Mars Rover Landing
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Voorhees27
Super Freak
We can just set up the next Guantanamo Bay there instead
Actually I think you may be on to something here. Ship off each hard criminal to mars sans oxygen.
No, I'm off all together. I think I'll go watch it on my tv in my bedroom. It's bed time for Bonzo!
devilof76
Super Freak
Keep us apprised, thanks.
Actually I think you may be on to something here. Ship off each hard criminal to mars sans oxygen.
Quick, get Harper on the line... I'll draft up my proposal
No, I'm off all together. I think I'll go watch it on my tv in my bedroom. It's bed time for Bonzo!
Night Weenie, I hope you have lovely dreams of Jeremy Renner
So why is this thing special? We've had rovers on Mars before
thenammagazine
Super Freak
Actually I think you may be on to something here. Ship off each hard criminal to mars sans oxygen.
A bullet is .38 cents. Let them die by ironic means. Or hell, buy a captive bolt pistol from a local slaughterhouse and slam a metal slug into their head. Done and done on the cheap.
DFanatic
Super Freak
They killed the shuttle program. Didn't that stimulate the economy?
Nope.
That's because the budget for Nasa was so low as it was already, cutting that program didn't even make a dent in the economy. If anything, they should increase their budget.
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This guy is so f___ ignorant (what else is new, right? I know!). If people can't see why space exploration is important for human kind IN THIS DAY AND AGE then please, just remove yourself from the gene pool.
Here educate yourself.
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Nine reasons why Space Exploration is Important
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plasmid303
Super Freak
It's the largest and most sophisticated of any rover to date. Because of its size (equal to a mid-sized car), a different and very elaborate method of delivery and descent had to be developed.
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Curiosity Rover on the right.
You have my vote!
thenammagazine
Super Freak
NASA should be stripped of their budget and the funds allocated to more deserving programs. Superfluous spending of funds we don't have isn't doing anything toward bettering the planet, economy, let alone the human race, but you'd know that if you took your head out of the clouds and looked around you. ATM, unemployment isn't shrinking and the deficit is growing at an alarming rate. The rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer and every day it seems we're one step closer to total anarchy. I'm all for space exploration when we're not borrowing money to fund it. Perhaps you should educate yourself on basic economics before typing more stupidity.
DFanatic
Super Freak
Nothing quite like this one. First of all this thing is huge and the landing procedure was so intricate, its surprising they managed to land safely. There was just so much that could have gone wrong!
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Here is a break down of the mission and why it's important:
The MSL mission has four scientific goals:
Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life
Study the climate of Mars
Study the geology of Mars
Plan for a human mission to Mars
To contribute to these goals, MSL has six main scientific objectives:
Determine the mineralogical composition of the Martian surface and near-surface geological materials.
Attempt to detect chemical building blocks of life (biosignatures).
Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils.
Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) Martian atmospheric evolution processes.
Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide.
Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic radiation, solar proton events and secondary neutrons.
As part of its exploration, it is measuring the radiation exposure in the interior of the spacecraft as it travels to Mars, important data for a future manned mission.
at least it didn't land upside down
plasmid303
Super Freak
Yeah, the argument for spending 3 billion on this would've been much harder to defend if it had crashed and/or was rendered useless.
at least it didn't land upside down
Yeah, the argument for spending 3 billion on this would've been much harder to defend if it had crashed and burned.
Hahaha exactly, that would have been a tricky one to justify
nam hates the space people
devilof76
Super Freak
I heard NASA had to hold a bake sale to finance this.
thenammagazine
Super Freak
I don't hate it, I just think what a shame it is that we're throwing cash away for the space program ATM, and what all those brilliant minds could accomplish if focused on things like free energy, emission reduction, curing disease, advancements in bionics to help amputees, etc. Then when things turn around, which inevitably they would given the collective IQ, they can go right back to stargazing.
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