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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 02:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Sun is really hot! It took 60 years to develop the tech for an efficient heat shield to send a spacecraft into the Sun's corona. 'On a drizzly day in May at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, Congdon crouches next to a foil-wrapped test copy of her team's product: a carbon-foam heat shield, a little wider and a lot thinner than a king size mattress. Another copy sits nearby, a flight-ready spare sealed in a metal drum stamped with an unintentionally ironic warning: "Do not expose to direct sunlight." The real one has headed south to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where on or soon after 11 August, it will blast off, fastened to the business end of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Six weeks later, the probe will reach Venus. That planet's gravity will tip the probe toward the heart of the solar system. Six weeks after that, Parker will plunge through the sun's corona, a tenuous atmosphere of hot charged particles, or plasma, on the first of two dozen flybys between now and 2024. [link to www.sciencemag.org] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 02:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Plans to send a probe into the Sun’s corona date back to 1958 and the very start of NASA. At the space agency’s inception, a special committee listed 14 different missions that NASA should pursue, including visiting all the planets of the Solar System. All 14 missions have been accomplished in some form apart from one: a probe to visit near the Sun. [link to www.theverge.com (secure)] The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 02:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Last Edited by Helios Maximus on 08/11/2018 02:32 AM The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 02:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 02:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 03:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker-Who???? "This is the first time NASA has named a spacecraft for a living individual," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "It's a testament to the importance of his body of work, founding a new field of science that also inspired my own research and many important science questions NASA continues to study and further understand every day. I'm very excited to be personally involved honoring a great man and his unprecedented legacy." "The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before," said Parker. "It's very exciting that we'll finally get a look. One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what's going on in the solar wind. I'm sure that there will be some surprises. There always are." In the 1950s, Parker proposed a number of concepts about how stars - including our sun - give off energy. He called this cascade of energy the solar wind, and he described an entire complex system of plasmas, magnetic fields and energetic particles that make up this phenomenon. [link to www.spacedaily.com] The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 03:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LIVE NASA-TV: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 04:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu] Solar Probe Instruments: [link to svs.gsfc.nasa.gov (secure)] The Parker Solar Probe could revolutionize our understanding of the sun! The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 04:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finley, you moved to Canada? I'm getting sleepy myself...... one more beer........ The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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(OP) User ID: 74772411 United States 08/11/2018 04:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Launch scrubbed! Goodnight & Good Morning, folks. Better luck next time, eh.... The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. ~ Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801 It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1779 |
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