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I want to see it drop on the head of an alien.

[Edited on May 25, 2008 at 6:47 PM. Reason : ,l;]

5/25/2008 6:44:37 PM

bonk.

[Edited on May 25, 2008 at 6:46 PM. Reason : fucking scientists starting interplanetary wars in the pursuit of knowledge]

5/25/2008 6:45:35 PM

if there's a massive sand storm, and the face emits an audible pulse that makes a mathematical representation of the human chromosome

lemme know


if yall find some rocks and shit

yawn

5/25/2008 6:45:55 PM

best chance at finding life on another place besides earth potentially in our lifetimes

hope it lands without a burnout

5/25/2008 6:46:57 PM

5/25/2008 6:48:52 PM

they should just turn that other one back on

modern day wall-e

5/25/2008 6:49:27 PM

20 mins to entry

5/25/2008 7:24:54 PM

^thats what she said

5/25/2008 7:35:40 PM

re-entry

5/25/2008 7:46:51 PM

re-entry?


more like entry

5/25/2008 7:47:16 PM

tell that to the nasa project manager then

5/25/2008 7:47:52 PM

shit is flying at 12,000mph through some martian air.

5/25/2008 7:48:50 PM

some poor planning took place to land this thing on a sunday evening....

5/25/2008 7:49:18 PM

tww spotting!

5/25/2008 7:56:37 PM

422 million miles. signal alive. she's on the ground.

mars just got pwnt.

5/25/2008 7:59:34 PM

M A R S

Mars, bitches.

5/25/2008 8:00:34 PM

Quote :

"some poor planning took place to land this thing on a sunday evening...."

It's Memorial Day Weekend. This is hardly your conventional Sunday.

5/25/2008 8:01:52 PM

Quote :

"some poor planning took place to land this thing on a sunday evening...."

are you mentally fucking retarded? do you think they're more concerned about which religious holidays you observe, or timing the mission to succeed within the various windows presented to them by the orbits involved, weather, etc?

5/25/2008 8:04:58 PM

yeah--3 day weekend

even more reason not to schedule it on a sunday

Martians don't care is its an american holiday

[Edited on May 25, 2008 at 8:06 PM. Reason : they could have scheduled it to land on friday or tuesday w/ probably same result]

5/25/2008 8:05:18 PM

nasa tv could use some better production.

5/25/2008 8:05:43 PM

this is great timing for me. what's the problem?


they are gonna launch the solar panels and camera on this thing in about an hour to get some pictures back

5/25/2008 8:09:48 PM

so what does this mean exactly?

5/25/2008 8:20:21 PM

Magnificent.

5/25/2008 8:22:10 PM

It landed on one of the polar ice caps so this is the first time we'll be able to study the water on Mars.

Plus we successfully landed a fucking robot on a planet like a million miles away so... yeah.

5/25/2008 8:22:17 PM

it landed a significant distance from the poles where the ice are.

nonetheless it did land near the north pole

it landed south of the surface ice regions just barely enough to land on soil where the ice is buried only a short distance below ground

5/25/2008 8:24:54 PM

Quote :

"It landed on one of the polar ice caps so this is the first time we'll be able to study the water on Mars."

First, we get the hydro; second,

5/25/2008 8:26:43 PM

^So is that where it was supposed to land or what?

5/25/2008 8:26:58 PM

here - in the top left. it's below the ice obviously, but yes, that's where it is 'supposed' to have landed. and it did according to its initial reports back to earth.

5/25/2008 8:30:12 PM

so why didn't one of the existing probes on there (spirit, opportunity, i think) just drive up to the poles and check it out instead of spending another shitload of tax money and sending another rocket there?

5/25/2008 8:34:08 PM

I'm not a fan of the state, but I love what NASA does.

5/25/2008 8:35:05 PM

^^ Because they go like 2-3 mph and that shit would take forever. A couple of those rovers have been on Mars for like 4 years and they only moved 30 miles or so.

5/25/2008 8:36:10 PM

^ hence the

5/25/2008 8:36:29 PM

oh, mb

5/25/2008 8:37:10 PM

i guess you can't put a price on finding if a planet has/had/or could support life. b/c if it could, then it might be humanities next home.


why can't they just put a man in one of these crafts next time who's willing to die, and send him food via more probes every few months. that'd be awesome. see if he survives. just send him a small nuclear reactor, some soil to grow stuff, and a shit load of MRE's every few months.

[Edited on May 25, 2008 at 8:40 PM. Reason : .]

5/25/2008 8:37:40 PM

It'll probably be humanity's next home either way.

[Edited on May 25, 2008 at 8:39 PM. Reason : ]

5/25/2008 8:39:36 PM

imstoned: i also wondered why they didn't just land right on top of the ice. i really don't know why they didn't.. the only reason i see why we didn't:


might be a tough landing?

5/25/2008 8:41:55 PM

Might have started an avalanche or something. I'm pretty sure an avalanche would have fucked one of those rovers up.

5/25/2008 8:44:27 PM

RED ROCKS

5/25/2008 8:45:16 PM

WHO SAID SOMETHIN BOUT OIL


BITCH, YOU COOKIN?

5/25/2008 8:56:16 PM

Quote :

"Suit up, space nerds, because the Phoenix lander is mere hours away from touchdown on Mars, and NASA's blowing this thing out. Not only will you get a live video feed from their site, but apparently Mission Control ops will be liveblogging the touchdown and ensuing alien encouners / totally boring rock digging. Festivities kick off at about 6:00pm ET, prepare to set faces to stunned."

-http://www.engadget.com

5/25/2008 11:26:04 PM

5/26/2008 12:37:21 AM

i think itd be cool if one of them things landed on a martian's house and he got all pissed an shit and returned fire, starting a galactic battle

that would be funny

5/26/2008 1:13:11 AM

Quote :

"so what does this mean exactly?"

5/26/2008 7:03:38 AM

so is that thing sitting on a slope of a hill or did the camera just take a crooked picture?

5/26/2008 9:02:40 AM

Quote :

"why can't they just put a man in one of these crafts next time who's willing to die, and send him food via more probes every few months. that'd be awesome. see if he survives. just send him a small nuclear reactor, some soil to grow stuff, and a shit load of MRE's every few months. "

we have wars and global warming to pay for here on earth

5/26/2008 9:04:54 AM

because we can pay our way out of global warming

5/26/2008 9:10:40 AM

Quote :

"shit is flying at 12,000mph through some martian air."

5/26/2008 9:14:50 AM

^^I actually meant the opposite

and actually...if we ever wanted to make Mars a livable planet, devoid of controlled environment domes, we'd have to intentionally insert greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and cause global warming to heat up the planet

[Edited on May 26, 2008 at 9:24 AM. Reason : asdfghj]

5/26/2008 9:20:47 AM

fucking auto login^^^

yea, problem is that will take hundreds of years

5/26/2008 9:28:49 AM

pfft

it doesn't in the movies

5/26/2008 9:29:35 AM