The Astronomy Thread

Borzak

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So is all the programmer in assembler for the spacecraft or do they use a different language?

Super obvious what happened. The aliens took it and read the disc that's on it to communicte to whoever finds it. Now they are returning it.
 
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Ukerric

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So is all the programmer in assembler for the spacecraft or do they use a different language?
All astronomy stuff of that era is either assembly or Forth (which is basically "macro-ready assembler"). They might have exotic things like C, but I doubt it.
 

Cybsled

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Only downside to that Titan mission is it doesn't seem like they will be near the methane lakes/rivers...I would have loved to have seen flyovers of those features
 
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Palum

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They should call it Pluto
 
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Burns

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It'll be planet 10 to me.
Well, if you are counting Pluto, it would be planet 13 or 14 (not including Ceres), since there are multiple bodies around the size of Pluto in the Kuiper belt (which Pluto is also in).

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Kajiimagi

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So last I've read this won't be happening again before Friday , anyone read any different?