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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:41 pm

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Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Noon in S.K., FBM.
That would be slightly better, but I'm calculating 2:30 p.m.-ish. 37 hours from now, more or less. What am I missing, number-wise? It's 1:15 a.m. here now.
The coverage starts at 10 PM EDT in the US, YMMV.
I take it on faith that this information is useful to somebody, somewhere...however...
That's when it starts here. Adjust your time zone for a window. I'm not going to call a precise start of coverage for anyone, especially those in weird locations.
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Tyrannical » Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:19 pm

Rum wrote:Anyone else excited by this? Human beings can do such astonishing things!
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/
I'm excited by it. US scientist and engineers are quite amazing, and a cut above the rest of the world. No other country could pull something off like this.
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:29 pm

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Rum wrote:Anyone else excited by this? Human beings can do such astonishing things!
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/
I'm excited by it. US scientist and engineers are quite amazing, and a cut above the rest of the world. No other country could pull something off like this.
I'm gonna wait till mondays DOA call before using that in my signature. :tup:
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Rum » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:38 pm

Atheist-Lite wrote:
Tyrannical wrote:
Rum wrote:Anyone else excited by this? Human beings can do such astonishing things!
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/
I'm excited by it. US scientist and engineers are quite amazing, and a cut above the rest of the world. No other country could pull something off like this.
I'm gonna wait till mondays DOA call before using that in my signature. :tup:
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:48 pm

Rum wrote:
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Tyrannical wrote:
Rum wrote:Anyone else excited by this? Human beings can do such astonishing things!
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/
I'm excited by it. US scientist and engineers are quite amazing, and a cut above the rest of the world. No other country could pull something off like this.
I'm gonna wait till mondays DOA call before using that in my signature. :tup:
I let my temper get the better of me concerning this 'individual'. Apologies to the forum. Deleting the offending comment.
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Tyrannical » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:51 pm

In other news, humans took all three medals in every single Olypic event. Go humans!

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by mistermack » Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:45 pm

Tyrannical wrote:In other news, humans took all three medals in every single Olypic event. Go humans!
Yeh, bloody typical.

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Rum » Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:54 pm

Vain hope I know, but it would' be fantastic if this thread could stay on topi...

Oh forget it. :bored:

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:13 pm

Rum wrote:Vain hope I know, but it would' be fantastic if this thread could stay on topi...

Oh forget it. :bored:

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It's just another mars rover....this could have easily been put down safely with airbags. I'm pretty good with engineering. They chose the difficult way because they wanted funding. I don't see it landing in one piece but then that wasn't it's point.
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Post by normal » Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:20 pm

I usually just eat Snickers, but I consider myself Mars-curious
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Pappa » Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:18 am

normal wrote:I usually just eat Snickers, but I consider myself Mars-curious
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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Warren Dew » Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:53 am

Atheist-Lite wrote:It'll get shot down like most of them. :read:

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Tyrannical wrote:In other news, humans took all three medals in every single Olypic event. Go humans!
I'm still rooting for the Martians.

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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:17 am

Pasadena: Hey, wait, I- I'm getting a no-go signal. Now I'm losing one of the craft. Hey Bermuda, you getting it?
Bermuda: Nah, lost contact. There's a lot of dust blowing up there.
Pasadena: Now I lost the second craft. We got problems.
Bermuda: Full contact lost, Pasadena. Maybe the antenna's--...
Pasadena: What's that flare? See it? A green flare coming from Mars.


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Re: The Mars Curiosity thread

Post by Pensioner » Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:44 am

Tyrannical wrote:
Rum wrote:Anyone else excited by this? Human beings can do such astonishing things!
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/
I'm excited by it. US scientist and engineers are quite amazing, and a cut above the rest of the world. No other country could pull something off like this.
After reading this crap I did some research and discovered that Curiosity Rover is a multi national endeavor, mainly American but never the less multi national.


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