posted on Jun, 22 2006 @ 09:52 AM
Hey everybody.
This was the Genesis craft, as others have stated.
It spent several years in space, collecting primordial dust from the solar system in a special light weight aerogel. (The saucer had a giant collector
dish that opened to expose honeycomb shaped collector tubes..) It was then supposed to come back to earth and parachute softly down, where a
helicopter was supposed to catch the craft with a giant scap net. Barring that, it was to land softly in the desert.
Sadly, the engineer's put in the decelerometers (to detect earth entry)
BACKWARDS.
As a result, the decelerometers were waiting to detect acceleration, and never fired. Hence, the parachute did not deploy and it tumbled to
earth...splat.....
They were tracking it during entry because the helicopter was supposed to catch it. Well, I suppose they track everything. Anyway, once the parachutes
didn't deploy it was like watching your new car role down hill into a tree.
The scientists claim they have recovered some of the fragments from the capsule, but I donno if thats really reliable as the stardust was thoroughly
mixed with Utah dust.
p.s. If this had been a black project someone saw (as opposed toa highly touted nasa program) we wouldn't have seen the video, and eye witness
accounts would have been offset by official statements of an engine part falling off of a 757 over the desert.
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