Jupiter....

[eddyace595]

Did anyone happen to watch the BBC2 programme on Jupiter and the Juno space probe
that is currently orbiting the thing?? It was on a week or two ago.
Absolutely gob smacking stuff.This huge super giant
planet that dominates our system..is slowly and surely having its secrets uncovered by Juno.
Photographs,x rays infra ,red gravity readings..you name it this probe is doing it.
Turns out that the gas giant isnt actually a huge ball of misty gas as you would imagine it,but has a gas
layer a 1000 or so kms thick...decending through it the pressure becomes unimaginable..they think that there is then a huge ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen and then it looks likely that the planet has a core ..They can only make metallic hydrogen on earth by firing a hundred odd lazers at a tiny sample of hydrogen and then it
only lasts a fraction of a second..
The vast size of the thing and its electomagnetic and gravitic influence on everything else..The programme was even dumbed so that fools like me could understand...I even said WOW out loud when the credits started to roll. Obviously no one heard because no one else in my house was remotely interested in watching it..
Best hours worth of TV that I have watched in ages..
Should still be on I player..give it whirl chaps you might enjoy it...

 

[andyBeaker]

Brilliant programme.

I love the technology and vision that goes into space exploration.

Just as well PowLo isn't in charge - everyone would be told it is impossible and will never happen.

 

[Jaws]

If we could only crack the light barrier, we could really get out there
I think we have, albeit pretty basic, the knowledge to go visiting

 

[andyBeaker]

If we could only crack the light barrier, we could really get out there
I think we have, albeit pretty basic, the knowledge to go visiting

NASA are working toward a man on mars in 2040. Based on what they think they can achieve in that time frame they predict a year of travel each way.

PowLo has told them it isn't possible. Obviously.

 

[derek kelly]

Not even got to the moon yet.

 

[DLN1965]

I’m not into this conspiracy lark

But it’s strange how in 69 we managed to put a man on the moon, ahead of the Russians !

And the technology used has been ‘lost’ over time !
See video at 5.57

Surely with today’s advances .... it would be so much easier ??

 

[Jaws]

I’m not into this conspiracy lark

But it’s strange how in 69 we managed to put a man on the moon, ahead of the Russians !

And the technology used has been ‘lost’ over time !
See video at 5.57

Surely with today’s advances .... it would be so much easier ??

You are aware that 12 people have been on the moon, not just two.....

 

[derek kelly]

You are aware that 12 people have been on the moon, not just two.....

Prove it

 

[Jaws]

Prove it

Prove otherwise

 

[Cougar377]

Prove otherwise

Ooooh. A Philosophy question.
To quote Descartes.....

I think, therefore I am.
I drink, therefore I am.....a spaceman on the moon.

 

[DLN1965]

You are aware that 12 people have been on the moon, not just two.....

Never said how many .... (or ‘allegedly’ how many)

 

[Jaws]

Never said how many .... (or ‘allegedly’ how many)

To reply to the question you posed
Reasons are many why moon landings are not done now, but I think the main two will be 'been there done that' and got all the knowledge we can

The cost is no longer worth the effort to just repeat what has been done before

 

[Cougar377]

To reply to the question you posed
Reasons are many why moon landings are not done now, but I think the main two will be 'been there done that' and got all the knowledge we can

The cost is no longer worth the effort to just repeat what has been done before

Make a great place to site a prison.

 

[derek kelly]

Man utd are moving their ground there, more atmosphere than old trafford

 

[derek kelly]

Prove otherwise

Don’t have to.

 

[Jaws]

Don’t have to.

touche

 

[andyBeaker]

Man utd are moving their ground there, more atmosphere than old trafford

NASA are using the inside of Leeds trophy cabinet to test the new Mars Rover as the dust is very similar to the surface of Mars.

 

[derek kelly]

No dust, the cabinet is now a fish tank.

 

[Minkey]

I was thinking of building my own space craft it can't be that difficult it's not rocket science

 

[Centaur]

Biggest problem with rocket science is making it go fizz and not bang.