Ontopic Mission to Uranus

Mr. Asa said:
Fairly sure they did predict it would happen, but that little guy went 60 times past his original mission time. Even a best case was probably a year.

I would hope that with the next models they design panels that could rotate in such a way that dust wouldn't accumulate, but some will still do so from the static generated by the dust storms.

Even that idea has problems though.
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Except they didn't, hence the 90 day lifetime. Granted it was probably in there somewhere as a possibility.
 
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They've known about planetside dust storms since we got there with Mariner 9, I'm not sure why you think they didn't know or plan for that? Or are you talking about something else?
 
Mr. Asa said:
They've known about planetside dust storms since we got there with Mariner 9, I'm not sure why you think they didn't know or plan for that? Or are you talking about something else?
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They did plan for the dust dummy, hence the 90 day mission. I'm shocked that they didn't think it would go longer because the dust would blow off. I'm not sure how else to say it. Are we on the same page yet?
 
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Mr. Asa said:
They've known about planetside dust storms since we got there with Mariner 9, I'm not sure why you think they didn't know or plan for that? Or are you talking about something else?
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You mentioned the static from the dust storms. My comment was on point. See the guy below - he seems to get it. -gravy
fly said:
They did plan for the dust dummy, hence the 90 day mission. I'm shocked that they didn't think it would go longer because the dust would blow off. I'm not sure how else to say it. Are we on the same page yet?
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Mr. Asa said:
Nope. Not on the same page. Are you complaining that it went past the 90 day mission?
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Me no. But the more in-depth articles I have read seem to think the circuits are kind of fucked the longer they are cold. And they expected the plutonium chips on the boards(for heat) to be depleted badly after a few years at best. My guess is the little guy's panels are clean enough but he ain't coming to for a variety of unknown reasons.
 
Jehannum said:
There's a fallacy that putting more brains on the same problem will solve it faster.

Yet, you can't get 9 women pregnant and make a baby in one month.
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No, but with more brains there's more angles to view the problem. And if history has shown us anything, more people means more accidents that change the course of humanity.
 
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fly said:
No, but with more brains there's more angles to view the problem. And if history has shown us anything, more people means more accidents that change the course of humanity.
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True, to an extent.

I just don't think that we're suffering from a lack of parallelism in cancer research at the moment.
 
Maureen said:
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