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- ApokalypseNow, on 09/29/2008, -2/+35D'oh! After actually reading the article, it appears that a destructive re-entry was what was supposed to happen. I guess I'm too used to NASA's recent failures and projected that onto the ESA. Digg me down.
- blacktriangle, on 09/30/2008, -0/+21Watch the re-entry in its entirety. No, it's not a Rick Roll...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2OiAk1l2vs - johnnick, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1750 lashes with a wet noodle for commenting before reading the article, but you get credit for correcting yourself. :-)
- mickstephenson, on 09/30/2008, -0/+15Reading the comments on msnbc is actually an awful experience, I cant believe how stupid people are. "Fire it at the sun?" what a bunch of idiots, and billions of dollars? Obviously people don't understand the concept of the various stages used in rocketry.
It makes you feel like digg is positively brimming the with the Internet's brightest. - Toxigen, on 09/30/2008, -1/+10RTFA
- rmfootball69, on 09/30/2008, -2/+10Whats that, have manned shuttles blow up rather than noone?
- Aroundtheworls, on 09/30/2008, -1/+8I like the suggestion that the ESA should have attached a parachute and when the unit came down to Earth it could be used as housing for the homeless.
Good one- they shoulda done that. - Phalanxia, on 09/30/2008, -1/+6@Apokalypsenow
I dugg your second comment, and duggdown your first one, but I accidentally reported you for being offensive ^_^` I swear it was just an accident and that if there was any way to take it back I would. Sorry!
Good article btw. - Earendil1, on 09/30/2008, -4/+8ESA projects have the nicest names. Galileo, Jule Verne, next Don Quijote. :-)
- edd17, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4Just remember, these people have just as much say in how the government is run as you do.
- CharlesSaint, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Please disregard this fool. He does not represent the sentiments of America.
- Zique, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4I don't think inability to read counts as "better".
- SeaICIubber, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3We're in the pipe, five by five.
- schnikies79, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3The Internet's brightest is like the smartest kid with down syndrome.
- p_o_b, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3I live in the same town as the "maybe billions" idiot. /facepalm
- Rudegar, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3
"we're in for some chop" - handheldchimp, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Was it supposed to burn up?
- Phalanxia, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3The problem is as to whether most Americans think like him or not. Do they?
- securitymonkey, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2"That's one cargo ship..."
*puts on sunglasses*
"That won't be carrying anything anymore."
YYYYYEEEEAAAHHHHH
*guitar riff*
/horatio is the man - BellaVitaGirl, on 09/30/2008, -2/+4"Although experts still have to track all the bits of debris, it looks as if Jules Verne's plunge through the atmosphere provided a great light show, but no big impact. There were far more damaging plunges elsewhere on the planet today. [ MSNBC links to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/ ]"
Wow. Was NOT expecting that sarcasm from MSNBC! Lol - zynaps, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2No, those are only for deep space missions where there is little sunlight available and spacecraft lifespans are measured in years/decades. This was a low earth orbit mission to the IIS. In the end the Jules Verne ATV was nothing more than a "simple" metal container with solar panels.
- hybridcreation, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Burning it up in the atmosphere is a viable solution. I'm just amazed that anything makes it through at all.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Believe me, it's hard being an intelligent American. So many idiots trying to drag us down.
- MacParrot, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2How much junk is in a slowly decaying orbit? Eventually someone is going to have to go up there and either figure out how to shoot it into deep space or force it to re-enter over the South Pacific. The article states that some of the fuel that was aboard the ESA module was used to avoid some old Russian space junk, but the US certainly has more than their fair share of crap floating around as well. All it would take would be one small hit on the ISS (maybe even something too small to see) to doom some if not all of the personnel up there.
- mickstephenson, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2@Phalanxia, the fact that the majority of the US voted for bush twice kind of leans towards a yes.
If McCain wins this time around I think we can say a resounding yes.
(at least if that happens we can feel better for assuming that they do anyway) - mickstephenson, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2That's what happens when you come from a town founded on the belief that people should be able to marry their cousins.
- SeaICIubber, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Even better quality and improved by being in German.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZ4_N-5544
(Again not a Rick Roll) - erkokite, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2It was supposed to burn up. RTFA.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2It's a problem that's being worked on. Future missions are designed to avoid making space junk and most satellites have a way to de-orbit themselves. But I guarantee there won't be any real effort to take care of anything that's already up there until something bad happens.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3I'm trying to figure out if you're serious or not. It'd cost hundreds of millions to design and test the parachute system, not to mention getting it from it's landing site to it's new location.
- rocor, on 09/30/2008, -0/+21. Go collect space-junk.
2. Bring it back to Earth.
3. Sell as high priced space souvenirs.
4. Profit!!! - TheAuditor, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2I have a feeling I know that quote - where from though?
- erkokite, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Yes. It was designed to be disposable- not to be reused.
- Crushyerbones, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Starcraft dropship and the Aliens film dropship pilot I think.
- inactive, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1I have been Rick Rolled. It's a trap!
- tconnect80, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2Cloverfield 2 advertising
- mickstephenson, on 09/30/2008, -2/+3I'd love to see his supposed list of things America does better than Europe.
- TheAuditor, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1This is all the stuff in low Earth orbit:
http://electronrun.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/spa ... - PhoenixAvatar2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1The ATV program is supposed to burn up in the atmosphere after it's done. So no, they didn't.
Very cool footage, but I want to kick whoever was holding that camera. - Rudegar, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1right on both accounts
- knowmad23, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1"It makes you feel like digg is positively brimming the with the Internet's brightest." Whoa, that's scary. And to edd17- even scarier yet! Some of these people are advisors to government agencies, and their best ideas are data mined directly from MSNBC! And they use tax $$ to do it!
- britoca, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1"mommy, explain why there is spaceship fuel in our drinking water again please"
- blacktriangle, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Why didnt the monkey flying it just deploy the brakes?
- marphtwo, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0"in case of a water landing, you may be used as a flotation device"
- marphtwo, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0Man I miss that game
- marphtwo, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0Seems a bit contradictory to me
"mission control in Toulouse, France, directed the 17-ton craft into its final plunge" and "Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicles"
or
"Jules Verne has now successfully completed its mission" and "ATV cargo ship breaks up in a spectacular display
during re-entry" - vat0r, on 09/30/2008, -2/+2So NASA is responsible for you not reading the headline? Interesting....
- Tarnum, on 09/30/2008, -3/+2Beautiful.
I hope they did not use isotope power source? - uruururr, on 09/30/2008, -3/+2ohhh shut up.
- ApokalypseNow, on 09/29/2008, -25/+5First the Beagle 2, now this? It seems that the ESA is having a pretty bad streak here...
More importantly, I wonder if this is a failure of the whole craft series, as this very ship has launched and auto-docked with the ISS previously. With the shuttle fleet to retire in 2010, these things are supposed to be the next wave.
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