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Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and Discovery
www.physorg.com ^ | 12-30-2008 | Provided by NASA

Posted on 12/31/2008 10:19:34 AM PST by Red Badger

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How many is that in Dog Years?...............

WHo has the Space Ping List nowadays?...........

1 posted on 12/31/2008 10:19:35 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

We can still do some things right. Bravo Rover and NASA.


2 posted on 12/31/2008 10:21:02 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Red Badger
If they just could have found that flag the astronauts left there.
3 posted on 12/31/2008 10:22:25 AM PST by bmwcyle (I have no President as of Jan 20th 2009. No Congress either.)
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To: Red Badger

Cool!

And in a bit of shameless bragging, I’ll mention that I wrote (along with a few others) the software used to design the imagers on these awesome rovers....


4 posted on 12/31/2008 10:26:30 AM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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5 year vehicle..no need for gas..wished the NASA people built some GMC vehicles.


5 posted on 12/31/2008 10:26:33 AM PST by max americana
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To: Red Badger

When I pay my taxes I like to pretend it goes to cool stuff like this.


6 posted on 12/31/2008 10:26:54 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Some of it did.......Some of it went to pay for studies of cattle burps and some of it goes to pay Nancy Pelosi’s hair dresser...........


7 posted on 12/31/2008 10:28:30 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks RB, may you over indulge tonight and wake up with Helen Thomas.


8 posted on 12/31/2008 10:29:55 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Yossarian

BRAVO!!!!!

9 posted on 12/31/2008 10:30:09 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Go to bed at two with a ten and wake up at ten with a -99999999999999?............


10 posted on 12/31/2008 10:31:33 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Yossarian

Outstanding! Congratulations on a job well done.
It is an honor to share this same discussion board and thread.


11 posted on 12/31/2008 10:31:45 AM PST by rod1
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To: bmwcyle
Nah, that was all faked on a soundstage you know.

Then they had to go and hunt down the astronauts when the return drone crashed....

12 posted on 12/31/2008 10:33:10 AM PST by El Sordo
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5 year vehicle..no need for gas..wished the NASA people built some GMC vehicles.

They would cost $54 Billion.....................

13 posted on 12/31/2008 10:33:10 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Yossarian
And in a bit of shameless bragging, I’ll mention that I wrote (along with a few others) the software used to design the imagers on these awesome rovers...

From one geek to another, well done!


14 posted on 12/31/2008 10:34:05 AM PST by TonyStark
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To: Red Badger

Surely the nickname for these two diehards is Energizer Bunnies?


15 posted on 12/31/2008 10:40:38 AM PST by Kevmo ( It's all over for this Country as a Constitutional Republic. ~Leo Donofrio, 12/14/08)
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Probably so, but it’s Trademarked. Can’t put it in “official” documents...............


16 posted on 12/31/2008 10:42:01 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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I watched this on Nova last night. I don’t understand what the big deal is? I’m not discrediting the work that these people have done, but what will proof of life on mars 4 billion years ago do for anyone on earth?


17 posted on 12/31/2008 10:46:33 AM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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Well, thanks...

...but to be honest it's all just part of a massive project to use my entire career as a shot at scoring Dr. Amy Mainzer's phone number.

18 posted on 12/31/2008 10:46:51 AM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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Could you imagine how many more of these robot missions we could have had if we had not poured our money down the International Space Station rathole? Sorry if I have offended some folks.

Thanks for the software to run these rovers. I wish I worked on cool stuff like this.


19 posted on 12/31/2008 10:47:15 AM PST by exhaustguy
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...but what will proof of life on mars 4 billion years ago do for anyone on earth?

It would give the Liberal Secularists orgasms..........

20 posted on 12/31/2008 10:48:22 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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