Curiosity landing

[The Professa]

Anyone watch it?
Idk how but I fell asleep and missed it :( so I'll be watching the vids online.

[sTr]

! wanted to see it as well, !'m gonna check it out when ! escape work.

[juggalogigolo]

i was gonna stay up and watch it but i was tired as fuck and fell asleep

[Toxic Love]

There's a special on tonight for it. I want to say Discovery or Sci channel?

[The Professa]

Sweet. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the heads up :)

[Toxic Love]

No prob! I also think its at 8 or 9pm... at least ET.

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

If its any consolation, even NASA doesn't watch it live. I believe there's up to a 10 minute delay in video data transmission.

[The Professa]

^ that was cute :3

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

It's true! That's why they had to have an automated landing device, because they wouldn't be able to control it in real time.

[The Professa]

Hehehe, I know it's true! I meant it was cute cause I was legitimately bummed out that I'd fallen asleep and missed it while it was happening. When you added that not even NASA got to see anything "live" because of the delay it made me chuckle; it was cute.

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

I still have yet to see it. I saw an animation with a video from NASA explaining how it's gonna work.

Not for nothing, if I had known "ending the space program" meant "stop pointless moon visits and start learning the history of Mars," I would have signed those papers long ago.

[juggalogigolo]

i wouldnt call moon visits pointless

[The Professa]

fred Wrote:i wouldnt call moon visits pointless

[juggalogigolo]

going to mars is a pretty big step though, im REALLY looking foreward to virgin galactic, and the future of THAT, its not something ill most likely ever be able to afford, but its promising, and hopefully in 30 or 40 years, if its still around, the price will be low enough that i could sell all of my shit and make it to outerspace before i die

[sTr]

!'m with you, there's nothing ! want more out of life to stay the weekend at a hotel in space.

[The Professa]

That'd be bad ass. I'd be pretty ecstatic just getting the chance to work in one of the contributing labs doing research

[juggalogigolo]

currently, virgin galactic once it starts, will train you for a day, take you up, and your in outerspace for roughly a half hour, and then bring you back....for 200k. but in 30 years time, who knows. it was only 50 ish years ago that we landed on the moon

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

fred Wrote:i wouldnt call moon visits pointless

please elaborate....?

[juggalogigolo]

why do YOU think they ARE??

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

Well, I don't recall any new data coming back from there. It seems like everything we needed to know, we learned in the 60s on the first trip.

1. No atmosphere
2. Made of space dust
3. Low gravity
4. Cold on one side

Mars actually shows signs of life (or at least past life), and it can be a good thing to study to see what could happen to earth one day, and what we can do to prepare.

[The Professa]

I know you directed at fred specifically but I'm chiming in. :-*

I would pose the argument that if we learned everything that we wanted, and had all of our questions answered, then we would have stopped going. Similarly-though a bit of a stretch, we haven't learned all there is to know about deep sea, so we continue to explore.

The missions had different objectives; like exploring areas that hadn't been explored previously and surface and in flight experiments that hadn't been done. As an example apollo 14 studied solidification of immiscible compositions in microgravity, separation of organic molecules in an electric field, convective flow and heat transport driven by surface tension, and how different types of tank design influenced the pumping of liquids between tanks in microgravity, along with a couple others. These tests are valuable to future endeavors in space as we now better understand the effects.

Another is for the potential for fusion. Fusion is far from ideal because the reaction throws out a neutron that deteriorates its container at a very fast rate, making it expensive and overall not a good solution. However, there is an isotope, He3 (helium-3), that wouldn't destroy its container the same way and could be viable for fusion and would also eliminate the production of high-level radioactive waste as seen with hydrogen and deuterium fusion attempts. The downside is that it is very rare on earth, but is rather abundant on the moon. Im under the impression that china had already expressed interest in doing just that, and that russia expressed interest as well.

Lastly, they weren't a waste because of the priceless value of inspiration/motivation.

[Toxic Love]

I am going to keep reading this thread because I know nothing about astronomy or space travel. Please keep making posts, lol.

[sTr]

The rover just started sending new pictures back from mars, in full color.. Shit's just like ! thought it would be.

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

We literally landed on the moon and played golf.


Fucking.








Golf.





I could make the argument that all that happy honky dory inspiration stuff is true about Mars... AND it's helpful to the advancement of mankind.

Anyway, I didn't mean to take it so far off track.

You guys see the pictures?

[sTr]

http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

this is the best one !'ve seen yet

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

Oh my god, that is fucking cool. Mankind is exploring another planet. That's the coolest thing in the world to me.

[sTr]

[The Professa]

LuckyNumbrXIII Wrote:Oh my god, that is fucking cool. Mankind is exploring another planet. That's the coolest thing in the world to me.

this 10x over

[sTr]

! can't wait for the first mcdonald's on mars

[LuckyNumbrXIII]

sTr Wrote:! can't wait for the first mcdonald's on mars

The food was good, but the restaurant lacked atmosphere.

[Autumn]

Hahaha comic genius. <3

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[juggalogigolo]

awesome