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...hours during its roundabout nine-month, 500-million-mile journey to Braille, the little craft was accelerated by a futuristic ion-propulsion engine that provided gentle but continuous thrust. And for much of its mission the ship operated somewhat independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...
...important to note that the Faculty members proposed the alternate punishment based mainly ion sealed statement from ad board proceedings which we cannot see. It is therefore difficulty to address the reasons for their proposal specifically, but it is worth analyzing the problem of the "varying categories of rape" raised by this case. (A discussion what the Ad Board's role should be-if any-in handling cases of violent crime is best saved for another...
...other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that has long been the stuff of technological fantasies: an ion propulsion engine...
...ion propulsion and self-navigation, Rayman says, "is analogous to having your car find its own way from L.A. to Washington, arrive at a designated parking place, and do it all while getting 300 m.p.g." By the same analogy, could the car then drive on to other cities too? Apparently. Barring problems, DS1 will have enough fuel and navigational smarts to proceed to a burned-out comet called Wilson-Harrington in January 2001 and, as its grand finale, to Comet Borrelly later that year...