November 27, 201015 yr The three space probes will launch and stay in a triangle formation with each other, firing laser beams accross the large distance between them and measuring results to see if any abnormalities show up. This artist
November 27, 201015 yr Didn't NASA's budget got cut up? How are they going to afford it? I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
November 27, 201015 yr If they stop sending people and send probes and robots instead. I imagine that would be quite a bit cheaper. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
November 28, 201015 yr Author To clarify, LISA (this) is in fact 3 probes, unmanned. In terms of funding, LISA is a joint project between NASA (the USA's space agency) and ESA (the EU's space agency). Further to that, Wikipedia notes this: "LISA was recommended in the 2010 U.S. National Research Council decadal report on astronomy and astrophysics as one of two large space missions to be implemented by NASA in the upcoming decade."
November 28, 201015 yr To clarify, LISA (this) is in fact 3 probes, unmanned. In terms of funding, LISA is a joint project between NASA (the USA's space agency) and ESA (the EU's space agency). Further to that, Wikipedia notes this: "LISA was recommended in the 2010 U.S. National Research Council decadal report on astronomy and astrophysics as one of two large space missions to be implemented by NASA in the upcoming decade." Ok what are they hoping to learn? I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
November 28, 201015 yr Author To clarify, LISA (this) is in fact 3 probes, unmanned. In terms of funding, LISA is a joint project between NASA (the USA's space agency) and ESA (the EU's space agency). Further to that, Wikipedia notes this: "LISA was recommended in the 2010 U.S. National Research Council decadal report on astronomy and astrophysics as one of two large space missions to be implemented by NASA in the upcoming decade." Ok what are they hoping to learn? As mentioned in my first post, this is an experiment to detect gravity waves and in doing so learn more about black holes, pulsars, anything that produces gravity waves. It's quite similar really to things like Hubble, the SKA, LOFAR. You can read about the earth-based prototype (LIGO) for this larger space-based experiment (LISA) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO Edited November 28, 201015 yr by Krezack
November 28, 201015 yr Ok what are they hoping to learn? To put it in the simplest terms, the aim is to learn how gravity really works and what causes hiccups. Hiccups will lead to "what can be used to modify gravity in a controlled fashion". one of the baby steps on the way to artificial gravity generation, so to speak. IG. We kick ass and not even take names.
November 29, 201015 yr Author Considering gravity is the single biggest unknown in physics, this is certainly worthwhile.
November 29, 201015 yr To the OP, they're known as gravitational waves. Gravity waves are something completely different. There are none that are right, only strong of opinion. There are none that are wrong, only ignorant of facts
November 29, 201015 yr NASA is wasting a lot of money when they could have just gone to the beach and look at them gravity waves. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
November 29, 201015 yr Author I was hoping we'd get to 10 posts before somebody pointed out my conflation.
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