More Mars talk in this thread needed.
Did you see how it landed? it's friggin crazy.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:11, 5 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

The space crane thing?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:12, Reply)

No, I didn't watch it.

( Kroney, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:13, Reply)

Here's a graphic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:15, Reply)

Why do always look like shit?
Would it really be so hard to chuck a plastic monster truck shell on it?
( Kroney, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:17, Reply)

I don't think it looks shit.
Anyway the reason they don't put anything they don't need on it is because you'd have to carry it to fucking mars.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:20, Reply)

Lack of commitment.

( Kroney, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:23, Reply)

Radio controlled monster trucks are really light.
Whack a laser drill on it and attach a little trailer for it to pull rocks about with. Problem solved.
( Kroney, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:28, Reply)

Or send a Big Trak

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:32, Reply)

Big Traks are fucking shit.
They might have been state of the art in 1986, but I can just imagine the sort of unbearable hipster prick that buys the re-issued ones.
( Kroney, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:39, Reply)

That's really cool.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:20, Reply)

And it fucking worked.
That's the most amazing thing.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:22, Reply)

If it had been me I would have just packed it up in loads of shredded paper and bubble wrap
and then equiped it with a stanley knife.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:23, Reply)

Send it over in a Zorb

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:27, Reply)

Why don't you work for nasa?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:27, Reply)

I bet all the felines on mars are shitting themselves

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:13, Reply)

it on my list for catching up
tell me more. I fucking love mars
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:13, Reply)

I may g and get some malteasers

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:16, Reply)

Laser Armed, plutomium powered space tank.
It's bigger than a mini. It's plutonium battery can last over a decade. It has super high resolution cameras to spot rocks, it'll then shoot a laser at them and measure the emmisions to see what they're made of, if they're interesting enough they'll roll over and drill into them pick up the dust and put it through a bunch of tests in it's body.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:18, Reply)

that is fucking awesome
these things make me wish I was an engineer like me dad wanted me to be.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:20, Reply)

Is there a video of it landing?

(Bazongaloid, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:16, Reply)

Nah, there won't be. There's only two sattelites round mars, and they were positioned for radio reception not video.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:19, Reply)

In the "youtube age" that seems like an oversight

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:21, Reply)

Time to start a conspiracy theory about how they never really landed on Mars.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:25, Reply)

That "desolate crater" it's landed in? Croydon

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:26, Reply)

Yes!

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:45, Reply)

Looks like we have a 60% chance of seeing photos of the landing...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had been commanded to attempt to image Curiosity as it was descending to the surface. Apparently the spacecraft has now sent data back to Earth and the images have been processed. We probably won't see the result until later today; NASA will hold its next press conference at 5pm UK time.
(Booce, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 11:32, Reply)

Nope
only some low res stuff from straight after it landed, but hi res to come soon once it dusts off.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:23, Reply)

It needs to take all it's lens caps off.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:23, Reply)

LOL school boy error taking photos with the lens cap on!
I bet there are some red faces at NASA today!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:25, Reply)

There'll be advisory stickers all over their pictures when they come back from Boots.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:27, Reply)

THere are naked ladies on mars?

(Bazongaloid, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:28, Reply)

out of focus ones

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:29, Reply)

and one's with 3 tits

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:30, Reply)

With red eyes

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:30, Reply)

It's the realistic touches that make amateur porn worthwhile.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:31, Reply)