The press release mentions "an object" they were looking for for 50 years. Why would that in any way have anything to do with the Constellation program?
-CaptainOogy
NASA's making a big announcment on the 14th May 2008
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The press release mentions "an object" they were looking for for 50 years. Why would that in any way have anything to do with the Constellation program?
-CaptainOogy
Because it is the Saturn V rocket plans they thought they lost.
I just know I'm supposed to support a Constellation telecon at the same time on the same day and the PAO office doesn't "double book".
So, perhaps the email I have is a smoke screen (which is stupid because why would I get false information but the release has the legit) or the release is based off old info, or my email is (my email is from Friday, so I doubt it).
Who knows?
So, perhaps the email I have is a smoke screen (which is stupid because why would I get false information but the release has the legit) or the release is based off old info, or my email is (my email is from Friday, so I doubt it).
Who knows?
I, for one, am pretty excited about what this 'object in our galaxy astronomers have been searching for for 50 years' is. I still don't really know what Project Constellation would have to do with it. The only connection I could see would be that NASA has found an asteroid or dwarf planet or something in our solar system, and plan to send humans to it. That seems incredibly unlikely though. 
I, for one, am pretty excited about what this 'object in our galaxy astronomers have been searching for for 50 years' is. I still don't really know what Project Constellation would have to do with it. The only connection I could see would be that NASA has found an asteroid or dwarf planet or something in our solar system, and plan to send humans to it. That seems incredibly unlikely though.
What if they found "counter earth" and they wanna send someone to it???
Well, Chandra sees X-rays, and telescopes on Earth's surface assuredly do not. So we need something that glows with X-rays and either visual light or radio. Those gamma bursts would be a nice candidate (imagine they found they really happened within Milky Way!), but Chandra is a directional instrument and would be extremely unlikely to spot a burst's associated X-rays, if any - and gamma fireworks aren't 50-yr-old news anyway.
Black holes verified by something other than their X-ray emissions would be nice, of course. But I can't see what sort of new verification these instruments could offer. Still, 50 years is roughly how long black holes have been speculated to exist as astronomical objects worth a telescope hunt, as opposed to theoretical constructs worth some Nobel-winning mathematical scribbles.
Timo Saloniemi
Black holes verified by something other than their X-ray emissions would be nice, of course. But I can't see what sort of new verification these instruments could offer. Still, 50 years is roughly how long black holes have been speculated to exist as astronomical objects worth a telescope hunt, as opposed to theoretical constructs worth some Nobel-winning mathematical scribbles.
Timo Saloniemi
Woah, so not only are we going to announce the discover of a black hole, but we're going to land men on it!
They are teaming up with the Department of corrections on that.
Maybe it's the Nexus Ribbon...as it rounds the remnants of the moon Praxis.
Unfortunately, you may be (and quite likely are) right. NASA has decent marketing skills I'll give them that.
Fifty years?
It's Richard Nixon's conscience.
Or a black hole.
They're still trying to pin it down.
It's Richard Nixon's conscience.
Or a black hole.
They're still trying to pin it down.
Is the announcement going to be by someone named Jackson Roykirk?
Nahh..it's probably the old manned Soviet spacecraft that went up before Yuri A. Gagarin ..or an Alien Death Fleet..take your choice...
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/grachev.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/grachev.htm