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j********o@***.com
04/07/1997 00:00:000 UTC
Yow! Just saw Docco on the channel 7 news! They were doing a report on

the Pathfinder probe and he was the first of the two people at the museum

they talked to ("We spoke to astronomer Kevin Conod..."): he got several

seconds of air time speaking, although they had the wrong kyron (or

whatever it is). Neat! He looked like a grown up, too. Who says only

pederastic forumites can make the big time! (By the way, that Lucy Yang's

kinda cute, ain't she?)

While I'm on the topic, there was a NASA scientist talking about

Pathfinder's novel airbag landing system last night (I am writing this the

night before the landing) and saying that there is only a 50% chance of a

successful landing, but that it's experimental science, so that's to be

expected and OK! Yeah, they're just a couple of guys working in their

basements in their spare time, what can you expect?

Gorno

Earth First! (We'll mine the other planets later.)

s******j@**.com
04/07/1997 00:00:000 UTC
On 4 Jul 1997 07:01:08 GMT, JohnGorno wrote:

>While I'm on the topic, there was a NASA scientist talking about

>Pathfinder's novel airbag landing system last night (I am writing this the

>night before the landing) and saying that there is only a 50% chance of a

>successful landing, but that it's experimental science, so that's to be

>expected and OK! Yeah, they're just a couple of guys working in their

>basements in their spare time, what can you expect?

Right. Aerobreaking and airbags are really very experimental. I guess they

thought they'd turn it into working test. Risk is what will happen if it

pongos. They hyped it too much.

FUN FACTS: The company that made the airbags has a web page, in which the

tests of the system are very nice shewn. The company worked on the Moon Suits

way back when, and THE SAME LITTLE OLD LADY WHO SEWED AND DOPED THE

APOLLO EVA SUITS SEWED AND DOPED THE PATHFINDER AIRBAGS. "For god's sake,

let me retire and work on macrame for a change. All this glue is getting

me dizzy, and you know how hard it is pushing a needle through five-ply

airtight canvas when you've got arthritis. NyaaaaHHH!"

--Stefan

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