On 15/09/2017 19:57, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.09.2017 um 20:25 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 15/09/2017 13:00, clipka wrote:
>>> The Cassini space probe is officially no more.
>>>
>>
>> Didn't it do well?
> 
> I guess it did. Just ran out of gas, with no spare canister on board and
> miles from the next gas station. 

Em! Who forgot got to buy a fuel scoop, then?

> So rather than risk it ending up
> crashing into a potentially-inhabited moon with 40 kg of Pu238 and who
> knows how many colonies of earth microbes on board, 

I hope not with all the trouble they go to to keep it sterile.


> they decided to let
> it burn up in Saturn's atmosphere.
> 

That's the way to do it! ;-)

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Regards
     Stephen

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