Livestream up at http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html
I'm allowing myself a shot when the window occurs, and a second shot if we get news of successful landing.
Good luck, little robot!
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Pretty cool coverage.
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and down!
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Touchdown confirmed.
CHEERS!
CHEERS!
Probably want to right click and save this, it's a really big file.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA15689.jpg
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Sir Xsarus wrote:
Probably want to right click and save this, it's a really big file.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA15689.jpg
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Looks like Arizona.
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thats either spirit or oppertunity though.
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I started a liveblog thingy for the higgs, no one was on, so I spent this one in google chat with these guys.
I find it awesome that we had to invent a rocket-crane for this mission. A ROCKET-CRANE. (It was really a rocket-winch, but that doesn't sound as awesome).
Fun fact: In 2010, NASA's budget was about $8.7 billion. In its entire history from 1958 to 2011, the total budget was $526.18 billion. In 2010, the U.S. military budget was $663.85 billion. That means that in one year, the military spent $137.67 billion more than NASA has in more than 50.
I can't post the first image from Curiosity due to an internal server error (KAO!), but here's a link.
Edited, Aug 6th 2012 2:16am by Omegavegeta
I find it awesome that we had to invent a rocket-crane for this mission. A ROCKET-CRANE. (It was really a rocket-winch, but that doesn't sound as awesome).
Fun fact: In 2010, NASA's budget was about $8.7 billion. In its entire history from 1958 to 2011, the total budget was $526.18 billion. In 2010, the U.S. military budget was $663.85 billion. That means that in one year, the military spent $137.67 billion more than NASA has in more than 50.
I can't post the first image from Curiosity due to an internal server error (KAO!), but here's a link.
Edited, Aug 6th 2012 2:16am by Omegavegeta
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
I have co-opted "SKY CRANE" into my lexicon. It should always be shouted or typed in all caps, preferably with many exclamation points.
Omegavegeta wrote:
Fun fact: In 2010, NASA's budget was about $8.7 billion. In its entire history from 1958 to 2011, the total budget was $526.18 billion. In 2010, the U.S. military budget was $663.85 billion. That means that in one year, the military spent $137.67 billion more than NASA has in more than 50.
Yup.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Ari wrote:
or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at allworked perfectly.
We invented a rocket-crane (SKY-CRANE!!!!) in order to drop a 1 ton science-car into a crater on Mars.
Edited, Aug 6th 2012 4:38am by Omegavegeta
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Aripyanfar wrote:
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Aripyanfar wrote:
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.
When do we find out how many Martian cats the Rover has run over?
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
C
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.I have to imagine that's been added to a checklist after the first time.
And yet there are **** ups and near misses troublingly often.
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Samira wrote:
Aripyanfar wrote:
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.
And yet there are **** ups and near misses troublingly often.
Just as Planned.
Timelordwho wrote:
C
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.I have to imagine that's been added to a checklist after the first time.
And yet there are @#%^ ups and near misses troublingly often.
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Samira wrote:
Aripyanfar wrote:
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.
And yet there are @#%^ ups and near misses troublingly often.
When you're autonomously traveling millions of miles toward a target the size of about 5 meters, near misses are a part of the game.
I caught the live feed of the landing. F'kin' awesome work!
Omegavegeta's post about funding put into some sort of perspective of how much evolution humans have yet to achieve tho'.
Omegavegeta's post about funding put into some sort of perspective of how much evolution humans have yet to achieve tho'.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Samira wrote:
Aripyanfar wrote:
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.
Talking about the Cassini kerfuffle?
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Solrain wrote:
WARs can use semi-colons however we want. I once killed a guy with a semi-colon.
LordFaramir wrote:
ODESNT MATTER CAUSE I HAVE ALCHOLOL IN MY VEINGS BETCH ;3
Yes! Couldn't remember the name, thanks.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
BrownDuck wrote:
Timelordwho wrote:
C
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.I have to imagine that's been added to a checklist after the first time.
And yet there are @#%^ ups and near misses troublingly often.
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Samira wrote:
Aripyanfar wrote:
I don't know which is more impressive: that it is apparently in the crater that they aimed it at, or that the thirty bazillion stage rocket-winch landing worked at all.
Or that the meters-to-feet conversion wasn't dropped again.
And yet there are @#%^ ups and near misses troublingly often.
When you're autonomously traveling millions of miles toward a
lolWikipedia wrote:
The Mars Climate Orbiter was launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study Mars and to act as [a Martian satellite]. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion headbutted the planet, due to ground based computer software which produced output in English American units of pound-seconds (lbf-s) instead of the specified metric units of newton-seconds (N-s). The spacecraft encountered Mars at an improperly low altitude, causing [the $200 million satellite] to incorrectly enter the upper atmosphere and disintegrate headbutt the planet.
Rapidly.
Rapidly.
Science.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Samira wrote:
Yes! Couldn't remember the name, thanks.
It only sticks in my mind because some of my Professors was involved in the designing of the probe and such. He held it up as an example of why it's important to have a set of standard measurements for things like that.
In other words LRN2MERTRIC!
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Solrain wrote:
WARs can use semi-colons however we want. I once killed a guy with a semi-colon.
LordFaramir wrote:
ODESNT MATTER CAUSE I HAVE ALCHOLOL IN MY VEINGS BETCH ;3
Aripyanfar wrote:
BrownDuck wrote:
When you're autonomously traveling millions of miles toward a target the size of about 5 meters planet 4220 miles wide, near misses headbutts are a part of the game.
lolWikipedia wrote:
The Mars Climate Orbiter was launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study Mars and to act as [a Martian satellite]. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion headbutted the planet, due to ground based computer software which produced output in English American units of pound-seconds (lbf-s) instead of the specified metric units of newton-seconds (N-s). The spacecraft encountered Mars at an improperly low altitude, causing [the $200 million satellite] to incorrectly enter the upper atmosphere and disintegrate headbutt the planet.
Rapidly.
Rapidly.
Well yeah, there was that.
But that was back in the stone age of interplanetary exploration.
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