Cassini's End - Socoder

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Cassini's End
Fri, 15 Sep 2017, 04:41
therevillsgames	Goodbye Cassini...
Fri, 15 Sep 2017, 04:41
GfK	Quite sad really. A gnat's cock under seven years just to get there, 13 years of poking about and taking pictures the like of which was unthinkable just 50 years ago, and now (at 11:40BST) it's got barely an hour of it's life left before we send it into oblivion.
Fri, 15 Sep 2017, 04:47
Jayenkai	That's not sad. It's given us oodles of data and pictures and stuff. That's a fantastic life for a machine created for doing just that. It'll have a great afterlife in Silicon Heaven. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Fri, 15 Sep 2017, 04:51
GfK	No, it really is. It's done a sterling job but there's still shit-tons more we could learn. On the other hand, better to deliberately destroy it while they can, rather than have it floating around the universe as an uncontrolled piece of space junk. And hopefully it'll get some good Saturny info on the way down.
Mon, 18 Sep 2017, 13:51
GfK	There's a Horizon special about this on BBC2 in 10 mins (and I would assume iPlayer later)