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Offline TAnimaL

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Wheels down on Mars!
« on: August 06, 2012, 03:18:19 pm »
Maybe it's summer, and everyone here is vacationing, but I was a little surprised no else has commented on this amazing, real-space news.

Eight months in space, over half a billion kilometers, ending with the "7 Minutes of Terror" ride, and using a rocket-powered "skycrane" contraption, we landed a 2000 pound nuclear fueled goddam truck on Mars. On Time. On target. Oh, and on automatic, since it's 14 light minutes away, but still managing to capture a picture of the lander in mid-air using another orbitting automaton. Science rocks!

Lots of stuff out there but I liked this for brevity and simplicity.
http://www.universetoday.com/96629/long-live-american-curiosity-now-we-start-exploring-mars/
 
and I've tottally used this excuse  today...

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Re: Wheels down on Mars!
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2012, 03:35:01 pm »
Closely related story:

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Stop the band. The video was gone, replaced with an alien message: “This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.” That is to say, a NASA-made public domain video posted on NASA’s official YouTube channel, documenting the landing of a $2.5 billion Mars rover mission paid for with public taxpayer money, was blocked by YouTube because of a copyright claim by a private news service.


The NASA YouTube channel had the footage removed due to a claim it violated a private News agencies copyright. 
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Re: Wheels down on Mars!
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2012, 05:32:53 pm »
Its time to start shotin copyright lawyers.
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Re: Wheels down on Mars!
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2012, 04:24:29 am »
Ahhh Nick, why stop with the copyright lawyers? 

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Re: Wheels down on Mars!
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2012, 07:50:14 am »
Good lord, damn Lawyers. We need to sic ole Ji'nn on them.

Seriously though. We could see the mars landing, from 155,000,000 miles away, with only a 14 minutes  delay, and yet NBC can't get an event 3,500 miles away, without a 6 hour Delay.

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Re: Wheels down on Mars!
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2012, 11:56:36 am »
not to sidetrack the thread I started, but NBC delaying the Olympic coverage is a simply business decision - to capture the most eyeballs during "prime time". To me, both the (temporary) pulling of the NASA Youtube by Scripps and NBC's apporach to the Olympics is corporations trying to maximize revenue, and neither corporation are acting very smartly.

In regards to Curiousity, not only did the MRO capture an image of it under it's parachute, you can see the heat shield still dropping in free-fall! Too cool.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/msl-descent.php
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