Comments on: NASA makes a WISE choice

By: A Hot Piece of Hardware: NASA’s New Orbiter Will Map the Entire Sky in Infrared | JetLib News

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:59:13 +0000

[...] Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has been under construction since 2006. The satellite will spend six months mapping the entire sky in the infrared, after which it will [...]

By: CR

CR — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:43:58 +0000

Dr. ‘Tiger’ Ninestein says “Expect the unexpected!”

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:04:09 +0000

If aliens in space colonies were nibbling away at our Oort cloud, would their colonies give off a faint IR trace?

GAry 7

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:08:56 +0000

Don’t you mean Nibiru, Kyle?

To steal a bit of Slashdot/Engadget schtick: I, for one, welcome our infrared, Nibiru/Nemesis/Planet X-detecting overlord!

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:45:31 +0000

Only $300 million? That sounds pretty bargain basement to me.

Is that the entire program (hardware development, launch fees and operation)? One good booster launch is about that much.

- Jack

By: Kyle_Carm

Kyle_Carm — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:06:11 +0000

Ooooo, nearby brown dwarf….sounds like a Nemesis hunt to me.

By: Berkeley

Berkeley — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:54:11 +0000

If you expect to find them, then they can’t be *unexpected* objects, can they?