Landing the Curiosity Rover on Mars next week!!
Piece of piss .. errr honest!! O_0
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 22:23, Reply)
6 billion pound car on a real life space planet!!!
Yeah fingers crossed I guess. Just hope they have anti ape laserzzzzzzzzzzz!!!
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 22:41,
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This will help:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHVA7ASDLw&feature=related
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:02, Reply)
that iis a woman who needs a tbt. :(
shame she bought into what sounds like a cult the way she is talking.
EDIT: pissy since you are a mod can you fix the extra i that ii did in is?
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:42,
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Can you get trid of the extra fuck in fuck this too please?
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Wed 1 Aug 2012, 0:14,
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They do actually have a laser on board powerful enough to burn into rock samples
Landing is at 6:30 or so on
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:08,
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I thought they were going to have problems getting signals back
Until 20 minutes or so after it had landed.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 0:11,
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What, watching the engineers crapping their pants isn't worth watching?
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Wed 1 Aug 2012, 0:15,
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They will, but the buffering on NASA tv's website will compensate for that.
They have it all worked out.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Wed 1 Aug 2012, 0:16,
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On IPlayer now, horizon documentary about it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01llnb2/Horizon_20122013_Mission_to_Mars/ Looks pretty good.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 22:39,
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Oh fuck shit, ipads don't allow iplayer stuff outside the UK.
Cunty apple shit.
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:10, Reply)
linkie no workie for me
and i am too lazy to see if Tor still works.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:49,
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Nice One
Just finished watching. That was a cool doc. Fingers crossed for the bat-shit-crazy landing!
(, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 2:10, Reply)
Impossibly over-complicated and bizarre landing process
Chances of safe landing... remote.
Chances of 2.5 billion dollars worth of hardware splattered in bits over the surface of Mars... very high.
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notoolsovernight you're all luvvly an' 'orrible, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 22:43,
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It's complicated, but not over-complicated
This piece of kit is several orders of magnitude bigger and heavier than any other non-Earth unmanned landing in history.
Pathfinder was the size of a suitcase and landed inside an inflatable ball. Curiosity is the size of a car and weighs several tons.
Putting Neil and Buzz on the Moon was easier than this.
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 22:59,
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But why does it have to hover?
Why do they have to winch it down from the hovering "skycrane"?
The whole thing fails the KISS maxim and instead looks suspiciously like something Gerry Anderson would have built.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 9:34,
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They explain all that in the video
they need to use rockets because the parachute can't slow it down enough. If they then just landed on rockets the thing would get covered in dust which could clog up its innards.
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pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 15:43,
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the landing mechanism is based on those grab claws you see in arcades
this time instead of picking up the prize you want they're trying to put it back down, what could possibly go wrong
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:45, Reply)
Have you seen the name of the rover?
I hope there are fucking cats on mars.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 22:57,
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Here's a size comparison photo..
Curiosity is on the right .. it freaking huge!!!
3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1xrYB9G8_4/TyA82f6DlqI/AAAAAAAAAWY/7RTe6SkIPoE/s1600/nasa-mars-rovers-size-comparison.jpg
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 23:05, Reply)