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Now to look for free oxygen in their atmospheres.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 02:25 AM on February 3, 2011 | IP
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They need more time to meet mission objectives, they are behind because of noise in the system (go look at my post from Nov. 9 2009).
A major black eye for Ball.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 10:57 PM on December 7, 2011 | IP
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Mission extended through 2016.
http://www.avionics-intelligence.com/articles/2012/04/nasa-extends-kepler.html
I'll admit to being lukewarm on this if the extension means delaying other programs that would provide higher quality information. On the other hand, I wouldn't think the operations budget would be too high for this, and the extension means that they get a lot more chances to find smaller planets with long (~1 year!) orbits.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 06:33 AM on April 11, 2012 | IP
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That's the problem, science missions are being gutted to pay for new manned launch vehicles.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 1:21 PM on April 16, 2012 | IP
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ISS could have been a good platform for in-orbit assembly of vehicles for transfer to other bodies in the solar system, but that requires an essentially equatorial orbit. Instead, politically to get the Russians on board to help service it, they put it in a high-inclination orbit that makes it equally reachable from both Baikonur and Kennedy, but makes it worthless for about anything but going up to sit there.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 06:25 AM on April 17, 2012 | IP
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NASA's Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
Exoplanet archive
About twenty years ago, I ran across a creationist on another forum who declared that he would abandon Christianity if it were ever proven that there was a planet around another star, because that would be unequivocal evidence that the Bible was not true.
He has since purchased a mail-order PhD, and continues to pontificate on another forum.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 10:03 PM on January 7, 2013 | IP
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Safe mode due to worn out reaction wheel.
Sticky Wheel Forces Kepler Mission Safe Mode
Reaction wheels are typically flown in sets of four, with any three being capable of doing the job. One has already failed, so we are likely getting close to end of mission.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 2:27 PM on January 23, 2013 | IP
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Quote from orion at 2:40 PM on January 23, 2013 :
Oh great! I sure hope the wheel returns to normal functionality. It would be nice to get a few more years out of Kepler.
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Well, the good news would be that Terrestrial Planet Finder will never get off the drawing boards while Kepler is operating.
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 09:10 AM on January 24, 2013 | IP
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Out of safe mode, but not out of the woods.
I've never been on a mission with reaction wheels where they weren't a major pain.
Kepler Mission Manager Update: Kepler Returns to Science Mode
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 08:23 AM on January 30, 2013 | IP
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Measuring relativistic effects with Kepler:
Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein
Cast comes off next week and the doctor may possibly allow me to bend enough to sit in a computer chair for more than 2 minutes!
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 06:55 AM on April 5, 2013 | IP
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Quote from Apoapsis at 2:27 PM on January 23, 2013 :
Safe mode due to worn out reaction wheel.
Sticky Wheel Forces Kepler Mission Safe Mode
Reaction wheels are typically flown in sets of four, with any three being capable of doing the job. One has already failed, so we are likely getting close to end of mission.
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Looks like my prediction is coming true.
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Faces Serious Health Problems
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Pogge: This is the volume of a sphere with a 62 kilometer (about 39 miles) radius, which is considerably smaller than the 2,000 mile radius of the Earth.
Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
Wisp to Lester (on Pogge): Do you admit he was wrong about the basics?
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 06:51 AM on May 2, 2013 | IP
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Quote from Briscoe Darling at 2:43 PM on May 4, 2013 :
Do you folks honestly expect to find life on one of these planets?
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Yes.
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Wikipedia: For Earth, the mean radius is 6,371.009 km(≈3,958.761 mi; ≈3,440.069 nmi).
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Posts: 1723 | Posted: 09:33 AM on May 13, 2013 | IP
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Ohhhh this is fun. Hope we actually find an earth-like planet with lifeforms on it. That would be most, most fun. Now NASA just needs to get cracking on that warp-drive of theirs.
As a Creationist, I think the possibility of ET life is completely possible, and I honestly hope we find something squirming around out there. Now, I currently don't believe there will be intelligent life, but the Bible never flatly says there isn't intelligent ET life out there. Sensible, because that sort of information is interesting, but irrelevant. If there is intelligent ET life out there, well then that would be very interesting, very interesting to see how that would work into Gods plan. Would they be humanoid? We are apparently 'Made in Gods image' but I can't imagine an infinite all-powerful all-transcendent being having a physical form necessarily, so potential alien intelligent life could have a broad span of physical appearances.
All very interesting stuff, all of which will be key in my questions when I arrive in Heaven. Most fascinating stuff indeed.
On a related side-note, what is the thought of you people on NASA's attempt to build a warp drive?
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Posts: 6 | Posted: 6:36 PM on June 4, 2013 | IP
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