Mars Rover Curiosity To Land By August

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Fast Gunn's Avatar
Is anyone else planning on watching the Mars Rover Curiosity land on Mars by August 6th?

It has been an expensive endeavor at $2.5 Billion and already $1 Billion over budget, but it

promises to be a thing of beauty when it finally lands next month.

It will have traveled over 350 million miles on the journey and if all goes well, provide footage of the parachute landing.

. . . I can't wait!





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CuteOldGuy's Avatar
To be honest, FastGoon, I'd love to watch that with you. It will be great!
Fast Gunn's Avatar
I understand, there will also be a spelling lesson for the slow learners after the Mars landing.

. . . But there's some proviso about old dogs and new tricks!

I understand, there will also be a spelling lesson for the slow learners after the Mars landing. Originally Posted by Fast Gunn
Question of the day: Is SOF a "slow learner" or a no learner?
Fast Gunn's Avatar
Well, I'm not really sure about that one.

. . . Sometimes the brain just goes dormant on these old geezers!

Well, I'm not really sure about that one.

. . . Sometimes the brain just goes dormant on these old geezers!

Originally Posted by Fast Gunn
I am inclined to say that it is hard to teach an old StupidOldFart new tricks!
Guest123018-4's Avatar
Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee can get them to send it over to the flag the astronauts left there.......
Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee can get them to send it over to the flag the astronauts left there....... Originally Posted by The2Dogs
Astronauts left a flag on Mars?

I must have been out of the country when they made that trip!
CuteOldGuy's Avatar
You have to pay attention, BigTurd. Geez. Seriously.
Fast Gunn's Avatar
The purpose of the mission is to explore the red planet in the hopes of finding microorganisms and possibly evidence of water now or in the past and evidence of life if we get lucky.

The Rover Curiosity has numerous drills, probes, scoops and high definition cameras and different means to analyze soil samples.

. . . There have been over 40 missions attempted to Mars but over half of them have failed, but this baby is almost there now - after hauling her fine ass for 352,000,000 miles!

cptjohnstone's Avatar
didn't they already find small amounts of H2O?
CuteOldGuy's Avatar
I think they have.

http://www.tgdaily.com/space-feature...tected-on-mars

There's no doubt there is life on Mars, we just need to find it.
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  • 07-05-2012, 12:11 AM
didn't they already find small amounts of H2O? Originally Posted by cptjohnstone
Yes, they did. During the Spirit and Opportunity missions.

And Opportunity is still going at it up there nearly nine years after it was launched.
TheDaliLama's Avatar
Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee can get them to send it over to the flag the astronauts left there....... Originally Posted by The2Dogs

Remember when our astronauts left some fake dog poo on the moon just to fuck with the Russians?
Remember when our astronauts left some fake dog poo on the moon just to fuck with the Russians? Originally Posted by TheDaliLama
I thought that was Lama Poo!
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