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Re: Mars Rover "Curiosity" Landing Will Be Broadcast LIVE This Sunday 8/5
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Originally Posted by Gonso
Well do you really need another news story about a shooting, or what some Kardashian sister ate for breakfast this morning? If anything this is a break from the nonsense crap the news makes headlines out of.
Here we've got one of the few government agencies with actual talent, working with 0.5% percent of the US budget, in a country whose students continue to fall further and further behind in the sciences. For all of the things we're screwing up at least we can point to things like this as a lasting, constructive accomplishment that goes beyond the day-to-day trifling things that time will quickly forget.
Fair enough, I guess I'm just surprised they're doing this (the live show and all that) for a pretty standard sort of deal. Hope it goes well LDO
Re: Mars Rover "Curiosity" Landing Will Be Broadcast LIVE This Sunday 8/5
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Originally Posted by Gonso
Well do you really need another news story about a shooting, or what some Kardashian sister ate for breakfast this morning? If anything this is a break from the nonsense crap the news makes headlines out of.
Here we've got one of the few government agencies with actual talent, working with 0.5% percent of the US budget, in a country whose students continue to fall further and further behind in the sciences. For all of the things we're screwing up at least we can point to things like this as a lasting, constructive accomplishment that goes beyond the day-to-day trifling things that time will quickly forget.
Amen, Gonso. Amen.
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Originally Posted by Richard Tanner
Fair enough, I guess I'm just surprised they're doing this (the live show and all that) for a pretty standard sort of deal. Hope it goes well LDO
Lowering a 2000 lb. vehicle on Mars, with a freaking rocket crane, isn't a "standard sort of deal". wtf.
Re: Mars Rover "Curiosity" Landing Will Be Broadcast LIVE This Sunday 8/5
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
Lowering a 2000 lb. vehicle on Mars, with a freaking rocket crane, isn't a "standard sort of deal". wtf.
It's NASA, you need to adjust your scale.
Mars landers aren't new. Unique landing devices aren't new.
This is a cool experiment in new technology but it's not like they think they found life on mars and we're all on the edge of our seats waiting to validate it.
Re: Mars Rover "Curiosity" Landing Will Be Broadcast LIVE This Sunday 8/5
For those who insist on thinking that NASA is landing $2.5B on Mars:
Wrong!
The value of the metal, plastic, glass, etc. that lands on mars is not even close to that number. The vast majority of the money went into wages for the people who made the rocket and the rover, not the actual materials.
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