Inflatable heat shield tested in space
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Uploaded by newscientistvideo on Sep 4, 2009
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17641
Spacecraft may one day use inflatable shields to protect themselves as they plunge into the atmosphere
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@dnj86 how am i getting owned if all i did was ask a question? and no, Luna does not have an atmosphere. <0.0000001 bar is not an atmosphere.
i bet you're one those people that incessantly say "my glass is not empty, it's full of air".
well guess what, so is your head.
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@lygophile yea..moons do have atmospheres..Pandora for example has an atmosphere much similar to that of the earth. only that it contains gasses that are harmful to humans... but thats ok as long as you have gas masks you can go ahead and colonize and chop down the home tree for minerals...
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Our moon also has traces of atmospheric gas. You are just getting owned here left and right.
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@lygophile Io and Triton have trace atmospheres, Titan has an atmosphere I think twice as dense as that of Earth.
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@lygophile Yes, there are moons with atmospheres.
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Reading people whine about how annoying that lady's voice is...is infinitely more annoying than her voice actually is (which isn't too annoying of a voice actually)
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i want to sit in it
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@OldSchoolSkill Haha. Cher >.<
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Oh sure. Now when anyone sees a UFO the goverment can just say it was an inflatable heat shield.
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variousunknownuser 2 years ago 9
Yup, the competition in todays space technology business is rough, and sex just makes everything sell better. Notice the young female voice-over (with the hot accent) when the shadow dick fills the screen: "It took less than 90 seconds to inflate completely and managed to stand the heat of re-entry." Coincidence? I think not. This is porno, man. Porno dressed as science news.
Jespax 2 years ago 4