BRAVO NASA

[Steamboat1874 4087]

The OSIRIS-REx just tagged asteroid Bennu, gathered a sample theoretically and backed away from it and will be returning to Earth from 200 million miles away.

Fucking amazing.

Bravo !

 

[Brisketexan 105451]

2 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

The OSIRIS-REx just tagged asteroid Bennu, gathered a sample contaminated with a super-deadly previously unknown space virus and backed away from it and will be returning to Earth from 200 million miles away.

Fucking amazing.  And, we're all going to die.

Bravo !

 

FIF 2020

[Steamboat1874 4087]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

FIF 2020

Don't worry we still have a few years before it gets back.

[bolverk 29737]

 

[XYZ 2154]

Strange coincidence. Today I had coffee at Bennu.

[mchookem 16412]

well that's cool

[Your Mom 4855]

54 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Strange coincidence. Today I had coffee at Bennu.

Those weren’t coffee grounds. 

[atomheartbevo 89841]

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

[Steamboat1874 4087]

5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

[HornsOverIthaca 2335]

32 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This after one of their Martian landers was finally able to get some friction going, and started pounding its probe into Mars, just jackhammering at it.  It was the equivalent of throwing a hot dog down a hallway at first, but the probe was able to get some traction, and get some friction going, and is hoping to penetrate pretty deep, before it finishes.

Go on...

[ztejas 43549]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

FIF 2020

[Murfdogg21 4432]

@RamjetFDO full boner?

[UT_OB1 2225]

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

[Pato del Muerto 52623]

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

[miguelito 11317]

Yeah, science, bitch!

[UT_OB1 2225]

23 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

It ha been traveling with the asteroid for 2 years 

[XYZ 2154]

29 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

Because you touch yourself.

[Pato del Muerto 52623]

3 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Because you touch yourself.

They should be able to plan for that, as it’s more of a constant than a variable 

[Murfdogg21 4432]

14 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They should be able to plan for that, as it’s more of a constant than a variable 

But they had to convert it from inches to millimeters for you. 

[Pato del Muerto 52623]

20 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

But they had to convert it from inches to millimeters for you. 

It’s the same length no matter the unit of measurement.  0.00011 miles is also accurate. 

Edited October 21, 2020 by Pato del Muerto
Repeating, of course.

[freyguy 4305]

Would the absence of heat in space imply that there also be no angle of the dangle?

[Pato del Muerto 52623]

18 minutes ago, freyguy said:

Would the absence of heat in space imply that there also be no angle of the dangle?

Insomuch as it’s proportional to the heat of the meat, I’d say you are correct. 

[Horn_Spanker 524]

1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

It ha been traveling with the asteroid for 2 years 

The courtship before the penetration? 

[BradInATX 9208]

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

[Knighthawk 284]

14 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

Armageddon or Deep Impact?   Please discuss. 
 

[Trey3216 15378]

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

FIF 2020

COVID BC MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMXIX

Edited October 21, 2020 by Trey3216

[Sbbruin 21899]

1 hour ago, XYZ said:

Because you touch yourself.

@BradInATX is Jeffrey Toobin?

[RPM 26364]

[El Diablo 4232]

The word is going to get around the space community. Earthians are handsy. 

[Steamboat1874 4087]

11 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

They took a ton of pictures but they could not send all of that information back that quickly.

They were going to start the download last night of some of them.

[smuggs 9353]

11 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

[Armybrat 40931]

Here’s one with better resolution..

 

[BabaYaga 15331]

13 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10362]

13 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Is there any video from the lander?  Seems like it would be cool to see from the perspective of standing on the asteroid, but I can’t find anything. 

will be on this twitter when downloaded:

 

 

[justhookit 4191]

[FondrenRoad 4378]

15 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. The mission launched Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As planned, the spacecraft will reach Bennu in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.

 

why does nasa page say it will do this in 2018?

2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down.  NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it.

2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate. 

[Radical Larry 28664]

[UTexasFight 9551]

On 10/20/2020 at 10:25 PM, BradInATX said:

I remain unimpressed until we can send Bruce Willis up there to blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

Bennu is just one in a million or more asteroids that speed through the solar system like buckshot. It’s a spin-top of rocks and boulders—so primitive that scientists believe it formed in the first 10 million years of the solar system’s history, over 4.5 billion years ago. The asteroid is the smallest body that a NASA spacecraft has ever orbited, space agency officials said. If left undisturbed in its orbit, there is a remote chance that one day in the 22nd Century it might pose a threat of collision with Earth, the scientists said.

Yippie-Kai-yay, motherfucker

[justhookit 4191]

6 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

 

Made an attempt? It went eventually billion miles. It had one job.

[Uncle Boobs 1248]

Have they tagged Uranus yet?

 

 

 

 

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21110]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28811]

On October 20, 2020 at 11:39 PM, Knighthawk said:

Armageddon or Deep Impact?   Please discuss.

Whichever one had Téa Leoni and Leelee Sobieski wins.

End of discussion. 

[UT_OB1 2225]

On 10/21/2020 at 11:39 PM, justhookit said:

Made an attempt? It went eventually billion miles. It had one job.

It looks like that arm is duct taped on.  Glad to know the NASA engineers are just like the rest of us.  

[Wally Fairway 5590]

On 10/21/2020 at 1:03 PM, FondrenRoad said:

2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down.  NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it.

2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate. 

Michael Fucking Crichton knew this was going to happen, so he wrote a book about it

and it was published in 1969

[Bevo 13601]

We should place those Russian worms in the soil to see how they respond.

[Armybrat 40931]

8 minutes ago, Bevo said:

We should place those Russian worms in the soil to see how they respond.

Dune dude.