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final hours of galileo

after 14 years

         

JonB

4:24 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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so many legends are dying lately..

[cnn.com...]

his final hours,how he will see them...simulation+countdown:

[jpl.nasa.gov...]

he has only 2 hours to live...farewell galileo..he sent us one of the most amazing pictures ever captured(check best image galerry)

his final hours and he will spend them as last 14 year - serving us for a better understanding of a world around us :)

RIP

jatar_k

4:44 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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strangely unfortunate.

I have to say that the images on that site are absolutely amazing.

2h 11min remaining

jatar_k

5:47 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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1h 10min

I am riveted by the updating images

Yidaki

6:08 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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49 minutes left - that's a sad thing.
Are there any real pictures instead of simluated?

Yidaki

6:56 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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00:01:00 left ...

JonB

6:57 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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He's Dead, Jim! :(

[edited by: JonB at 6:58 pm (utc) on Sep. 21, 2003]

jatar_k

6:57 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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all over

Yidaki

6:58 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Galileo hit jupiter.

Funny, the count down counter at nasa.gov starts to count again up from 0 ...

jatar_k

6:59 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I saw that too, I thought it might have bounced

Yidaki

7:00 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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probably the 52 minutes until galileo's final signal reaches earth?

jpjones

8:07 pm on Sep 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Nope, it's still going.
Bad programming if you ask me.

01:10:05 and counting...