Japanese Asteroid Mission
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It's all happening in space exploration at the moment. The Japanese will be launching their Hayabusa 2 mission to an asteroid this evening (our time)
http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/02/hayabusa-2-la...
http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/02/hayabusa-2-la...
Theres a video of how the lander MASCOT hops about.
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid...
Ingenious stuff.
Twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/MASCOT2018
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid...
Ingenious stuff.
Twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/MASCOT2018
The media has no interest in this genuinely exciting and positive stuff.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
Eric Mc said:
The media has no interest in this genuinely exciting and positive stuff.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
A conclusion I came to myself some years ago.I see they're going for the "Phillea landing"
Interesting approach in a micro-g environment - the lack of legs etc must have a lot of benefits in that you can keep everything covered in.
LordGrover said:
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Any recommended sources that aren't focussed on petty politics and inconsequential slebs?
PH?Any recommended sources that aren't focussed on petty politics and inconsequential slebs?
I tend to look at the sites that specialise in the things I am interested in. I haven't given up on the news completely but I am more aware than ever that what we hear or see on the TV and radio - or read in the papers - has been selected by a bunch of people I have very little respect for and who I feel are of very poor intellect.
And who are scientifically and technically pretty illiterate. Sadly, because they don't know much about such things - they make the massive assumption that nobody "out there" knows or cares about such things either.
Eric Mc said:
The media has no interest in this genuinely exciting and positive stuff.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
Spot on Eric - full of 'media studies' people who, even though communication is their business, struggle to put a grammatically correct sentence together and wouldn't know the difference between phase and faze It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
In the past budding journalists studied the subject matter, not the medium they were using to deliver information about it, so usually got it right.Eric Mc said:
The media has no interest in this genuinely exciting and positive stuff.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
^ 100% agree with this :-) ^ It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
Just bumping this thread as it's doing a slingshot of Earth tomorrow so expect some more Earth pictures from far away in the next few days...
Also, the Japanese space agency have followed NASA and ESA's example of having the mission's twitter account write in the first person
Which I think's a nice touch, plus obviously it takes up less room when you only have 140 characters to play with!
You'll have to go onto Twitter so see the full 'conversation'.
Also, the Japanese space agency have followed NASA and ESA's example of having the mission's twitter account write in the first person
Which I think's a nice touch, plus obviously it takes up less room when you only have 140 characters to play with!
You'll have to go onto Twitter so see the full 'conversation'.
kellys hero said:
Eric Mc said:
The media has no interest in this genuinely exciting and positive stuff.
It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
^ 100% agree with this :-) ^ It is stuffed full of petty and inconsequential media grads who love gossip, title tattle and girly fights and have no interest in REAL events - unless those events are a disaster of some sort.
I am learning to ignore modern broadcast media and find out things for myself using the internet.
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