it involves bean bags, a squirrel, six kilograms of rice, and a large wooden spoon. The rest will very soon be history.

I see. That poor, poor squirrel.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Here's some more articles about this:

NASA: "NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun".

SwRI energetic particle instruments selected for Solar Probe Plus mission.

Space Daily: "Solar Probe Plus To Plunge Directly Into Sun's Atmosphere".

SPACE.com: "NASA Aims to Plunge Car-Sized Probe Into the Sun".

 

[Izack]

Wow, this IS badass.

:hail:

 

[Tex]

They must have been reading Artlav's thread.

 

[Lucy]

I see. That poor, poor squirrel.

Surprisingly, the squirrel is the only thing which survives the process. The reasons for this are many and varied, but it could be related to the possibility that squirrels, like mice, are pan-dimensional hyperintelligent beings bent on world domination. Or something.

On-topic a little more, I remember a mission to collect and analyse solar winds a few years back, but I forget the details of it.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Surprisingly, the squirrel is the only thing which survives the process. The reasons for this are many and varied, but it could be related to the possibility that squirrels, like mice, are pan-dimensional hyperintelligent beings bent on world domination. Or something.

On-topic a little more, I remember a mission to collect and analyse solar winds a few years back, but I forget the details of it.

The Genesis mission? The one with the backwards-installed accelerometer that crashed to the desert?

 

[N_Molson]

They must have been reading Artlav's thread.

Yeah, it shows that sometimes reality is more crazy than anything you can think ! :blink:

 

[Ghostrider]

The Genesis mission? The one with the backwards-installed accelerometer that crashed to the desert?

Yes. We know whose fault it is...

KHAAAAAAAAAAN! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

BBC News: "NASA hopes to send a craft into the Sun's atmosphere".

 

[caningo]

Metaphasic shield anyone?

 

[HAL9001]

There were lotas of sent to sun.
All burned away, but until that moment they sent Data.

 

[RisingFury]

There were lotas of sent to sun.
All burned away, but until that moment they sent Data.

Yea? Name them.