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Anyone else excited about Mars Curiosity landing on Aug 6th?
I've booked the day off work.
According to my fingers, Mars Curiosity is due to land on Mars at 06:31 am on Aug 6th UK time. (I'll double check nearer the time.) According to NASA it is 10:31pm PDT (Los Angeles). Anyway, NASA will have all sorts of feeds showing real time data so web users will know as it happens. I remember the 1997 when Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars. There was a basic web site showing real live data from Mars with comments by the JPL engineers to explain what it meant in real time. CNN was on in the background and it took them over 15 minutes to confirm that the craft had landed OK. 15 years later it should be a fantastic event to track on the internet. |
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Half six in the morning...and you've booked the whole day off work???
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to answer your question.......................me!
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Yep - hope the landing goes well, fingers crossed.
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OK, here's the theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw
That never before used and over-complex flying crane landing system looks to be an invitation to disaster and hence another victory for the Great Galactic Ghoul. ![]() That said, I hope it works out fine because there's plenty of good science to be done: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...4290-anno.html |
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Half six in the morning...and you've booked the whole day off work???
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Long as it doesn't clash the womens shot-put on telly I might give it a look.
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Yep - hope the landing goes well, fingers crossed.
What a miserable reply I got saying it was a waste of money... I replied that we are spending 4x that for a three week sports' festival called the Olympics. |
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What a miserable reply I got saying it was a waste of money...
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To be honest - i' surprised the thread has made it to 10 posts without somebody coming on here to say exactly that.
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15 years later it should be a fantastic event to track on the internet.
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Its ok - i'm sure somebody else will be along soon to ask why the money hasnt been used to solve world hunger and cure cancer......
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While they are using their (expensive, developing world exploiting) iPad or iMacs no doubt.
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To be honest - i' surprised the thread has made it to 10 posts without somebody coming on here to say exactly that.
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Pure science like that is never a waste of money since it expands both human knowledge and imagination. It also help to sustain an innovative high tech space science industry that is worth $43 billion to the US economy (source = OECD http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/9...Type=text/html).
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Your question has been answered, but I'd like to say that I, too, are excited by this. Although I hope all goes well, it is made more exciting by the large number of things that could go wrong. Like an action movie.
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I totally agree.
I don't know the details but apparently none of modern electronics would be possible without Quantum Mechanics theory. When the US military developed APARNET to be resilient to a massive Soviet nuclear attack they had no idea that it would develop to become the internet. Humankind's development has advanced through adventure and curiosity in fortuitous ways - rarely by design or intent. |
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I'll be up all the previous night and following through the day.
Immodium might help with that...
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Your question has been answered, but I'd like to say that I, too, are excited by this. Although I hope all goes well, it is made more exciting by the large number of things that could go wrong. Like an action movie.
Also, I feel more confident that when Beagle 2 had the mad West Country professor in charge... |
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Agree. I just hope NASA have double checked to make sure that they are all using imperial or metric measurements.
Also, I feel more confident that when Beagle 2 had the mad West Country professor in charge...
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What if it gets held up in traffic, you'll have wasted a day off.
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I'll be more excited when there's an actual manned mission to Mars.
I can just imagine, when that happens, it will be made into a really cheesy event, with the reporting on it being accompanied by frequent playing of David Bowie, Life on Mars. |
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