Set the controls for a part of the sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

Launch was aborted. They're going to try again tomorrow.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

5,000 miles?

Quote from: Copper Knickers on August 11, 2018, 12:02:23 AM

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

5,000 miles?

It's a figure I've seen bandied about for the distance to the sun in flat earth models. I'll admit my research wasn't thorough.

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 11, 2018, 07:59:18 AM

Quote from: Copper Knickers on August 11, 2018, 12:02:23 AM

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

5,000 miles?

It's a figure I've seen bandied about for the distance to the sun in flat earth models. I'll admit my research wasn't thorough.

Try about 93 million miles

Quote from: Copper Knickers on August 11, 2018, 08:30:02 AM

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 11, 2018, 07:59:18 AM

Quote from: Copper Knickers on August 11, 2018, 12:02:23 AM

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

5,000 miles?

It's a figure I've seen bandied about for the distance to the sun in flat earth models. I'll admit my research wasn't thorough.

Try about 93 million miles

..........I think......I think it was sarcas.......never mind.

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 11, 2018, 08:36:52 AM

Quote from: Copper Knickers on August 11, 2018, 08:30:02 AM

Quote from: Albert Wesker on August 11, 2018, 07:59:18 AM

Quote from: Copper Knickers on August 11, 2018, 12:02:23 AM

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches in about an hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Quite an exciting mission to put a probe into the sun's corona. Of course, with a trip of around 5,000 miles it should be there in no time...

5,000 miles?

It's a figure I've seen bandied about for the distance to the sun in flat earth models. I'll admit my research wasn't thorough.

Try about 93 million miles

..........I think......I think it was sarcas.......never mind.

I know this.

Lol I like the title, nice reference...

Lol I like the title, nice reference...

It is. I really wish I could claim it as my own. Honesty compels me to credit The Economist:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/08/11/a-new-space-probe-will-study-the-suns-corona-and-the-solar-wind

Ah damn... All the good things on the internet are stolen...