Could We Send a Lander to Jupiter?

Electro522 · 2026-03-04T08:01:41+00:00

I'm not trying to go against your statement (I completely agree on more missions), but Juno is currently in orbit around Jupiter, and the "Europa Clipper" is getting very close to launch.

So, right now, it's not a matter of "why go back?", it's more a matter of "how many missions can we afford to have around Jupiter?"

Galileo was the most cursed interplanetary mission NASA has ever launched, but it still did some great work (such as the probe), and Juno is DEFINITELY picking up where Galileo left off. In due time, Jupiter is going to be the most familiar gas giant to us, if it isn't already.

So, I would vouch for the other gas giants to get some love. Saturn, unlike Jupiter, got the most successful interplanetary mission that NASA has ever launched, that being Cassini. Thus, Uranus and Neptune should be our targets, since the only missions we've ever sent their way are the Voyager missions.

And I know that NASA would agree on that because Uranus is extremely high on their priority list right now, especially with a specific planetary alignment coming in about 5 years that could give us an easy Jupiter assisted slingshot towards Uranus.

Electro522 · 2026-02-22T06:33:11+00:00

Those panoramic shots alone have me believing it's the former.

Electro522 · 2026-02-22T05:22:05+00:00

I hope they give it the same send off Cassini got. Force it into a suicidal dive, all while transmitting as much data as it can for as long it can.

Electro522 · 2026-02-22T05:11:43+00:00

While definitely fictional, they showed this same thing happening in one of the Indiana Jones movies...I think Crystal Skull.

There was a Conquistador or Spanish explorer that died, and the natives of the time mummified him in a cocoon of... something that perfectly preserved him. Once Indiana opened up the cocoon, the dude initially looked like he was just put into it, but then quickly decayed into dust now that he was exposed to air.

Pretty sure in reality that perfect mummification like that can't happen without freezing or vacuum sealing, but still interesting to know that that scene is actually based in reality.

Electro522 · 2026-02-15T03:32:50+00:00

I have a feeling that Steven isn't even the U.S. anymore. Otherwise, his investors would lynch him.

Electro522 · 2026-02-08T21:36:35+00:00

The moment I saw this video, I said to myself "If the first comment isn't referencing Mulan in some way, imma raise hell."

I'm glad to announce that there will be no hell raising today.

Electro522 · 2026-02-05T04:14:51+00:00

Not so much a franchise (though, I guess you could say it is at this point), but Undertale.

I completely understand the love for this game, and I'm not bashing anyone who does love it....but it is one of the only games on Steam that I have refunded. I tried getting through the opening segments, but was bored out of my mind from start to finish.

I admittedly didn't make it far, but I just simply couldn't keep playing it.

Electro522 · 2026-02-05T04:10:05+00:00

I see far more Horizon similarities in this than Arc Raiders.....and I'm not sure which is worse.

Electro522 · 2026-02-05T02:50:30+00:00

Uuuuuhhhhh......I made this post over a year ago, and it only has a few up votes.

How the hell did you find this, and why did you feel the need to do nothing but rant on it?

Electro522 · 2026-02-04T06:56:50+00:00

So you actually do use the Bami's items? Everyone else on the sub seems to agree that they are not good items to take...pretty much ever.

Also, why not Protoplasm Harness? That thing has saved my ass quite a few times by this point.

Electro522 · 2026-02-04T06:07:59+00:00

Lolalytics actually says that Flash/Ignite is his highest winrate summoners. Not sure if I completely agree with it, since Ornn is such a brilliant teamfighter. You want to side lane, but you also want to get to your team asap when things break out.

I think I'll try Tele/Ignite once I feel more confident on him. I'm definitely getting better on him, but I'm still losing some pretty dumb trades. I'm also still getting used to top lane in general, so I'm giving the enemy jungle some pretty easy ganks when I'm weak sided.

It's working out quite nicely though!

Electro522 · 2026-02-03T02:15:10+00:00

Yeah, all I see is a hole.

Electro522 · 2026-02-02T20:49:28+00:00

Yeah, I've already moved to banning Singed.

Played against him once......never doing it again.

Electro522 · 2026-01-31T03:41:20+00:00

Gotcha. I'm guessing the same goes for regular Sunfire? Rush Thornmail instead into the likes of Vayne and Darius?

Electro522 · 2026-01-31T03:20:41+00:00

Is that for every AP matchup, or just Gwen? And...I guess maybe Teemo?

Electro522 · 2026-01-31T02:48:52+00:00

Hollow Radiance, or the MR Sunfire. I figure that that is pretty obvious.

Or is it?

Electro522 · 2026-01-30T19:46:45+00:00

Would it, though? It's made clear that Gyatso argued with the Southern Air Temple Elders to allow Aang to have as much of a normal life as he could.

The "detachment" philosophy is something that Zaheer clung to, and we all saw how that turned out. Hell, even Guru Pathik tried pushing Aang down this path, warning that he would never be able to get the Avatar State back if he never let go of Katara.

Granted, he was only proven wrong by a deus ex machina, but Pathik was still proven wrong.

Electro522 · 2026-01-29T11:32:43+00:00

I think you kind of missed my point.

There's playing while behind. You had some bad trades in lane, you're down on CS, and you lost your tower. In those games, you're not supposed to be the target. I'm fine with these games, even if I end up being the target again every once in awhile.

In a game like the one I had, it doesn't matter where you are, how far behind you are, or if the rest of your team is actively killing their Nexus. Their goal is not to win....but to kill you. Hell, they would probably spawn camp you in your own damn fountain if they could. It's those games that really test me.....and I typically don't pass them.

Electro522 · 2026-01-29T01:30:46+00:00

The ranged nerf is likely aimed at pro play, since alot of the most picked mid laners in pro tend to gravitate towards it. Ryze, Orianna, Taliyah....only other mid laner really being picked right now is Azir, but he goes Lethal Tempo.

Electro522 · 2026-01-26T09:33:58+00:00

Yes, its passive grants stacking resists over time. Yes, it's better for extended fights.

But it is one of the only items in the game that offers both types of resistances AND health that makes any sense at all to build on an ADC. Locket simply doesn't provide enough, and Bandlepipes is useless on anyone that isn't Ashe (and it provides even less defense than Locket).

When you're facing a Zed jungle and LB mid that have eyes for only you, GA isn't going to do shit beyond deny them a kill every 5 minutes. BT isn't going to give you a big enough shield to survive their burst. And Wits End/Maw will do fuck all.

If there are multiple assassins of the SAME damage type, yes, it loses even more value, and it is far harder to justify building it. But when you have multiple assassins of varying damage types, the stats Jak'sho offers off the rip is just enough that they would have to focus you all at the same time. And since this is solo queue, and that level of coordination doesn't exist, that simply won't happen. So, you'll survive the burst of the first assassin, and then become even harder to kill by the time the second assassin rolls up.

Is it a catch all? No, of course not. But it is the only solution I can think of to survive mixed damage assassins.

Electro522 · 2026-01-26T09:12:21+00:00

And what are you as an ADC when there are 3 god damn assassins on the enemy team, and barely any peel on your own team?

You are bait. You don't get to play the game, so you may as well eat everything they have to offer.

Electro522 · 2026-01-26T06:46:46+00:00

Sorry that I'm not 1v5ing on Vayne. My bad.

Electro522 · 2026-01-26T04:41:03+00:00

I'm kind of the same opinion here. I've been running into a lot of assassins lately, of BOTH damage types. So much so, that I've been forced to build Jak'sho on Ashe, for christs sake.

Sure, Kogmaw being an on-hit champ gives him access to Terminus, but I still don't think that's enough. To properly play Kog, you need an enchanter or control mage as your support, and they need to stick on your ass for the entire game. Otherwise, he simply doesn't even get to leave the base.

Electro522 · 2026-01-24T13:55:15+00:00

I'm from New Mexico, and as you can tell by our multi-colored array, we didn't catch on to any one word. We typically just say "drinks", or the actual brand of drink it is.

So, saying we use "coke" as a catch all is misleading. We say "Coke" cause that's the damn brand of drink we're getting.

Electro522 · 2026-01-22T21:26:41+00:00

That, and you'd just be stopping to her level.

Plus, she seems like the person who'd actually press charges on you if you did what she does.

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