I'm not sending the whole article--you can find that on CNN--but our
favorite computer is still used as a reference point:
Later.................Howard
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Computer n. A pocket calculator with a glandular problem.
Robot ship braces for death by Jove
By Richard Stenger
CNN
The Galileo spacecraft will dive into Jupiter's nightside Sunday.
(CNN) -- A resilient robot ship that has explored Jupiter and its
moons for eight years will dive into the crushing atmosphere of the
giant planet Sunday, a spectacular finale to one of the most
productive deep-space missions ever.
Galileo, its propellant running low and its electrical systems on the
blink, will nonetheless keep a handful of its 10 instruments on during
the final hours, giving scientists a chance to squeeze some final data
from the $1.4 billion mission.
NASA charted the collision course to prevent Galileo, a heap of metal,
plutonium and gadgets the size of a sport utility vehicle, from
striking Jupiter's largest moons, considered some of the most
promising sites to search for life beyond Earth.
"Galileo is one of the most successful outer worlds missions that the
Earth has ever launched," said Colleen Hartman, NASA's director of
solar system exploration. "This spacecraft has given us some
unbelievable discoveries."
Since its launch in 1989, the droid has managed to do quite a bit with
a computer brain comparable to that of an Apple II.
It snapped the first picture of an asteroid with a moon. And in 1994,
a year before it began orbiting Jupiter, it witnessed the biggest
explosion ever recorded on a planetary body, a comet that struck
Jupiter with hundreds of times the explosive force of the world's
nuclear arsenals.
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