Fact ~Curiosity~ Mars landing 6 August

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Brilliant, delighed for them.

As for manned missions to anywhere, well it just isn't going to happen for a multitude of reasons but the biggest is the effect that zero G for prolonged periods has on the human body. Any landing in a thin atmoshpere would likely be hellish and kill the astronaughts off. Space travel will only ever become really viable once we have ships that can generate even a weak artifical gravity field.
 

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I'm thinking they'll go with the g-suit approach with that, since they have to suit up the folk for the mission anyway. Then there's the problem of making a ship to get people there and land at all. Well, it'll always land as mentioned before :p
 

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This dude's hair cracks me up. Full on elvis :D He'a also a fucking genius.
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Fantastic - only shame is how long its going to take to get the interesting data but you cant have everything. Will we find traces of ancient life on mars?
 

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This dude's hair cracks me up. Full on elvis :D He'a also a fucking genius.
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I like this guy a lot. He's the sort of guy that people in my workplace would look at and say "look at his hair, how unprofessional".

He and his team just landed a rover on Mars - tell me about what shit-for-brains work you've done this morning.
 

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I like this guy a lot. He's the sort of guy that people in my workplace would look at and say "look at his hair, how unprofessional".

He and his team just landed a rover on Mars - tell me about what shit-for-brains work you've done this morning.

Well, i design games, so in a way i keep these guys entertained when they need a break from bettering the world :D
 

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I would love that sort of job, get paid to play around with billions of dollars worth of toys and then land something the size of a mini on a different planet. Amazing achievement. I can't wait to see some of the results.
 

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Fuck man, NASA are the special forces of human engineers. They put a fucking car on mars in one piece, in style. Americans should be more positive about themselves and focus on the good shit they do.
 

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If they dropped the whole military overkill(which i know advances tech as we know it in leaps too), we'd get a lot more done spacewise.

Then again, would be prudent to fix the planet before we f*ck up others.
 

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If they dropped the whole military overkill(which i know advances tech as we know it in leaps too), we'd get a lot more done spacewise.

Then again, would be prudent to fix the planet before we f*ck up others.
I doubt it, the USAF are putting stuff into space, pushing technology forward at quite a pace.
 

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We probably wouldn't.

The only reason we are in space is because of military technology, primarily the invention and development of rocket motors but also to a lesser extent, trajectory analysis, navigation systems etc
 

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True, but we could drop it now and focus on non killing stuff. You don't have to have war to advance tech, even if war does advance tech.
 

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I hope Curiosity isn't sending broken images back to Earth. What a waste of time that would be. :(
 

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Does the rover have a twitter account? @ mars?

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I like this guy a lot. He's the sort of guy that people in my workplace would look at and say "look at his hair, how unprofessional".

He and his team just landed a rover on Mars - tell me about what shit-for-brains work you've done this morning.
more people who look normal tbh. espesh in the UK. power to all the brill people who refuse the corporate armor!
 

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If there are cats on mars will Curiosity kill them and cause an interplanetary war?
 

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The Cat is already dead, it's the Red Planet because their blood stained the surface when it was spilled by Pluto.
 

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lies, the cat is both alive and dead :p we have to wait for Higgs manipulation to see what it is, exactly!
 

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Did I read somewhere Obama isn't a massive fan of NASA?
 

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We probably wouldn't.

The only reason we are in space is because of military technology, primarily the invention and development of rocket motors but also to a lesser extent, trajectory analysis, navigation systems etc

You missed out spy sats - those things have been key since the beginning.
 

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The parachute should have had the stars and stripes on top. That would have been excellent.

Amazing achievement though, fancy pointing a satellite orbiting another planet in the right direction to capture the landing of a probe that's just arrived from elsewhere in the solar system.
 

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