GLAST TO BLAST OFF IN 6 MINUTES

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Source: NASA

GLAST is the Nasa gamma Ray detector. - cool shit!

Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/main/index.html

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this is a great experiment. blasting off now

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. hah. they changed it to 9 minutes.

the NASA link has the count down.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. new launch window - 12:05 EST

apparently, a down comm link on an atlantic island caused the delay.

This gamma ray detector will be able to peer into dark matter, black holes, and what happens when two stars collide.

oh, all you flat earth, 7,019 yr old universe folks? FUCK OFF.

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3. Thanks for posting this!

I can't believe how far they have come with cosmology in the last 20 years. We are closing in on answers to questions they never would've thought to ask when I was born. :thumbsup:

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4. HOT DAMN THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

a great lift off!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. now 13 miles high, all solid boosters successfully jettison'd

everything looks good.

NOW 36 miles high, 128 miles out.

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6. main engine cut off - DONE!

it's already cruising at more than 9000 mph.

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7. 104 miles up, 1080 miles out, going REAL FAST.

second stage burn is perfect.

I guess despite the flat earthers who Bush injected into NASA, things still work.

GLAST is - how does one put this? REAL SCIENCE.