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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by klr » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:26 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Kev, you know people only watch these things to see the crashes. :nono:
I'm still waiting for footage of Beagle 2 ending up face-down in a Martian landscape. I feel cheated. :?
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:30 pm

I think it was all a hoax.

There is no way that the rover could have survived the Van Halen radiation belts.

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by klr » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:33 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:I think it was all a hoax.

There is no way that the rover could have survived the Van Halen radiation belts.
:hehe:

Was that a Freudian slip, or do you know something we don't? :ask:
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:35 pm

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Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Kev, you know people only watch these things to see the crashes. :nono:
I'm still waiting for footage of Beagle 2 ending up face-down in a Martian landscape. I feel cheated. :?
Youdidn t see "Tranformers"?

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:05 pm

Stealing that one. :tup:
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Warren Dew » Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:49 am

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Just shows there are two sides to everything.
HOWEVER,......

Americans ARE the fattest nation, and they DID elect George Bush. So it's not completely unfair.
The same George Bush in the middle of whose term in 2004, this Mars project was started.

You have a point about fat people, though.

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:52 am

Yep, the George Bush who gutted NASA's budget.
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:24 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Yep, the George Bush who gutted NASA's budget.
Hasn't Obama since gutted it further? :ask:
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:25 pm

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Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Yep, the George Bush who gutted NASA's budget.
Hasn't Obama since gutted it further? :ask:
Given the debacle he was left everything had to be cut back.
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:42 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Yep, the George Bush who gutted NASA's budget.
Hasn't Obama since gutted it further? :ask:
Given the debacle he was left everything had to be cut back.
"Everything"? "Had to"? :ask:
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Rum » Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:23 pm

Anyone seen this? Its amazing! Can't embed, but make the effort - its worth it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by klr » Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:35 pm

Rum wrote:Anyone seen this? Its amazing! Can't embed, but make the effort - its worth it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19296006
Excellent!

"The primary goal of Curiosity is to get to the base of Mount Sharp over 6km away."

That''ll really test the rover's ability to navigate and traverse over tricky terrain.
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:53 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Yep, the George Bush who gutted NASA's budget.
The NASA budget went up every year under Bush.

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