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Congratulations to the European Space Agency for a successful proble landing on Saturn's moon of Titan. The probe was carried on the Cassini spacecraft and parachuted to the surface after a seven and a half year journey. NASA (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm) has some pretty slick pictures at JPL.

Congratulations to the European Space Agency for a successful proble landing on Saturn's moon of Titan. The probe was carried on the Cassini spacecraft and parachuted to the surface after a seven and a half year journey. NASA (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm) has some pretty slick pictures at JPL.

*cheers*

This is the first picture of Titans surface, taken at 16km up. Th black bit is an ocean.

http://img89.exs.cx/img89/5518/titan16dg.jpg

This is the first picture of Titans surface, taken at 16km up. Th black bit is an ocean.

http://img89.exs.cx/img89/5518/titan16dg.jpg
i can see my backyard :D

Ahhh... so there is both solid and liquid there... cool. Kinda strange to think that that ocean is made of basically petrol.

Yahoooooooooo! Europeans do it better!!! Americans don't even do it!

Yahoooooooooo! Europeans do it better!!! Americans don't even do it!

Actually, its a joint program between the European Space Agency, NASA (The US Space Agency), and the Italian Space Agency

Excellent! Just proves NASA HAS been dragging it's heels.

Actually, its a joint program between the European Space Agency, NASA (The US Space Agency), and the Italian Space Agency
Italian? European? uhm....

Excellent! Just proves NASA HAS been dragging it's heels.
It proves NASA is focusing on more practical things than landing on Jupiter's moons.

Edit : If NASA wasn't working on this project, which apparently they are. :(

No, it proves nothing. NASA is doing it's job. In any case, this is a good thing.

Italian? European? uhm....
yup

artical (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=530)

"The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperation between NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian space agency."

Yahoooooooooo! Europeans do it better!!! Americans don't even do it!

Uh, have you heard about the Cassini part of this mission?

Yahoooooooooo! Europeans do it better!!! Americans don't even do it!
Wait a minute! The probe rode to Saturn on Cassini. That's an American craft.

I'm sorry everyone. This US vs. Europe wasn't what I intended. I was just thrilled to see more pictures from our solar system.

yup

artical (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=530)
I didn't know that :confused: strange.

Ahhh... so there is both solid and liquid there... cool. Kinda strange to think that that ocean is made of basically petrol.
Better not let Bush here this.

[good-natured humorous attacks]

Look at the Europeans! They're amateurs in messing up like the Americans! I mean, really. All that they've really done wrong is discovered that their engineering specifications for Hugyens' battery were wrong. (The battery was supposed to last for three minutes. It lasted for over two hours.) That's nothing next to some of NASA's cock-ups! How much anti-talent (not to be confused with ineptitude, which is merely the lack of talent) does it take to have your squillion-dollar Mars probe miss the Red Planet by a great distance because one set of engineers was using feet and another set was using meters? Far more than that.

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Edit: Do not under any circumstances take the above message seriously. I saw a joke and I took it. No offense intended at all.

WTF, I walked in here, a happy American for our success as a human race and happy for Europe that they achieved such a goal that I've been looking forward to completion for 7 years. What do I find? American-bashers.


*walks away*

are all the pics in black and white?


can we have more pics?

i want more pics of titan's surface and am lazy... come on people.

are all the pics in black and white?


can we have more pics?

i want more pics of titan's surface and am lazy... come on people.

I think the pics are in black and white because they are using radar to take the images since there is very little light out there to take regular photographs.

Liquid areas will appear black since they absorb radio waves like a bitch and don't bounce back.

[good-natured humorous attacks]

Look at the Europeans! They're amateurs in messing up like the Americans! I mean, really. All that they've really done wrong is discovered that their engineering specifications for Hugyens' battery were wrong. (The battery was supposed to last for three minutes. It lasted for over two hours.) That's nothing next to some of NASA's cock-ups! How much anti-talent (not to be confused with ineptitude, which is merely the lack of talent) does it take to have your squillion-dollar Mars probe miss the Red Planet by a great distance because one set of engineers was using feet and another set was using meters? Far more than that.

[/good-natured humorous attacks]

Edit: Do not under any circumstances take the above message seriously. I saw a joke and I took it. No offense intended at all.

Well my father worked out at KSC as well as my father in law, and may I just say the moment you Euros come close to our prowess in Space will probably be a century after the US ceases to exist.

What have you guys got, a puny little satellite pusher rocket? Gosh all that effort and you just managed parody with the Japanese. We just had a private inventor that took the X prize and eclipsed all Euro manned flight programs to date.

And your Scientists had the nerve to gloat about "European Scientific Accomplishment". If we hadn't placed the package for you, there is no way you could've gotten it there in the first place. Any college Engineering Department, (in the US) can build a satellite or planetary probe, it's getting it there that's the challenge.

Well congrats on it working now that we dropped it off for you.

That was so ultra cool. Keep it up. I almost posted something about what the lander has been discovering this far. Luckily I read the thread through. And well done Modinel; good-natured humorous attacks go well in NS.

This isn't a time to say "Who did more than who", all sides contributed ALOT(The Europeans built the probe, we got it there.) So instead of saying "Yay NASA!" or "Yay ESA!" or "Yay ASI!", Im gonna go..

YAY HUMANS!

Because when humanity's getting it's arse kicked by an Alien Empire, we are all gonna forget our differencies and sh*t our pants as brothers instead of enemies.

This isn't a time to say "Who did more than who", all sides contributed ALOT(The Europeans built the probe, we got it there.) So instead of saying "Yay NASA!" or "Yay ESA!" or "Yay ASI!", Im gonna go..

YAY HUMANS!

Because when humanity's getting it's arse kicked by an Alien Empire, we are all gonna forget our differencies and sh*t our pants as brothers instead of enemies.
Naah, I think we'll betray each other to the aliens and die exquisitely painful deaths.
In the meanwhile, I'll join you in saying:

YAY HUMANS!