eesh Wrote:
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> A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope
> painstakingly built to scan the sky at wavelengths
> invisible to the human eye crashed in the
> Australian outback Thursday, destroying the
> astronomy experiment and just missing nearby
> onlookers, according to Australian media reports.
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> "Today was a terrible day for a lot of people,"
> wrote Eric Bellm, a graduate astronomy student at
> the UC Berkeley, in a blog chronicling the science
> mission. "For the NCT team, we've poured our
> hearts into this instrument for years. It was an
> almost unfathomable shock to find ourselves
> cleaning up the wreckage of our gondola rather
> than watching it lift off towards space."
There's NO WAY a private company can do what NASA does! Crashing balloons? Losing probes over Mars? Having a shuttle disintegrate during re-entry? How can we possibly trust private industry to do that?
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