Safe On Mars
 

Looks like we just landed on Mars. Neato. I love this kind of stuff!

Awesome stuff!

Just been watching the live feed and the coverage on CNN. AWESOME!!! What a great accomplishment for Nasa. It was cool watching the scientists and engineers erupted into cheers, hugs and tears as they learned it landed safely and started sending back pictures. What a thrill it must be for them. That fucking rocks. So cool, so cool...

WOO HOO I'm gonna get laid tonight!!!!!

Yep, been watching it...pretty awesome...was watching it on nasa Tv... never thought I'd see this day and I'm glad I was here to witness the first landing.

yeah I watched the stream, pretty fucking excellent.

a peak experience of human intellegence and effort.

and a nice thing to have happen this year and this summer.

Great stuff, though i think they should be focusing more on lunar endeavors.

my first thoughts of the image was... my iPad has a better camera

It has to be fake. We could not even make it to the moon; how could we possibly get to Mars. That would take weeks. Where is Johnny Clips. He will straighten you guys out.

pics or it didnt happen

Yeah, that's what I was watching.

I'm reading a book about the cold war and how Russia launched sputnik. I noticed tonight it said the Russians were helping out, sharing and transmitting data with NASA. Imagine that shit....

If you find that interesting check this out. Some of you may already know about it but ill post it anyway for those that may not have. https://youtube.com/watch?v=R21zHsNvrmM :thumbsup

the oceans of other planets, sniffle

:2 cents::2 cents::thumbsup

I recently read his book Physics of the Future. Can't recommend it enough.

:disgust

I think some of Jupiter's moons would be more interesting.

Jupiter Too
 

One day,

They will visit Jupiter too.

Saturns moons are much more intriguing and if there is any type of life in our solar system besides Earth it would be in one of the underground oceans on Saturns moons.

Neptune and Uranus have similar moons with oceans under the ice as well.

Intelligent aquatic life with no eyes out there somewhere perhaps?

First?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_landing

I was able to watch it live...what amazing awesomeness!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh i have to cash in on some "i will sleep with you when we land on mars"

congrats to winenrs!

A man on Mars by 2030. If we can put a man on the moon, we can put one on Mars. Hopefully before the Chinese do.

I hope they find some cool stuff up there.

Im a huge sceptic but can we please land where those pyramids are so we can see why the fuck they got the same layout as Egypt

Mars is more interesting. The crevices which look like dried river beds could have been carved by ice or liquid water. If it had water, it might have had life.

Since the moon never had an atmosphere and is too small to have had one, it never had liquid water and therefore no life at all.

Mars on the other hand is a good sized planet that is within the "goldilocks" zone (i.e.: Not too close and not too far away from the sun). The chances of Mars having life on it in the past is high, which makes it worth exploring.

Next stop : Europa!

I think the first images were very low resolution so that they could transmit back to earth faster. Bigger images take more time, requiring more resources. I'm guessing that other telemetry data is more important at the moment, but who knows. Still quite exciting though.

It's complicated. Mars is pretty far away. We could go there now but the trip would take so long that they have to worry about astronauts going crazy, or bringing enough food, or dying from radiation exposure, and solar flares.

The bigger problem is getting back. It costs too much to take fuel to Mars for the return trip, so they would have to have a way to make the fuel while there. It would take time to make fuel so it would mean spending a long time on Mars, or sending automated machines to mars ahead of the astronauts that could land on mars, mine for resources, pump water, etc.

I think the only way to do it would be to find a much faster way to get there and back.

I was thinking the same thing. But then again, the average iPad doesn't stream a photo wirelessly millions of miles through space.

Apple should get up on that.

Europa, or Ur anus:Oh crap

reading the title, I was expecting to see pic of a huge condom ;)

Cue water on Mars joke



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504...s2_gcc_big.jpg

Yep, great news. I'm delighted with the way Curiosity was landed. The "sky crane" is a real fantastic thing.

Cool :thumbsup

Great job, I saw the preparation for the landing and it looked really interesting.

Yeah, but 1) the moon is closer, thus easier and less expensive to get to and 2) the moon has this stuff: http://www.explainingthefuture.com/helium3.html Virtually unlimited energy.