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Posted by Zenster 2004-09-11 3:09:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let me get this straight - they were going to have to do a helicopter pickup worthy of "Fear Factor" because a parachute impact would have destroyed the material, and now it's survived pancaking in at terminal velocity? Talk about overdesign!

Posted by VAMark 2004-09-11 10:53:25 AM|| 2004-09-11 10:53:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Talk about overdesign!

I'd wager it's this kind of "overdesign" that landed Americans on the moon so many times. The skyhook proceedure was necessary to provide a maximum guarantee of little or no terrestrial contamination of the samples and not (so much) to cushion the touchdown.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-11 11:21:06 AM|| 2004-09-11 11:21:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 We now have a piece of the sun. I am truly humbled.

Posted by DLS 2004-09-11 3:21:06 PM|| 2004-09-11 3:21:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 DLS, any element with an atomic number larger than 2 (helium) and less than 26 (iron) was most likely synthesized inside a star. Those above #26 require super novae shock waves to coalesce. We are all made from star dust. No matter how much I ponder this concept, it never fails to astound me utterly. We are all made out of stars.

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

- ALBERT EINSTEIN -

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-11 4:20:41 PM|| 2004-09-11 4:20:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "We are all made out of stars"

Moby

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-11 4:41:43 PM|| 2004-09-11 4:41:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Kirk, give me the secret of Genesis."

It's coming right now, Khan.

Posted by Baltic Blog 2004-09-11 7:20:49 PM|| [http://balticblog.blogspot.com] 2004-09-11 7:20:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Every man and every woman is a star"

Posted by Crowley 2004-09-11 7:31:47 PM|| 2004-09-11 7:31:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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