Nuclear power system delivered for Mars rover launch

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Jun 12, 2020, 11:50

RDTroja

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Jun 12, 2020, 11:58
Going to Mars with 50 year-old technology!

In 1974 I worked for Hittman Nuclear & Development Corp. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hittman Associates, Inc. Another subsidiary was the Hittman Nuclear Battery Corp. which made devices remarkably similar to this for space probes.

The more things change...
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GLW

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Jun 12, 2020, 02:22
Quote from: RDTroja on Jun 12, 2020, 11:58
Going to Mars with 50 year-old technology!

In 1974 I worked for Hittman Nuclear & Development Corp. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hittman Associates, Inc. Another subsidiary was the Hittman Nuclear Battery Corp. which made devices remarkably similar to this for space probes.

The more things change...

well!!!!

in 1974 I was working,....

at the chinese restaurant washing dishes, I was in 9th grade for gawd's sake!!!!


[dowave] [dowave] ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL [whistle] [whistle] [whistle] [sos] [sos] [Flamer]

been there, dun that,... the doormat to hell does not read "welcome", the doormat to hell reads "it's just business"

Rennhack

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Jun 14, 2020, 04:21
Quote from: GLW on Jun 12, 2020, 02:22
in 1974 I was working,.... at the chinese restaurant washing dishes, I was in 9th grade for gawd's sake!!!!

I was 3.

RDTroja

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Jun 15, 2020, 07:36
Whippersnappers.
"I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician."

                                  -Marty Feldman

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to understand that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
                                  -Ronald Reagan

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

                                  - Voltaire

GLW

#5
Jun 15, 2020, 09:52
Quote from: RDTroja on Jun 15, 2020, 07:36
Whippersnappers.

buggy whips?!?!?!?


:P ;) :) 8)


been there, dun that,... the doormat to hell does not read "welcome", the doormat to hell reads "it's just business"

RDTroja

#6
Jun 15, 2020, 11:37
You can't make me feel old... someone else already did a much better job. When I was teaching at King's Mountain for Duke Energy, I told the class that I had been working in nuclear power since 1974 and one 19ish-year-old piped up 'That was the year my daddy was born!''

Now, THAT is old. I almost beat him to death with my cane.
"I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician."

                                  -Marty Feldman

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to understand that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
                                  -Ronald Reagan

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

                                  - Voltaire
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