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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: Perspective on August 06, 2012, 10:19:38 AM

Title: MSL
Post by: Perspective on August 06, 2012, 10:19:38 AM

If you don't get it, I'm sorry, you're just not a geek.

http://xkcd.com/1091/
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/curiosity.png)

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: micah on August 06, 2012, 12:09:54 PM

also, for you C programmers, here are the rules:

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

They'd probably kick me off the project as I am infamous for writing bad recursive functions :D

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Ken Fitlike on August 06, 2012, 02:11:57 PM

I tried to explain the excitement to Mrs Herself as akin to a woman giving birth, "I can see...a wheel!". She was not impressed. :(

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Post by: jkim on August 06, 2012, 02:13:11 PM

I really tried to stay up last night, but ended up falling asleep before 1. :(

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Ken Fitlike on August 06, 2012, 02:20:22 PM

Shame on you. But then I dimly recall my dad waking me up after I fell asleep on the couch to see the first grainy pictures of the 1969 moon landings on a monochrome tv the size of a curiosity rover.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 06, 2012, 02:35:29 PM

we went to mars again? My pills put me out hard

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: charlie on August 06, 2012, 04:51:43 PM

Aww... man. You mean we could watch it live? It might have been difficult but I would have tried to be in front of the TV or computer if I knew that.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Perspective on August 06, 2012, 09:47:49 PM

NASA had a live stream, but it was mostly just watching geeks celebrate in the control room followed by some grainy thumbnails of dusty rover wheels... in other words, completely awesome.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Jake on August 07, 2012, 07:45:13 AM

tnpr had a cool story about the lead engineer behind the crane system a few days ago. I'm glad it all worked out :)

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Ken Fitlike on August 07, 2012, 01:19:11 PM

Looks like better weather there than here.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA15691-first-MAHLI-br2.jpg

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: jkim on August 08, 2012, 03:27:48 PM

This is pretty cool. http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Jake on August 08, 2012, 03:45:05 PM

Quote from: jkim on August 08, 2012, 03:27:48 PM

This is pretty cool. http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

that's awesome. Looks like Arizona or Utah

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Jake on August 08, 2012, 04:04:33 PM

>>it really does look like you could just go outside and be alright.

that's what I thought too!

I wonder what the next step will be? A one way trip for a human being and just keeping them resupplied?

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: charlie on August 08, 2012, 04:57:35 PM

Those solar panels need some Pledge.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 08, 2012, 05:32:53 PM

Quote from: ethic on August 08, 2012, 04:58:43 PM

I think we should build a prison there.

I support this

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Jake on August 08, 2012, 05:52:59 PM

kind of like a space version of Australia?

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Mike on August 08, 2012, 06:27:01 PM

Why would you want to send prisoners to an awesome place like space and Mars?

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: micah on August 08, 2012, 07:02:52 PM

Omg we had this exact same conversation at work yesterday.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 08, 2012, 11:46:59 PM

Really we should just wrap inmates in a space blanket and strap some mortars to their ankles and say we are sending them to space prison.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 09, 2012, 04:27:41 PM

I'm all for lethal execution, but not for people with diminished mental capacity

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 09, 2012, 04:30:26 PM

you know what i mean, their terminology not mine

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: charlie on August 10, 2012, 01:43:53 AM

lethal injection
execution
lethal execution

Although I liked the nonlethal execution of the USA basketball team down the stretch. Good win.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 10, 2012, 03:48:18 AM

Tomato tamato

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Steve on August 17, 2012, 10:49:23 PM

why do they pack them with such low specs? My first guess would be battery power, but i would assume there is some solar assistance built in.

Title: Re: MSL
Post by: Perspective on August 19, 2012, 10:06:41 AM

It's because it takes like 8 years to prepare and approve technology for space travel. They started in 2004 preparing the computer components. There's a good article about it somewhere on the interwebs.