Mars Landing on Sunday
cooldad
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Complete with farking lasers to zap the martians.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/sp ... 56595904/1
"During its two-year exploration, the plutonium-powered Curiosity will climb the lower mountain flanks to probe the deposits. As sophisticated as the rover is, it cannot search for life. Instead, it carries a toolbox including a power drill, rock-zapping laser and mobile chemistry lab to sniff for organic compounds, considered the chemical building blocks of life. It also has cameras to take panoramic photos."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/sp ... 56595904/1
"During its two-year exploration, the plutonium-powered Curiosity will climb the lower mountain flanks to probe the deposits. As sophisticated as the rover is, it cannot search for life. Instead, it carries a toolbox including a power drill, rock-zapping laser and mobile chemistry lab to sniff for organic compounds, considered the chemical building blocks of life. It also has cameras to take panoramic photos."
I don't do smileys.
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cooldad wrote:it carries a toolbox including a power drill, rock-zapping laser and mobile chemistry lab to sniff for organic compounds, considered the chemical building blocks of life. It also has cameras to take panoramic photos."
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Sounds more like your pimp.sheepsteeth wrote:cooldad wrote:it carries a toolbox including a power drill, rock-zapping laser and mobile chemistry lab to sniff for organic compounds, considered the chemical building blocks of life. It also has cameras to take panoramic photos."
thats like my cake.I don't do smileys.
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The future direction of Mars exploration is hanging on the outcome of this $2.5 billion science project. It takes 14 minutes for radio signals on Mars to travel to Earth.
That’s $178,571,428 per minute for an outcome that will be...alive or dead by the time mission control finds out
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That’s an expensive test. I tried to see how many Marshmallows I could get in my mouth once... that cost £1.27DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY0 -
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cooldad wrote:Complete with farking lasers to zap the martians.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/sp ... 56595904/1
"During its two-year exploration, the plutonium-powered Curiosity will climb the lower mountain flanks to probe the deposits. As sophisticated as the rover is, it cannot search for life. Instead, it carries a toolbox including a power drill, rock-zapping laser and mobile chemistry lab to sniff for organic compounds, considered the chemical building blocks of life. It also has cameras to take panoramic photos."
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It's no good unless it has sharks in there to operate the frickin lasers.
Anyway, what odds on this actually landing okay? There are so many crazy things it needs to do on the way down and so many potential failures.
And that's assuming they've not confused their metric and imperial measurements.0 -
deadkenny wrote:Anyway, what odds on this actually landing okay? There are so many crazy things it needs to do on the way down and so many potential failures.
They seem reasonably confident... Sure it's a complicated lander, but that could work out better than the Spirit/Opportunity method- "Wrap it in balloons and chuck it at the ground, from space, see what happens".Uncompromising extremist0 -
Northwind wrote:deadkenny wrote:Anyway, what odds on this actually landing okay? There are so many crazy things it needs to do on the way down and so many potential failures.
They seem reasonably confident... Sure it's a complicated lander, but that could work out better than the Spirit/Opportunity method- "Wrap it in balloons and chuck it at the ground, from space, see what happens".
I seem to remember doing that with an egg in secondary school. Didnt work then either.Closet jockey wheel pimp whore.0 -
I see there is a live stream of it on the xbox dashboard tonight, I do believe its on around 3am though
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watched it take off whilst on holiday in Florida, thinking about watching it land..... but 3am is a little harsh0
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOYARRRRR ! Touchdown......
And some 'space geeks' as the Sun newspaper aptly named them. :roll:
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Well from those images I'm not convinced. Could be anywhere.
I wanted spectacular footage of the crane crazyness, awesome martian landscapes and a martian as well!0 -
Yeah. But. If they'd had footage of the skycrane in action then there'd be a few other questions needing answered...Uncompromising extremist0
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And in 2 years time it'll be on e-Bay Autos
'One careful owner, low mileage - buyer collects'0 -
Don't know what all the high-5ing is all about, it's not exactly rocket science is it.0
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Fixed it for you.Cat With No Tail wrote:Don't know what all the high-5ing is all about, it's not exactly brain surgery is it.0 -
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the first pics are back anyway:
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