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Title: Crazy space travel stuff
Post by: Entsuropi on January 15, 2005, 11:42:24 PM

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Anniversary_VisMar/index_noaccess.html

European space agency probe sends back surfacepictures of Titan, one of the moons of Jupiter. Also sound as it passes jupiters rings (!).

NASA rovers crawl around mars, taking pictures and sending back videos (!!) .

Fascinating stuff. Seeing the surface of other worlds makes my mind explode with the desire to run a RPG based on the exploration of them in the first stages of colonisation/terraforming.

Title: Re: Crazy space travel stuff
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on January 16, 2005, 01:53:22 AM

I have wanted to go to Titan ever since reading Clarke's Imperial Earth back when I was in junior high.

Title: Re: Crazy space travel stuff
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on January 16, 2005, 03:28:32 AM

I want to go to Europa and visit Santa Claus.

(TLE joke)

Title: Re: Crazy space travel stuff
Post by: Oldie Black Witch on January 16, 2005, 03:39:26 AM

Then you can find out, once and for all, whether he's really a vampire.