08-05-2012, 23:38
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TOUCHDOWN !!!!!
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08-06-2012, 00:11
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08-06-2012, 00:33
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Surprisingly, no Tebowing amid the congratulatory high fiving at JPL.
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08-06-2012, 05:08
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Another milestone reached. For those interested, National Geographic will air a show on Curiosity's initial journey from the drawing board to launch time - Thursday, 8/9, 10P.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...a-jpl-science/
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But seldom in human history has science had an opportunity this grand. Curiosity will be looking for the carbon-based building blocks of life, using instruments that have a good chance of finding them if they're present; it will be searching for habitats that could have once supported life; and just possibly it will find some biosignatures that show, or at least strongly suggest, that Mars was indeed once home to living things.
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08-06-2012, 07:16
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I wonder if Quaid managed to get the O2 generator started before Curiosity landed?
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08-06-2012, 08:22
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Vary cool. That was a room full of happy nerds for sure!
I was afraid it was going to be a yard dart. Good job. What a country!
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08-06-2012, 09:15
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I wonder if any of them are going to use Howard's pick up line on Big Bang- "
"Hey Baby, wanna drive a car on another planet?"
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08-06-2012, 12:24
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I wonder if Quaid managed to get the O2 generator started before Curiosity landed?
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Looks as if he did.
Nyaaahyha !!!!!!!!
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08-06-2012, 14:05
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Amazing.
I hope I see a manned mission to Mars in my lifetime. I know there is talk of one in 2030's so we'll see.
If so it most likely won't be a U.S. only mission
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...ver/56656270/1
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08-06-2012, 14:31
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Here's a shot of Curiosity under canopy, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19150849
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08-06-2012, 15:10
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Very happy for the JPL nerds. There were 79 functions that had to perform flawlessly in order for Curiosity to land safely...and none of them had been pre-tested. If just one of them had failed it would have been crash & burn, and maybe not just for the spacecraft. There are quite a number of NASA people out of work in this state thanks to our CINC.
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08-06-2012, 18:11
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Very great news!
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08-07-2012, 10:31
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And the photos keep rolling in
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08-07-2012, 12:54
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They've found four Starbucks but no signs of intelligent life.
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08-07-2012, 14:41
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Quote:
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Im not sure there is intelligent life on this planet.
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Definitely not in DC.
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