Schneibster wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:Schneibster wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:Schneibster wrote:
First lie, every time.
My own words were truthful.
Look, we'd have to dig back about fifty replies ago, to find the original lie so we could actually argue about it. I won't read any of your posts beyond the first lie I find, so you'd have to then try to re-make all the arguments again. It's not going to work out.
That should be no trouble for someone of your evident intellectual prowess. Show me.
You're the one who made it fifty layers deep trying to work the system so you could trump something up and get me in trouble so you could shut me up, because you have no answers for me.
You made the mess. You do the work.
I have no interest in wild goose chases. If one interests you, have at it. And, you got yourself in trouble by breaking the rules. I will say it again - if you are waiting for an answer from me, you'll have to link to or restate the question you think I have not answered. Most folks would be able to remember what they wanted an answer to. You shouldn't even have to search your own posts for your own questions that you know you posed but did not receive a response. I would be happy to answer it, if it's not another personal attack.
Now, back to the Space Program. On a positive note, it looks like the Mars "Curiosity" mission is still scheduled to launch in late November
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ The Curiosity rover will be more than five times as massive, and carry more than ten times the mass of scientific instruments as the rovers Spirit or Opportunity.[13] The MSL Curiosity rover will be launched by an Atlas V 541 rocket and will be expected to operate for at least 1 Martian year (668 Martian sols/686 Earth days) as it explores with greater range than any previous Mars rover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory
The MSL mission has four goals: To determine if life could have ever arisen on Mars, to characterize the climate of Mars, to characterize the geology of Mars, and to prepare for human exploration. To contribute to the four science goals, Mars Science Laboratory has eight scientific objectives:[15][16]
Determine the nature and inventory of organic carbon compounds. If no organic compounds are found, that is useful information, as evidence about life on Mars may not be near the surface. It would also aid understanding of the environmental conditions that remove organics.[17]
Inventory the chemical building blocks of life as we know it: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
Identify features that may represent the effects of metabolism or biosignatures.
Investigate the chemical, isotopic, and mineralogical composition of the Martian surface and near-surface geological materials.
Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils.
Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) Martian atmospheric evolution processes.
Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide.
Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic radiation, solar proton events and secondary neutrons.
Good show, NASA!
It's on an Atlas V rocket, so I may head over to the Cape and see the launch.