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Omaha Steve

(99,653 posts) Sun Aug 10, 2014, 08:58 PM Aug 2014

Koterba toon: Drones

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Koterba toon: Drones (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 2014 OP

Gotta love those kind of drones. longship Aug 2014 #1

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Gotta love those kind of drones.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Aug 10, 2014, 11:53 PM

Aug 2014

And especially the kind orbiting Saturn, Cassini-Huygens. Or the one on the surface of Mars, Mars Science Laboratory (AKA Curiosity). Or the one headed to Pluto and beyond, New Horizons. Or indeed this months star, the above mentioned Rosetta from the European Space Agency, recently had a rendevous with Comet 67P after a decade journey.

These drones work fucking well.

Then there's Voyager 1 which is still active and transmitting from well beyond the planets into the heliopause, launched in 1977 and still going.

Who says drones are bad?

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