NASA Revamps Historic 4-Million-kg Mars Antenna 66
coondoggie writes NASA is working on some difficult renovations to reinvigorate its 70-meter-wide 'Mars antenna.' The antenna, a key cog in NASA's Deep Space Network, needs about $1.25M worth of what NASA calls major, delicate surgery. The revamp calls for lifting the antenna — about 4 million kilograms of finely tuned scientific instruments — to a height of about 5 millimeters so workers can replace the steel runner, walls and supporting grout."
In other news, Apple is happy. (Score:5, Funny)
Antenna problems are not specific to the iphone.
Re:In other news, Apple is happy. (Score:5, Funny)
I hadn't made used the joke yet!.
In Soviet Russia, joke hadn't made used YOU!
4 million kilograms (Score:5, Funny)
4 million kilograms; why can't we just use metric as it was intended?
4 Gigagrams.
Re:4 million kilograms (Score:2, Funny)
4 million kilograms; why can't we just use metric as it was intended?
4 Gigagrams.
4 nano hellagrams
Re:4 million kilograms (Score:4, Funny)