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Posted: Aug 8, 2012 - 2:27pm
jagdriver wrote: Why Designing a Mars Rover Like Curiosity Just Got a Lot Easier This is a standard-issue PR department piece of fluff from Siemens. Surprised to see it in Wired. Usually find this sort of thing in trade magazines.

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Posted: Aug 8, 2012 - 12:05pm
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Posted: Aug 8, 2012 - 11:28am
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Posted: Aug 8, 2012 - 11:21am

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Posted: Aug 8, 2012 - 11:18am
Manbird wrote: Latest HiRes image from Curiosity:

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Posted: Aug 8, 2012 - 9:54am
Latest HiRes image from Curiosity:

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Posted: Aug 7, 2012 - 8:04pm

ScottN wrote:

I'll stay away from the critical view(s) expressed below, and simply say "that Curiosity (the Mars landing machine) is an incredible accomplishment for mankind". It matters not to me which country launched the vehicle, but that it is, in fact, there and properly functioning, (so far). Simply wonderful

Somewhat ironically, I suppose, is that we saw images of the MLS landing on Mars as sent by a previously launched man-made satellite. Cool {#Cheers}

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We reach out for answers about Big Questions with our perhaps limited but ingenious methods, and we get answers (referring to other planetary vehicles, satellites and devices launched 'til now). The whole idea of this exploration is for me incredible and humbling. NASA may be flawed, but this is Big News. Curiosity is designed to last for years, hopefully decades (let it be so), and was about eight years in the making. Kudos to NASA and JPL!

Yeah, it's an amazing achievement. I have no problem with them patting themselves on the back. I have a lot of friends abroad, and when I was watching that press conference I just sort of heard it from an outsiders point of view and it seemed insulting. It made me ashamed and gave me pause. I guess I think too much.

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Posted: Aug 7, 2012 - 7:55pm

ScottN wrote:

Thank you for this comment. {#Arrowu}

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Posted: Aug 7, 2012 - 4:05pm
Why Designing a Mars Rover Like Curiosity Just Got a Lot Easier

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Posted: Aug 7, 2012 - 4:51am

ScottN wrote:

Amen. Take the political fingerpointing and so on to the political threads. This mission is boffo!

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Posted: Aug 7, 2012 - 1:18am

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 8:52pm

GeneP59 wrote:

I saw young people celebrating something no other country had the intelligence and creativity to attain, something that has never been done before. Guess you never watched an Apollo launch or the first shuttle launch and the old guy's and how they celebrated with real cigars.

As for those other countries that took part in this had nothing to do with the landing apparatus. They are responsible for the scientific apparatus strapped to the chassie. This type landing is something that has never been attempted before.

Remember why all those people come to this country, cause our greatness comes from our diversity in thinking where other countries stagnate their creativity. Just ask the Japanese.

An last you should ask the European nations and Russia about all their failed missions and all their crash site on the red planet. Oh, and what other nation has ever landed a human on another planet?

0, none, nada.

Nothing you've writ here excuses vanity and arrogance. Sorry.

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 7:15pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Also in the back of my mind: they're trying to keep their jobs You mean the all the jobs that Obama killed and keeps cutting the funding from NASA. And the idiot he put in charge in the administration.

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 7:13pm

Umberdog wrote:

I guess you didn't watch the NASA people rubbing the world's nose in it. At least 4 other undisclosed countries took part in America's greatness. I mean, WTF? My point is... my pride for my country has been slipping away for some time and this bit of arrogance was a kind of last straw. I don't expect a people so full of themselves to have any clues about what I'm feeling. This nation is in serious decay. Now I know why Lao Tzu left his city and walked off into the wilderness. It's a logical reaction of one who both thinks and feels and cannot take it anymore.

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 7:12pm
oldslabsides wrote: Perhaps now that the space shuttle is history the author of the thread could be persuaded to revise the thread title. Perhaps. Drones in space!

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 10:02am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

They had to be extremely confident going in. I understand all that could have gone wrong... but to promote the event so heavily, with "7 MINUTES OF TERROR!!" etc etc and really work at getting the largest audience possible... wouldn't most people, if they thought it was so risky, do it all on the QT and then when it works, go "Hey! Look what we did!"

Not to mention the couple billion dollars worth of labor, hardware & various other resources that went into the effort. I'm pretty sure they were well ahead of 50/50 on launch day.

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 10:00am
Manbird wrote: Holy shit. They did it. FAN-tastic!

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 8:05am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Also in the back of my mind: they're trying to keep their jobs I thought that too.

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 7:33am
bokey wrote: Slick production on the broadcast too.Kind of like a reality TV show. Also in the back of my mind: they're trying to keep their jobs

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Posted: Aug 6, 2012 - 7:30am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

They had to be extremely confident going in. I understand all that could have gone wrong. . . but to promote the event so heavily, with "7 MINUTES OF TERROR! ! " etc etc and really work at getting the largest audience possible. . . wouldn't most people, if they thought it was so risky, do it all on the QT and then when it works, go "Hey! Look what we did! "

Slick production on the broadcast too. Kind of like a reality TV show.

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