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Walter

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Is this all this forum is about to you.. bashing Obama, spewing your hate towards a man because of his color and giving out red negs..

You're nothing but a racisat troll.

I can give you negs to.. lots of them. ;-)
Oh, no.
 

B00Mer

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LOL wow another neg from Walter.. I think I have to start considering any neg as a plus from Walter..

Frigg'in Racist Troll

 

earth_as_one

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Is this all this forum is about to you.. bashing Obama, spewing your hate towards a man because of his color and giving out red negs..

You're nothing but a racisat troll.

I can give you negs to.. lots of them. ;-)
I never thought Walter hated Obama because he's black. He hates Obama because he's a democrat and not enough of a right wing extremist for his taste. But I haven't read all of W's posts so maybe I missed something.

Meanwhile congratulations to NASA and the USA for landing Curiosity!

I follow all space programs.
 

Goober

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I never thought Walter hated Obama because he's black. He hates Obama because he's a democrat and not enough of a right wing extremist for his taste. But I haven't read all of W's posts so maybe I missed something.

Meanwhile congratulations to NASA and the USA for landing Curiosity!

I follow all space programs.

So are you on Mars now?
 

Kakato

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As a kid I had a book called someday we will go to the moon,a few years later I remember my mom waking us kids up very early in the morning to watch the first man on the moon on a black and white T.V.
We have come a long ways since then.
 

EagleSmack

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Technologically yes. Its unfortunate that manned space flight never advanced past that. Its odd that no one has left near Earth orbit in over 40 years.

And what a physical toll it takes on the astronauts simply in earth orbit.

We're just not ready yet it would seem.
 

earth_as_one

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I follow all space programs, not just the American program.

China's space activities don't get much coverage here in the West. While China may not be the most advanced program, my money is on them sending the first manned mission to Mars.
 

BaalsTears

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I follow all space programs, not just the American program.

China's space activities don't get much coverage here in the West. While China may not be the most advanced program, my money is on them sending the first manned mission to Mars.
I agree. The American civilian manned space program is over. President Obama ended it by cancelling the project to return to the moon. If American civilians go back to space it will be as hitchhikers. China has the money and determination to land on the moon, use it, and then to move on to Mars.
 

Locutus

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The upcoming videos are should be pretty good.

What Powers the Mars Curiosity Rover?



The Mars Curiosity rover landed successfully on Mars late last night, but what's powering the Red Planet's latest inhabitant?
Curiosity may have traveled 352 million miles between Earth and Mars, but on the surface, it might not seem that much more powerful than the average gadget you have lying around your house.



According to NASA, Curiosity is equipped with just 2GB of flash memory (the new MacBook Air offers up 64GB, 128GB, or 265GB). However, that 2GB is eight times as much as previous Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, had on board the space agency said.

Curiosity's computer chip also got a speed boost over its younger siblings. It clocks at up to 200 megahertz, 10 times the clock of the Spirit and Opportunity computers. There's also 256MB of RAM and 256KB of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory in Curiosity's calculating engine.



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What Powers the Mars Curiosity Rover? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
 

Kreskin

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Does anyone know, if Curiosity finds a cat on Mars is it programmed to kill it?
 

BaalsTears

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Does anyone know, if Curiosity finds a cat on Mars is it programmed to kill it?
Curiousity is the beginning of the terraforming process for Mars. America intends to transform Mars into Kansas so we have a place to go after we've destroyed our own country.

Curiousity is the beginning of the terraforming process for Mars. America intends to transform Mars into Kansas so we have a place to go after we've destroyed our own country. In order to successfully terraform Mars it will be necessary to sterilize the planet first.
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VIDEO of Curiosity’s descent… from the rover cam itself!



Well, that was fast! The MARDI – MARs Descent Imager – was designed to take images as the Curiosity rover dropped down to the surface of Mars. Those thumbnail images have been put together into a stop-motion video that’s just jaw-droppingly cool:





[It helps to set the resolution to HD and make the video as big as possible.]
The video starts when the heat shield drops away – that’s the flying saucer-like thing right at the beginning, which was also seen from space by the MRO spacecraft orbiting Mars. The parachute has already deployed by the time the video starts, so you see the image sway as the rover swings underneath the chute.

The resolution is low, but you can see the features getting bigger as the rover descends. The rockets start firing, though you can’t see that in this video… at least, not until the 45 second mark where suddenly you can see a big puff of dust as the rockets’ plumes hit the surface!

I’ll let you think on that for just a second.

As dust on Mars swirls underneath the hanging rover, you can see one of the rover wheels drop down, and then, finally, Curiosity lands on its new home.

This is where we are folks: it’s not enough that we can send our robotic proxies to other worlds using a Wile. E. Coyote series of maneuvers, but now we can also return pictures as the machines descend and see them within hours of the event itself!*
This stuff just keeps getting cooler. Science! It rocks.


VIDEO of Curiosity’s descent… from the rover cam itself! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
 

WLDB

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I follow all space programs, not just the American program.

China's space activities don't get much coverage here in the West. While China may not be the most advanced program, my money is on them sending the first manned mission to Mars.

A possibility. Im thinking if they get anywhere near possibly doing such a thing it'll get the Americans going again.
 

Blackleaf

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Only three countries have sent rovers to Mars - the USSR, the USA and Britain.

The USSR was the first, way back in 1971.

Britain's Beagle 2 of 2003 actually went to Mars before every American rover bar one.