Fact ~Curiosity~ Mars landing 6 August

[cHodAX]

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.

 

[old.Tohtori]

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

 

[Chilly]

This dude's hair cracks me up. Full on elvis He'a also a fucking genius.

 

[rynnor]

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?

 

[old.user4556]

This dude's hair cracks me up. Full on elvis He'a also a fucking genius.

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.

 

[old.Tohtori]

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

 

[Raven]

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.

 

[Tuthmes]

 

[Chilly]

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.

 

[old.Tohtori]

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.

 

[Chilly]

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.

 

[Raven]

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

 

[old.Tohtori]

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.

 

[MYstIC G]

Necessity is the mother of invention. For anything American necessity is just another word for Paranoia.

 

[Tom]

 

[caLLous]

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

 

[old.user4556]

This is amazing, I hope it fucks Cohagen good.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Does the rover have a twitter account? @ mars?

"Like sand everywhere, totes craycray."

 

[MYstIC G]

https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity

 

[cHodAX]

This dude's hair cracks me up. Full on elvis He'a also a fucking genius.

Got a good head of hair for a mid 40's, lucky bastard!

 

[TdC]

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!

 

[old.Tohtori]

power to all the brill people who refuse the corporate armor!

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[cHodAX]

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

 

[MYstIC G]

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

 

[TdC]

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

 

[TdC]

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indeed, only Daedric armor is acceptable

 

[Lamp]

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

 

[rynnor]

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.

 

[old.user4556]

http://twitpic.com/ag8j1w/full

 

[Tom]

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.