Posted on 08/06/2012 4:22:01 AM PDT by Islander7
PASADENA, Calif. — In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet’s past.
Cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory late Sunday after the most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built signaled it had survived a harrowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.
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So, you count all space exploration, as a single-handed self-stress relief exercise?
All those planets, around this star, and other stars, and you don’t want to go play in your own backyard?
I suppose all that money should have gone to that mega-church only you attend?
Humans are curious folks. “Don’t do that!” And, we do, to see why.
But Whitey's on Mars.
Why does the first picture from every Mars landing look like it was shot with a Kodak Brownie Box Camera through a peephole on Verichrome Pan?
If all goes well, in a few days we should get some jaw-dropping scenes.
I have the opposite view, in going to Mars, because there is a mineral record found alreeady (raw hematite), showing that Mars, at one time in its history, was a planet with water in abundance.
How did Mars get to its present environment? Where did the water go? If we life (even in microbial size), how did that life change, with the change of the planet?
It is not an argument of “God, or no god”.
However you slice it, the divine will always be present, as long as there are humans, since it is we, that carry a spark of that divinity within us, when compared to all other life on Earth, or wherever we go in the galaxy.
There is nothing in any of the world's major religions that denies the possibility of life on other planets.
Only those who are invested in the absurd idea that the whole of the universe was created just to provide pretty decorations for Earth's night sky would be upset by the discovery of life on Mars, or anywhere else.
You are correct. I just do not have faith in the mass media and the federal goverment to do the right thing.
The cameras with the high quality optics and sensors are stowed to prevent damage from any landing debris and dust. They are powered up later.
ok, thanks
Well, I suppose it’s nice to see that NASA finally figured out how to either use only one measurement system, or they’ve learned how to successfully convert between them.
It is not an argument of “God, or no god”.
One reason I feel the way I do is because I keep hearing “the search for life” as if it has been the rallying call all along. It just seems to me that they are framing a picture like they always do and they are about to fill in the portrait the way they want and call it the truth.
To find the US flag that Sheila Jackson-Lee is looking for.
If they found it, it would be worth at least $20 Billion, considering she was actually asking about:
“The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: “We just don’t teach enough science.” Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order…”
My statements seem to have cause some controversy. I may not have explained myself very well.
I did not mean that this is the work of Satan. I meant to imply that all the talk about the search for life may be him up to tricks.
NASA has done some astounding things lately with 2 pioneers leaving the solar system and 2 voyagers running for years instead of 3 months. I am a big space fan and a not so big washington dc fan.
I also think there are ulterior motives behind a lot of this stuff and wonder why we dont have a base on the moon. That seems more important in todays world then ever before
“God specifically gave us mother earth!! “
Actually God specifically gave us the Holy Land. Good luck shoehorning the current world population into that tiny, volatile place.
ok
So your point is to insult anyone who has a different view? It’s not a “threat”, just a waste. Even if accidental life were possible, the probability that it occurred on Earth and also the next planet over is zero or close to it.
So why make such an unlikely event, even if you believe life could happen by accident, the “focus” of space exploration? Simple - a desperate attempt to prop up the belief that life on earth began by accident in a protein soup a billion years ago.
It's the snot in Barky's handkerchief. It's borrowed money that will be defaulted upon or stolen through hyperinflation anyway.
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