is it me or...
that arm at the end of one of the solar panels looks like a hard drive read write head?
NASA's Juno spacecraft blasted off this afternoon from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at the beginning of its five-year journey to Jupiter. The launch of Juno this afternoon. Pic: NASA TV The 4-ton Juno rose heavenwards at 16:25 GMT atop a bloody big United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket, boasting a quintet of solid …
The 4-ton Juno rose heavenwards at 16:25 GMT atop a bloody big United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket, boasting a quintet of solid booster strap-ons. Despite this extra lifting grunt,...
Thanks Lester. Another couple of cracked ribs....;-)
Minuteman, a freaking ICBM, with multiple thermo nuclear warheads is said to be more environmentally friendly than previous versions.
I can't find it on Wikipedia, perhaps I saw it somewhere else.
Environmentalist guys should get this absurd levels of "environmentally correct" BS they forced everyone into.
Btw, I really don't really care how much harm (!) a single Saturn does. What matters is, how much harm that idiot causes when buying a car instead of using city bus where he travels everyday. That is the real subject nobody touches.
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"NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will carry the 1.5-inch likeness of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno to Jupiter when the spacecraft launches this Friday, Aug. 5. The inclusion of the three mini-statues, or figurines, is part of a joint outreach and educational program developed as part of the partnership between NASA and the LEGO Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics."