OT : NASA lands rover on Mars...

MrBlonde · 08-07-2012, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Blauweisser

I'm a great admirer of the USA, and although a number of other nations contributed, this really is a triumph of US science and technology.

Agreed. The USA is a very frustrating country. Full of ignorant and arrogant people and yet also the place where the very brightest and best can be found.

Teaching chastity at high schools as the solution to STIs and yet the only nation that can put Curiosity on Mars. Hard to fathom the same culture holds both realities.

amk2912 · 08-07-2012, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ReyT

20min delay with a movement speed of 4cm/s ...

That's like my old Datsun 120Y!

Zuzu · 08-07-2012, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by amk2912

That's like my old Datsun 120Y!

Ha.. Showing our age mate.. My sister had a lime green with white roof..lol

Slowest car ever, period, of the mark in auto...

ReyT · 08-07-2012, 06:13 AM

had to google the damn thing and is 20 years older then me

TimMc · 08-07-2012, 06:46 AM

One of my exes had an automatic yellow 120Y coupe. Very sporty! I could take off with full throttle, from standstill, on full lock, in the gravel, and still not get a hint of wheel-spin.

Back to Curiosity. Absolutely amazing achievement!

BBK · 08-07-2012, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBlonde

I think you're underestimating the magnitude of gap between the challenge of landing on the Moon and Mars.

Really?

Mars should be easier, it's bigger

But seriously, it's like saying that cavemen could find Australia, yet they only just worked out how to get to Antarctica in 2012?

gazz · 08-07-2012, 05:56 PM

How did we segue from the technological marvel of a Mars landing to the Datsun 120Y?

pavo335 · 08-07-2012, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BBK

Really?

Mars should be easier, it's bigger

But seriously, it's like saying that cavemen could find Australia, yet they only just worked out how to get to Antarctica in 2012?

i think someone missed a few days from skool

Blauweisser · 08-07-2012, 06:25 PM

I loved the bit in the news where the Higgs-boson scientists are having a hissy fit because the Mars thing has blown them off the nerds-and-geeks front page. Aside from the fact that a newspaper editor has the attention span of a gnat (so what did they expect), the poor dears are confusing science and technology. Higgs-boson is science, Mars exploration is technology. For that matter, building the CERN super-collider is technology (as is making a BMW meth system that works); and making sense out of any data that Curiosity sends back is science.

BBK · 08-07-2012, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by pavo335

i think someone missed a few days from skool

I don't get it... it was a hypothetical. Mars is pretty much the same as the Moon, only it's further away. Yet they put humans there with pretty basic technology.

MrBlonde · 08-07-2012, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BBK

I don't get it... it was a hypothetical. Mars is pretty much the same as the Moon, only it's further away. Yet they put humans there with pretty basic technology.

There's a lot in those four words.

pavo335 · 08-07-2012, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by BBK

I don't get it... it was a hypothetical. Mars is pretty much the same as the Moon, only it's further away. Yet they put humans there with pretty basic technology.

During the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907, parties led by Edgeworth David became the first to climb Mount Erebus and to reach the South Magnetic Pole

1907 not 2012, I think this was a year 5 school project, but even that was a long time ago.

BBK · 08-07-2012, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by pavo335

During the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907, parties led by Edgeworth David became the first to climb Mount Erebus and to reach the South Magnetic Pole

1907 not 2012, I think this was a year 5 school project, but even that was a long time ago.

Ummm... I guess it went right over your head?

BBK · 08-07-2012, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBlonde

There's a lot in those four words.

Ok, but I am still struggling to see how they could do what they did with such 'primitive' technology. Maybe that's why I'm not a rocket scientist... I do however LOVE watching Stephen Hawking on Discovery

pavo335 · 08-07-2012, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BBK

Ummm... I guess it went right over your head?

oldman · 08-08-2012, 05:45 PM

Anyone fancy a trip? It's one way unfortunately. Today's reality TV is nothing compared to this.

http://mars-one.com/en/ (Watch the video)

Some people think it's a hoax...

amk2912 · 08-08-2012, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by oldman

Anyone fancy a trip? It's one way unfortunately. Today's reality TV is nothing compared to this.

http://mars-one.com/en/ (Watch the video)

Some people think it's a hoax...

Why don't they just export some convicts there to start a new colony...... hang on.... didn't that happen 200 years ago?

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Blauweisser Private First Class 13 Rep 136 Posts Drives: 125i M-Sport Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Oz iTrader: (0)	I loved the bit in the news where the Higgs-boson scientists are having a hissy fit because the Mars thing has blown them off the nerds-and-geeks front page. Aside from the fact that a newspaper editor has the attention span of a gnat (so what did they expect), the poor dears are confusing science and technology. Higgs-boson is science, Mars exploration is technology. For that matter, building the CERN super-collider is technology (as is making a BMW meth system that works); and making sense out of any data that Curiosity sends back is science.
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