FOR SCIENCE! A Thread about Curiosity Rover and Nasa and only about the Curiosity Rover and Nasa

[Jay]

So, Curiosity expedition lands tonight on Mars.

More details.



http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/


Hoping it goes well.

 

[Ravenpoe]

 

[Gusto]

That shit is intense. Hoping it goes well too.

 

[Jay]

Best part of the video when he goes....


... and rockets.

BAM

 

[Ross]

Can't wait for this guy to land and get going... lots of discoveries are within reach if everything is successful with the landing.

A little more complicated than the 2008 landing:

 

[Jay]

http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml

 

[Gusto]

This is cool. I'm finishing up season 4 of Castle waiting for my girl to come over and in the other window, Mars is gradually getting bigger and bigger on the "horizon".

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I'm tempted to stay up and watch this. If only to see if John Carter will try challenging Curiosity to a fight.

Wait, hang on...[DOUBLEPOST=1344224046][/DOUBLEPOST]http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

 

[Ravenpoe]

So, Curiosity expedition lands tonight on Mars.

More details.



http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/


Hoping it goes well.

This is the kind of crazy shit that makes me proud to be human.

Fuck yeah, science!

 

[Dave]

I'm watching and waiting instead of sleeping and dreaming. Excited!

 

[DarkAudit]

There is a NASA TV app for OSX devices. Just grabbed it for iPad.

 

[Dave]

TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED!!![DOUBLEPOST=1344231537][/DOUBLEPOST]I just emailed my brother-in-law and his wife. They are both scientists at JPL. I gave them a well done and kudos.

 

[Jay]

TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED!!![DOUBLEPOST=1344231537][/DOUBLEPOST]I just emailed my brother-in-law and his wife. They are both scientists at JPL. I gave them a well done and kudos.

What an awesome feat.

Awesome.

So proud.

 

[ZenMonkey]

We watched the NASA live feed. Unbelievable. Human beings just parked a car on Mars. Faith in humanity +200.

 

[DarkAudit]

Lartist said...

 

[Gusto]

Made my girl and I take a time out from watching Aliens to watch the landing. I was thoroughly excited, she was just happy that I was excited.

 

[DarkAudit]

Um, guys...

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Yaaaay!

 

[Frank]

We watched the NASA live feed. Unbelievable. Human beings just parked a car on Mars. Faith in humanity +200.

Parked a car with a rocket crane. NASA is unbelievably awesome sometimes.

 

[Silent Bob]

What an awesome feat.

Awesome.

So proud.

I'm really proud of this achievement too. The engineering that went into this project is just mind-boggling. THIS is what billions of dollars should be spent on; not stupid political wars.[DOUBLEPOST=1344252337][/DOUBLEPOST]

Parked a car with a rocket crane. NASA is unbelievably awesome sometimes.

The rocket crane is just wow...

Really, it's a moment of collective genius to come up with something like that.

 

[Jay]

 

[strawman]

I can land a one ton vehicle on mars using a rocket crane, but I can't land a high five.

I AM AN ENGINEER.

 

[Jay]

I can land a one ton vehicle on mars using a rocket crane, but I can't land a high five.

 

[Hylian]

Woo Hoo!

For the first time in what feels like ages I can actually feel some pride in being human and I have some hope for our future.

 

[GasBandit]

Did they remember to put a spray bottle and wiper on a servo arm, so it can go clean off Spirit and Opportunity's solar cells?

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meters!

 

[Jay]

http://twitpic.com/ag8j1w

Eye in the Sky captures decent in parachute.


Cool beans.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

So whatever happened to the manned mission to Mars?

 

[GasBandit]

So whatever happened to the manned mission to Mars?

Earthlings collectively stopped giving a shit. Especially Americans. Sad.

 

[evilmike]

So whatever happened to the manned mission to Mars?

It was replaced with the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter ride which was itself replaced by Stitch's Great Escape.

 

[blotsfan]

I mean, this mission was incredibly hard for them to do and they weren't sure if it was going to work. Wouldn't that mean we're still far from being able to risk peoples' lives? Especially since (if im not mistaken) we'ver never gotten anything back from mars before.

 

[Dave]

Did any of you listen to the pre-landing talks? One of the speakers talked about a MANNED Mars mission as early as 2022, with the return vehicle already on Mars converting the atmosphere into oxygen/methane propellant for fuel. Interesting stuff!

 

[tegid]

I mean, this mission was incredibly hard for them to do and they weren't sure if it was going to work. Wouldn't that mean we're still far from being able to risk peoples' lives? Especially since (if im not mistaken) we'ver never gotten anything back from mars before.

I'd say half the difficulty of these things is that they are remote controlled...

 

[Frank]

On a 14 minute delay.

 

[strawman]

I mean, this mission was incredibly hard for them to do and they weren't sure if it was going to work. Wouldn't that mean we're still far from being able to risk peoples' lives? Especially since (if im not mistaken) we'ver never gotten anything back from mars before.

We can now send random 1 ton objects to a specific spot on mars with enough assurance and accuracy/precision that we could essentially send another international space station in pieces and build a habitat on the surface.

The harder problem is no longer food and oxygen - getting those things (or the equipment to generate them, at least in the case of oxygen since there's already an atmosphere) over there in one ton modules is solved.

That's not to say we have one foot over there already - we have a long way to go, but already we can drop ship anything, communicate with the dark side of the planet via satellite, image the entire planet periodically, and we've discovered enough about the planet to know that the basic materials of life and fuel are present.

A manned mission to mars is no longer a dream - it's a decision.