MARS, BITCH.

great job NASA, billions of dollars to touch down on a lifeless rock. we should all explore inner space instead and become enlightened and have world peace, together forever.

  On 8/6/2012 at 4:33 PM, lumpenprol said:

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

I don't know. Finding that there is some form of life on TWO planets in the SAME system makes the odds of life in the universe that much higher.

And a reminder, NASA's budget ~$20 billion, the London Olympics ~$15 billion. And this whole mission ~17% of the London Olympics budget. It's all about priorities.

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:54 AM, roasty said:

There's Spirit and Opportunity; Spirit is the one that got stuck in the dirt, Opportunity is still knocking about though

 

Are there any other rovers from non-US countries?

what about the pathfinder

Didn't you see James Bond push the Queen out of a plane? Much more impressive than firing some K'nex into space.

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:27 PM, chimera slot mom said:

great job NASA, billions of dollars to touch down on a lifeless rock. we should all explore inner space instead and become enlightened and have world peace, together forever.

It's hard to know whether it will be useful or not, but most big discoveries that actually do impact life come from exploring, and you're not necessarily going to be able to tell beforehand.

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:37 PM, Gary C said:

Didn't you see James Bond push the Queen out of a plane? Much more impressive than firing some K'nex into space.

lol

  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?

:) so they can edit them? lol

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:04 PM, luke viia said:

 

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  On 8/6/2012 at 4:53 PM, sirch said:

'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...

 

1. there is no 'they.'

2. the people working on space exploration are scientists, they will not say they have found anything until there is sufficient evidence.

 

 

*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

thanks for that! *jots it down*

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:44 PM, gmanyo said:

 

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:37 PM, Gary C said:

Didn't you see James Bond push the Queen out of a plane? Much more impressive than firing some K'nex into space.

lol

lol

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:27 PM, chimera slot mom said:

great job NASA, billions of dollars to touch down on a lifeless rock. we should all explore inner space instead and become enlightened and have world peace, together forever.

please tell me you're joking, chimera. i like you very much, and i know you are aware of the fact that enlightenment and peace cannot be bought.

All these rover missions and not one named "Red Rover" yet. What's up with that?

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:54 PM, luke viia said:

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:27 PM, chimera slot mom said:

great job NASA, billions of dollars to touch down on a lifeless rock. we should all explore inner space instead and become enlightened and have world peace, together forever.

 

please tell me you're joking, chimera. i like you very much, and i know you are aware of the fact that enlightenment and peace cannot be bought.

Seriously, and someone already pointed out that costly explorations of desolate deserts in a futile quest for signs of life is ongoing here on Earth: Afghanistan.

  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?

 

i don't know the equipments characteristics and limits, and neither the weather conditions at the time of the photo, so i am speaking in ignorance. i just thought it is weird that in the 70's we had this

 

 

and in 2012 we have this

 

Not to nitpic, as it's been addressed already, but the color pic is from Mars Pathfinder, so it's late 90s. This is a better example of a Viking pic:

*complains about black and white photos.*

*collects unemployment benefit money*

  On 8/6/2012 at 6:02 PM, joshuatx said:

 

no wait, this is the first instagram photo from the Curiosity rover, my mistake

I never imagined to come across so much complaining in regards to space exploration on an idm forum.

who's complaining?

  On 8/6/2012 at 6:44 PM, placidburp said:

http://mitchmurder.b....com/album/mars

^ best post yet

  On 8/6/2012 at 5:27 PM, chimera slot mom said:

great job NASA, billions of dollars to touch down on a lifeless rock. we should all explore inner space instead and become enlightened and have world peace, together forever.

I'm with you. I's like a child playing with a brand new toy while his neighbor is chasing rats for fun and food.

Inner space.

View from MRO during the parachute phase:

In a few years:

Excited to see what we find with this.

why can't they ever manage to land something in the middle of one of the Martian Cities? why always in the middle of nowhere... !?

  On 8/6/2012 at 7:30 PM, compson said:

In a few years:

 

 

 

Excited to see what we find with this.

space make me horny rong time.