Catching a piece of the Sun

[xero305]

NASA is dropping a piece of the Sun to eartch and some Hollywood stunt helicopter pilots are going to catch it. Really cool stuff. :)

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996305

Comments

[queenofprussia]

how the hell can you drop a piece of the sun? How are they even getting close enough to get a piece? *blond moment i'm sure, but just completely confused.*

[xero305]

Read the article and find out. My comments on the article were meant to incite interest and get people to read and discuss the article. :)

[queenofprussia]

well, you know me...I ask first, read later...LOL!

*off to read*

[xero305]

:)

[sounperfect]

That's so cool. I used to want to be a sceintist. lol.

[xero305]

I still want to be a scientist, but a computer scientist, not the cooler kind.

[xero305]

Definitely some interesting stuff. I wish they went into more detail about how they obtained the samples and how the container is constructed that is holding the samples. That would have been a very interesting read.

[xero305]

I don't think the story is large enough at the moment to do a story on it, maybe by this time next year when they have gathered and compiled all the information from the samples there will be though. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.