Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool 229
Hugh Pickens writes "In the 1970s and 80s, several probes landed on Venus and returned data from the surface but they all expired less than 2 hours after landing because of Venus' tremendous heat. It's hard to keep a rover functioning when temperatures of 450 C are hot enough to melt lead but NASA researchers have designed a refrigeration system that might be able to keep a robotic rover going for as long as 50 Earth days using a reverse Stirling engine. NASA has not committed to a Venus rover mission, but a 2003 National Academies of Science study recommended that high priority be given to a robot mission to investigate the Venusian surface helping to answer such questions as why Venus ended up so different from Earth and if the changes have taken place relatively recently."
No problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Better make the bionic man first (Score:1, Funny)
From the Stirling Engine article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i've always said (Score:2, Funny)
I'd get pretty scared once they get a taste for Terran ribs and start hunting us for food from their flying saucers.
With apologies to obese people. I suck.
(And I taste bad.)
The real test (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No problem. (Score:3, Funny)
Given that there are at least 100 nuclear reactors in the world, I'm not exactly reassured.
Re:i've always said (Score:3, Funny)
Almost a solution (Score:2, Funny)
Welcome! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I know the truth (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be veneraformed or something?
Also, you forgot: 7. ??? and 8. Profit!
-Mike