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suicidejunkie wrote:

Fred the Cat wrote:Not to scare the crap out of everyone but some life forms seem very capable to survival.

We're talking about extreme heating from reentry, and turning things into blobs of plasma.

"You wouldn't really die of anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics."

Fred the Cat wrote:Not to scare the crap out of everyone but some life forms seem very capable to survival.

Art wrote:

(It's Ninja Turtles all the way down in the sewers of New York City.)

Chris Peterson wrote:

naleta wrote:
So they aren't worried about contaminating Jupiter? Some microbes can survive great heat, you know.

Nothing can survive entry heat. And beyond reasonable doubt, no microbe can survive for long in the conditions of Jupiter.

naleta wrote:So they aren't worried about contaminating Jupiter? Some microbes can survive great heat, you know.

Steve Dutch wrote:
neufer: Are you serious about the "rad" definition?

Steve Dutch wrote:
Because it was used long, long before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and stands for "radiation absorbed dose." It equaled 100 ergs per gram, and the SI unit is the gray (joules per kilogram). One gray equals 100 rads, so 5 grays is the approximate average lethal dose (your mileage may vary).

Steve Dutch wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

Steve Dutch wrote:I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

Probably not much. It's doubtful a camera would have provided all that much scientifically useful data. (And there were excellent reasons for not having a camera.)

Sure, if you define seeing the cloud structure as unimportant.

Chris Peterson wrote:

Steve Dutch wrote:I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

Probably not much. It's doubtful a camera would have provided all that much scientifically useful data. (And there were excellent reasons for not having a camera.)

Markus Schwarz wrote:A people complain that scientists don’t know what they are doing.

Steve Dutch wrote:I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

Wadsworth wrote:I didn't like the radiation comparison. .39 Rad exposure at earth is a transient measurement compared to the 20 million Rad exposure they stated for the entire mission. It would be a much better comparison stating the expected average transient Rad measurement at the distance this craft will be orbiting Jupiter.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rad wrote:
Rad: An abbreviation of 'radical'--a term made popular by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Still primarily used by people on the West Coast who find words like 'cool', 'awesome', and 'tight' to be tired and overused; 'rad' is generally considered to be a much higher praise than the aforementioned superlatives. Also used as a general expression of awe.