MARS, BITCH.

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:07 PM, roasty said:

All the planets in our solar system are just Earth in different stages of evolution. For instance, Venus is Earth's past, and Mars is Earth's future. /woahdude

From my honestly reduced knowledge in terms of the cosmos, i have always seen it this way, and never believed we are alone in the universe. The existence of life requires, in the first place, an ideal location in relation to a star like the sun, so it is hard for me to believe that no other planet had the chance of growing life forms and going trough a similar evolutional process. I am sure we could be light years ahead in terms of space exploration, if the most powerful nations would not be spending such amount of budget in war, banking and plenty of other futile things

We shall create a United Nations for space exploration, pooling together all our resources towards this cause!

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:37 AM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:30 AM, modey said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 10:20 AM, ruiagnelo said:

2012 -> black and white pictures?!

I came in here to say exactly this. wtf?

 

and in 2012 we have this

 

that picture was sent to earth within minutes after landing using the "hazard avoidance camera". this thing has got 17 cameras installed on it, one of which takes 1600x1200 color pics and films in 720p. we won't see any of that for a couple of days - a week though.

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:35 PM, data said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:37 AM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:30 AM, modey said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 10:20 AM, ruiagnelo said:

2012 -> black and white pictures?!

I came in here to say exactly this. wtf?

 

and in 2012 we have this

 

 

1600x1200 color pics and films in 720p

can't wait for this!

This is awesome beyond words, and can't wait to see what it sends back.

How awesome would this be:

3D Immersive VR

+

Quantum entangled communication (no lag)

+

Gundam-style Mechanoid

= Exploring Mars from the comfort of Earth

yeah, Google Mars better be in development

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:45 PM, roasty said:

How awesome would this be:

 

3D Immersive VR

+

Quantum entangled communication (no lag)

+

Gundam-style Mechanoid

= Exploring Mars from the comfort of Earth

Battling each other in giant robots on the surface of Mars would be the best thing to happen in my lifetime.

  On 8/6/2012 at 3:10 PM, Gary C said:

Battling each other in giant robots on the surface of Mars would be the best thing to happen in my lifetime.

Just like how future wars are played out in :

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:49 PM, patternoverlap said:

yeah, Google Mars better be in development

http://www.google.com/mars/

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:18 PM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:07 PM, roasty said:

All the planets in our solar system are just Earth in different stages of evolution. For instance, Venus is Earth's past, and Mars is Earth's future. /woahdude

 

From my honestly reduced knowledge in terms of the cosmos, i have always seen it this way, and never believed we are alone in the universe. The existence of life requires, in the first place, an ideal location in relation to a star like the sun, so it is hard for me to believe that no other planet had the chance of growing life forms and going trough a similar evolutional process. I am sure we could be light years ahead in terms of space exploration, if the most powerful nations would not be spending such amount of budget in war, banking and plenty of other futile things

Greedy Babies

2012 for the year they finally go public with the existence of ET/Martian life...

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:18 PM, sirch said:

2012 for the year they finally go public with the existence of ET/Martian life...

it'll be some shitty little bacteria that won't impress anyone, though.

"go public" lol

they've been trying for decades

also SPACE

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:44 PM, sirch said:

I need to watch that again. The aliens sucked, but I don't remember being utterly disappointed when I last watched it.

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:42 PM, luke viia said:

"go public" lol

 

they've been trying for decades

 

 

also SPACE

'they' have never said it officially, in an official statement to the world, 'Yo, s'up, we're not alone, dawgs'.

obviously that's what i mean by "go public".

...and it will ignite a war to end all wars, and the human race...

New pictures are dumb though lol. Can't wait for the real ones. Why will we have to wait days/weeks?

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:59 PM, gmanyo said:

New pictures are dumb though lol. Can't wait for the real ones. Why will we have to wait days/weeks?

Making a complete transfer is difficult considering the distances, relative size of targets and that both planets rotate. HD images must be pretty big work in space-data terms.

They presumably have to schedule in time for the rover to transmit them too. I'd imagine it's got a lot of shit to be getting on with.

*done talking about aliens*

this is from the nice links thread and is pretty awesome (thx to flurobox!): http://mars.jpl.nasa...ty/index-2.html

why don't they just run fios to mars wtf

why do we even need pics cant we see it frum here

stupid nasa

  On 8/6/2012 at 2:35 PM, data said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:37 AM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:30 AM, modey said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 10:20 AM, ruiagnelo said:

2012 -> black and white pictures?!

I came in here to say exactly this. wtf?

 

and in 2012 we have this

 

 

that picture was sent to earth within minutes after landing using the "hazard avoidance camera". this thing has got 17 cameras installed on it, one of which takes 1600x1200 color pics and films in 720p. we won't see any of that for a couple of days - a week though.

720P in 2012? We have TVs in Korea and Japan that can do 4K and 8K...

I suppose it's a bandwidth issue, transmitting large amounts of data reliably over 157,000,000 miles...

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:59 PM, gmanyo said:

New pictures are dumb though lol. Can't wait for the real ones. Why will we have to wait days/weeks?

(not real)