[extropy-chat] Genesis probe crashes

[Mike Lorrey]

Uh, it HAD a parachute, which did not open, which is why it did not get
recovered. The point of the air recovery was to spare any impact shock
which would even occur if the chute opened. The other point of it was
that it is far easier to recover it in mid air than to search the vast
wilderness on the ground for it...

--- Henrique Moraes Machado <hemm at openlink.com.br> wrote:

> Which proves what a good idea it was to try and catch it in mid-air
> instead of a simple parachute.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
> To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:33 PM
> Subject: [extropy-chat] Genesis probe crashes
> 
> 
> |
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6182701
> | 
> | 
> | PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - A space capsule returning solar
> particles to 
> | Earth after a three-year mission that probed the origins of the
> solar 
> | system crashed in the Utah desert before it could be captured in a
> mid-air 
> | recovery, officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on
> Wednesday. 
> | 
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Mike Lorrey
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It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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