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Mars Curiosity
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Re: Mars Curiosity
I sink, therefore I WAM!!!!
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Re: Mars Curiosity
Touchdown!!! Rube Goldburg would be proud.
Wish I could've stayed up last night and saw the news firsthand.

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

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now. is that cool or what? 

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kham wrote:now. is that cool or what?
I'd vote for "cool"...

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All right!

kham wrote:Data and images being received from the surface of Mars. Rover is wheels down on Mars
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Somebody on Facebook commented "The first flying saucer lands, it's from earth, and lands on Mars."
PM2K wrote:kham wrote:now. is that cool or what?
I'd vote for "cool"...
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Re: Mars Curiosity
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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Perspective...
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Re: Mars Curiosity
^^HA!!
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.

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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