[extropy-chat] Pluto New Horizons launch -getting ready

[spike]

Oh I see where you are coming from, ja.  The chips themselves can likely
withstand a lot of

acceleration, but we need to get the signals back home somehow.  That
requires the kind

of equipment that cannot with current technology handle the sudden stop, nor
figure out a

way to dig itself out of the crater it would form on impact.  I'll keep
thinking tho.  

 

spike

 

 

 

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bradbury
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Pluto New Horizons launch -getting ready

 


Spike your thinking is still stuck in the "standard model".  (I.e. you have
to decelerate to "land").  Screw that.  Let the damn planet absorb the
momentum, it isn't like its going to alter its orbit significantly.  ...
Finally, current micro chip scales *are* nanotech.  It still comes back to a
question of how many g's they can withstand on impact and what kinds of near
term nanotech can be used to reduce the impact they must withstand. 

Robert

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