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Live Feed of Curiosity Landing on Mars!
I guess I should say, more accurately, it's live coverage of the Curiosity Rover landing on Mars. I don't know about all you right wing gun nuts, but I think this is really awesome stuff:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57...rover-landing/
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
I'm staying up tonight just to watch the live streaming of this on NASA TV. It's another spectacular achievement but the method of lowering Curiosity on Mars sure is ballsy!
Funny, the Russians have made like 20 attempts at a successful Mars landing, and have never been able to do it. This thing is Science Fiction! 75% Chance of success I would say. Buzz Aldrin had to land his Lunar lander manually, and had like 27 seconds of fuel left.
This will be our 3rd successful Mars landing. Things like this remind me how F*cking awesome our country is.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Here's a really neat picture that shows actual size comparison of all three rovers that we have put on Mars. The smallest one was first, and the biggest one is on its way down as I write this. The size of Curiosity blows me away...
Here's a bunch more interesting info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
The wheelbase of Curiosity is almost exactly the same size as a Mini Cooper.Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Here's a really neat picture that shows actual size comparison of all three rovers that we have put on Mars. The smallest one was first, and the biggest one is on its way down as I write this. The size of Curiosity blows me away...
Here's a bunch more interesting info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory
Hopefully it will be more reliable than the mini.
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
At $2.5 Billion, I sure hope so!
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Hey, my 06 Mini has been extremely reliable and at 40-45mpg, it's affordable (at least more so than Curiosity), AND sporty!!
Back to Mars...
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