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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: Perspective on August 06, 2012, 10:19:38 AM
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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)
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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
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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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I really tried to stay up last night, but ended up falling asleep before 1. :(
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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.
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we went to mars again? My pills put me out hard
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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.
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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.
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tnpr had a cool story about the lead engineer behind the crane system a few days ago. I'm glad it all worked out :)
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Looks like better weather there than here.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA15691-first-MAHLI-br2.jpg
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This is pretty cool. http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html
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This is pretty cool. http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html
that's awesome. Looks like Arizona or Utah
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>>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?
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Those solar panels need some Pledge.
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I think we should build a prison there.
I support this
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kind of like a space version of Australia?
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Why would you want to send prisoners to an awesome place like space and Mars?
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Omg we had this exact same conversation at work yesterday.
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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.
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I'm all for lethal execution, but not for people with diminished mental capacity
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you know what i mean, their terminology not mine
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lethal injection
execution
lethal execution
Although I liked the nonlethal execution of the USA basketball team down the stretch. Good win.
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Tomato tamato
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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.
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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.