Star trek stuff.

[redneck joe]

Unfortunately I will not be around to see it. But, I a fan, Veger...

Voyager 1 team accomplishes tricky thruster swap

Engineers working on NASA's Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft's thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands, send engineering data, and provide the unique science data it is gathering.

phys.org

 

[Lpgc]

An interesting read

 

[Scott Danforth]

looks close enough.

 

[redneck joe]

^^ my fav of the Shatner era

 

[BWR1953]

"...The thrusters are fueled by liquid hydrazine, which is turned into gases and released in tens-of-milliseconds-long puffs..."

We used to call those "mouse farts."
The combustion chamber is lined with a catalyst, which sets off the hydrazine when it's released into the chamber, causing the thrust. I'm glad that they got it to work. Troubleshooting from 15 billion miles away is pretty tough.

I was lucky enough to be working at JPL when Voyager 2 flew by Uranus. We not only got to see it go by, we were also gifted photos from the event. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Scott Danforth]

^^ my fav of the Shatner era

you know they manually went thru every frame and touched up his back side because he thought his butt looked big.

 

[Lpgc]

you know they manually went thru every frame and touched up his back side because he thought his butt looked big.

Been meaning to ask, I can 'like' or 'reply' but where's the 'laugh' button?

 

[alldodge]

Have watched everything Si-Fi since being a kid. Always got me thinking of possibilities

Old Star Trek episode where the planet was at war for a thousand years but there were no actual fighting. Computer's were used who lived and who died after each battle. Each side used a desintagrator (spelling) to kill those who came up on the list from each side

Kirk destroyed the Computer and they were worried that there would be actual fighting and blood shed. That was the point and that is one of two shows I watched as a kid that shaped my life today. The other show was Mash 4077

 

[jlh3rd]

just got back from this....

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Remember when Shatner was on SNL and addressed the Startrek convention? He was right.

 

[jlh3rd]

well damn, guess I won't show you my tribble....

 

[Scott Danforth]

The other show was Mash 4077

you can still hear the chopper blades cant you.....

 

[southkogs]

Remember when Shatner was on SNL and addressed the Startrek convention? He was right.

^ ^ ^ Why I love to watch Galaxy Quest.

But I still like quite a bit of the Star Trek franchise. There's actually even some good fan-made stuff out there.

 

[southkogs]

you can still hear the chopper blades cant you.....

... but, never before Radar does.

 

[aspeck]

My son, during his infant stage, wouldn't go to sleep at night until he heard the theme from MASH play ...

 

[redneck joe]

... but, never before Radar does.

And he could tell the load....

 

[alldodge]

Mash 4077 episode "Death take a holiday" stays with me still

 

[redneck joe]

Been meaning to ask, I can 'like' or 'reply' but where's the 'laugh' button?

Have to do it the old school way...

 

[redneck joe]

you know they manually went thru every frame and touched up his back side because he thought his butt looked big.

Kinda worried you know that detail, Mr Scott.

 

[Lpgc]

Kinda worried you know that detail, Mr Scott.

Some sort of a pun with Uranus