NASA Launching Spacecraft Into the Sun

[burrellbuzzman]

[citation][nom]cadder[/nom]The sun will destroy the probe before it can send back meaningful data, that is unless they send it at night.[/citation]

I chuckled, and then read some comments after... I don't cadder was serious

 

[burrellbuzzman]

I don't think cadder was serious**

 

[thechief73]

This stuff is really quite interesting, I hope they get lots of data for scientist to oodle over and learn more about the life giving star because the implacations of what they learn could be vast.

After reading this I couldnt belive that something similar to this hasn't been tried before they've been to Mercury have they not? And why so long to launch, I understand R&D n such but thats a good chunk of time.

Godspeed "unamed spacecraft"

 

[falchard]

That was to see if the Sun was actually hot. This is to see how hot the Sun is.

 

[dimar]

Would be way cooler if they could drop it into the sun's atmosphere, with HD stereo camera I'd pay twice the IMAX ticket to see that.

 

[chuchuchui]

Ehhhh...just slap some tantalum-hafnium-carbide on the thing and call it a day.

 

[matt87_50]

Fahrenheit... do people still use that?

 

[bsbsbsbs]

hahahaa Cadder made me pmsl

 

[eklipz330]

wow, how will they get it into the sun?

no, i didn't read the article yet.

 

[proxy711]

Lets spend billions of dollars to confirm the sun is hot and gives off radiation.

MMMmmmm tax payer money.

 

[ms1191]

Cadder...hilarious lol.

Can't believe people responded seriously...

 

[nebun]

hell no...leave the sun alone...it will bite us in the arse in the long run...this is such a waster of money and resources

 

[greenspoon]

Isn't it sad that multi-million does not sound like that much money anymore? Thanks Washington!

 

[kingnoobe]

How is it gonna bite us in the ass. We could learn something that could advance us through a mistake (like normal I might add). Nasa one of the few projects that get funded I agree with. I mean really how long do you think this world is gonna hold us with us populating like we do.

Space not only might become the next place, but it has to become the next place or the human race is doomed.

 

[lordfakie]

its gonna be maid of some kind of tungsten alloy. It can resist much more than 4000F degrees.

 

[fuzzietech]

But if its sent at night, how can they see where they are going?

 

[invlem]

[citation][nom]kcorp2003[/nom]imagine if that spacecraft crash into the sun and then started a chain reaction to explode the sun? OH NO!! i hope that won't be the case. besides do we really have have a metal that won't melt at those extreme temperatures at close to the sun atmosphere? wow. Looks like "The Core" movie is coming to reality[/citation]

The current shuttles nasa uses are designed to withstand re-entry temperatures of 3000 F, this type of stuff is made out of special high temperature ceramics.

If you're interested look up nasa's thermal protection system.

 

[digitalrazoe]

So does that mean the theme song for the launch is "Disco Inferno" ?

 

[matt87_50]

"NASA Launching Spacecraft Into the Sun"

that headline makes the it sound a lot more pointless than what the actual mission is.

 

[back_by_demand]

How about parking a few solar panels in orbit round the Sun, then having a reeeeeealy long cable stretching back to Earth
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