Mars Curiosity

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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby Boggy Man » Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:23 am

Press conference now.

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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby Mynock » Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:29 am

Touchdown!!! Rube Goldburg would be proud. 8-) Wish I could've stayed up last night and saw the news firsthand.
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby PM2K » Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:37 pm

Hey, it made it! Sweet! :D
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby kham » Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:36 pm

now. is that cool or what? :mrgreen:
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby PM2K » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:27 am

kham wrote:now. is that cool or what? :mrgreen:


I'd vote for "cool"... :D
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby nachtjaeger » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:50 pm

All right! :D

kham wrote:Data and images being received from the surface of Mars. Rover is wheels down on Mars
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby nachtjaeger » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:51 pm

Somebody on Facebook commented "The first flying saucer lands, it's from earth, and lands on Mars."

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kham wrote:now. is that cool or what? :mrgreen:


I'd vote for "cool"... :D
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby MadMax359 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:04 pm

i just saw the model of Curiosity that's on loan to the Exploratorium in San Francisco... it's amazing how much they packed into something so compact
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby Duncan Edwards » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:33 pm

Perspective...
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Re: Mars Curiosity

Postby Mynock » Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:42 pm

^^HA!! :lol:
One of the nicest features I'm seeing on this beast is the nuclear power source. About damn time they stopped fiddling with solar panels and gave their equipment a reliable source of energy that didn't depend on sunny weather.
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