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Originally Posted by Moogs
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Originally Posted by billybobsky
I do think the most significant thing there is the fact that the craft was able to do reentry/land without human assistance.
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Originally Posted by Moogs
..after being in orbit for 7 months. That part kind of shocked me for whatever reason even though I know it's not hard to keep something in orbit. I guess its the psychological aspect that it's a plane, steered by humans, etc coming back like the shuttle. Pretty bad ass.
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The SCAPE-suited humans probably don't help with the conspiracy nuts, but they do provide scale.
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Meanwhile...
the Japanese AKATSUKI probe arrived at Venus last night.
Climate observations to follow.
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And if you can help program computers to learn, and
help explain dark energy, NASA might give you an iPad.