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Mars Rover Curiosity Lands successfully!! LIVE THREAD
Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) ^ | 5 Aug 2012 | JPL

Posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:03 AM PDT by hattend

Landing at 10:30PM Pacific...yes, this is early so all the aviation, space, astronomy and science pingers can "get 'er done".


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: curiosity; jpl; livemarslanding; mars; marslanding; marslandinglive; marsrover; nasa
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ve got it muted until these jerks get off!


561 posted on 08/05/2012 11:26:51 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (Let's get the hell rid of Zero)
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To: DoughtyOne

There’s the sales pitch for Obama...

Good freakin’ grief!!!!

Glory to Obama in the highest! Sing hosanna’s now...


562 posted on 08/05/2012 11:27:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Vote Obama he's unqualified on so many subjects, citizenship, history, economics, racism, allies...)
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To: af_vet_rr
Well he just mentioned you know who several times. WTF do they have to politicalize everything. Just waiting for the green crap now.
GOODBYE NASA!
563 posted on 08/05/2012 11:27:55 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: DoughtyOne
I think those are valid concerns, and I agree with the Obama Romney consideration. We really do need to get back on track post haste IMO.

When you look at how long it takes to ramp up major programs, it's very critical. Half the years since the last man walked on the moon have probably been wasted due to bureaucrats and Congress and Presidents who can't see the importance of the high ground and getting humans, no make that Americans, out into space.
564 posted on 08/05/2012 11:27:59 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: DoughtyOne

He says Obama is directing that we put men on mars in the mid 2030s.

With what? The termite cut our space efforts to the bone.


565 posted on 08/05/2012 11:28:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Vote Obama he's unqualified on so many subjects, citizenship, history, economics, racism, allies...)
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To: hattend

WE THE PEOPLE OF THE ENDURING UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, do NOT apologize to the current regime for reducing them to the size of nano-particles in our great and ongoing history which is more than they deserve.


566 posted on 08/05/2012 11:29:26 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Thanks, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. Surely the model makes will come through though.


567 posted on 08/05/2012 11:29:26 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: this_ol_patriot
Well he just mentioned you know who several times. WTF do they have to politicalize everything. Just waiting for the green crap now.

I had to salute Presidents Carter and Clinton. Sometimes you have to do vile things it you like your job.
568 posted on 08/05/2012 11:30:57 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: DoughtyOne

When did this program start, I don’t think it was under zero?


569 posted on 08/05/2012 11:30:57 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (Let's get the hell rid of Zero)
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To: af_vet_rr

I agree with every bit of that. HIGH GROUND!

You’d think we invented a new term. I honestly detest the a.h.s that ignore the absolute must it is that we keep it.


570 posted on 08/05/2012 11:30:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Vote Obama he's unqualified on so many subjects, citizenship, history, economics, racism, allies...)
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To: DoughtyOne

Obama this Obama that Obama Obama Obama cant we get thru one freakin minute without hearing that A-hoes ugly a$$ muslim name !!!!!


571 posted on 08/05/2012 11:32:00 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: DoughtyOne

I can’t believe it...through an incredibly complex set of things that had to go JUST RIGHT, that we could not have direct control over, we’ve landed a freakin’ CAR on the planet Mars! Not only that...it’s a car with a brain and loaded for bear with scientific instruments! And we dropped it to the surface on CABLES, from a hovering platform powered by ROCKETS!

Is America a great country or what?


572 posted on 08/05/2012 11:33:07 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: DoughtyOne

Bad day for Obummer and America haters. LoL!


573 posted on 08/05/2012 11:35:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Siri: Gold Baby, Gold!)
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To: Empireoftheatom48
When did this program start, I don’t think it was under zero?

NASA put out the calls for instruments and other gear in 2004, and serious testing was happening by 2008.

Just found a cool picture on Wikipedia showing a comparison, think it was mentioned in another thread.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg
574 posted on 08/05/2012 11:35:28 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: hoagy62
They could have saved themselves a whole bunch of heartache if they just used Flubber.
575 posted on 08/05/2012 11:36:02 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Commie is an Impeached Commie.)
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To: hoagy62
Check out this newish pic posted on the NASA.gov home and media website.

Hmm much bigger HERE

576 posted on 08/05/2012 11:38:30 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: hattend

I could have done without those gratuitous shout-outs to Obama, however. Couldn’t we have the triumphant celebration without dragging him into it?


577 posted on 08/05/2012 11:38:45 PM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: DoughtyOne
I agree with every bit of that. HIGH GROUND!

You’d think we invented a new term. I honestly detest the a.h.s that ignore the absolute must it is that we keep it.


The thing that bothers me most is that China has up and decided that space is incredibly important to them, and Obama and Congress seem unfazed by it. When the Chinese start throwing men, money, and machinery at something big, they need to be watched even closer.

Interesting quote from Teddy Roosevelt that the JPL administrator mentioned:

As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
578 posted on 08/05/2012 11:40:10 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: ottbmare

Addendum: nice that the present speaker is saying that ONLY the United States of America could pull this off, and the rover was made in the USA.


579 posted on 08/05/2012 11:41:34 PM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: hattend

Not sure if this was posted yet but I found it interesting...

Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror

http://youtu.be/ISmWAyQxqqs


580 posted on 08/05/2012 11:44:40 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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