Mission Complete! WMAP In 'Graveyard Orbit' 114
astroengine writes "The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has, quite literally, changed our view of the Universe. And after nine years of mapping the slight temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, its job is done and NASA has commanded the probe to fire itself into a 'graveyard orbit' around the sun. WMAP measured the most precise age of the universe (13.75 billion years), discovered more evidence supporting dark energy and dark matter theories, and found one or two mysteries along the way."
Re:Why not send it plunging ... (Score:3, Funny)
We put it in the Graveyard and wait for night to send it all the way.
Re:Why not send it plunging ... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, what would the Klingons do without deactivated shooting targets?
Re:Why not send it plunging ... (Score:3, Funny)
Or some SciFi writer discovers it and the damsels appear, followed by the evil tentacled villains . . .
Sounds like a day in the life of my Adamantine miners.
Re:Why not send it plunging ... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, we're waiting for it to become a zombie, and then start killing satellites that are still working, turning them into zombies as well...
It's all crap (Score:1, Funny)
This stupid thing would have accurately reported the age of the universe as 6,000 years (give or take a little) if only they hadn't launched it with a rocket (Satan's Gravity Sled).
Obviously shooting it off into space like that wrecked its sensors. They should have done it the way god said...by having Jesus throw it toward the dinosaur Adam and Eve were riding to church and letting it use its tail to blast it on its way like Babe Ruth done with them baseballs.
Who says us Creation Science people don't know what we're talking about!
Re:It's all crap (Score:4, Funny)
Silly Christian propaganda! Islam provides a far more accurate view of the heavens than any man-made space doohickey . I bet Muhammed (Geese be upon him) got a pretty good look at space while he was traveling around on his flying mutant horsie, hobnobbing with all and sundry in heaven.
Hmm, come to think of it I think there may have been some man/horse love - at least if this excerpt is anything to go by:
"Hearing this he (the mutant horsie) was so ashamed that he sweated until he became soaked, and he stood still so that the Prophet mounted him."
Re:Why not send it plunging ... (Score:3, Funny)
It'll come back as W'AP looking for the creator.