Cygnus Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Wake me up when we've built bases up there and on the moon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 20 2012, 01:04 PM) Wake me up when we've built bases up there and on the moon... Better go into cryogenic stasis. It's gonna take us a while..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Aug 20 2012, 01:32 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 20 2012, 01:04 PM) Wake me up when we've built bases up there and on the moon... Better go into cryogenic stasis. It's gonna take us a while..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 20 2012, 01:04 PM) Wake me up when we've built bases up there and on the moon... Dude, I can get you to the moon. Send me fifty bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 20 2012, 01:04 PM) Wake me up when we've built bases up there and on the moon... Considering it's been over 40 years since we landed on the moon, we should've progressed further by now and we should have something else on Mars besides the rovers. This plan should've already been started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars I still think it's a good thing the new rover is there but I think were behind a lot of years when it comes to doing something serious and worthwhile on Mars. Edited August 22, 2012 by J2112YYZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t2s Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 It would help if the space program had funding instead of the hundreds of billions of dollars on the military Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompers Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Principled Man Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 22 2012, 02:56 PM)I saw some of the press conference earlier and I was thinking to myself why am I not as excited about this dust-pushing machine as those scientists seem to be? I thought about it and realised I would have been excited about it if it was 1977... Those scientists get so little funding and opportunities to explore the solar system that any successful mission is like Christmas x 1,000. It's akin to an NFL player finally winning the Super Bowl after playing 20 years! We're lucky we even got the Viking probes launched in the 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Aug 22 2012, 04:58 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 22 2012, 02:56 PM)I saw some of the press conference earlier and I was thinking to myself why am I not as excited about this dust-pushing machine as those scientists seem to be? I thought about it and realised I would have been excited about it if it was 1977... Those scientists get so little funding and opportunities to explore the solar system that any successful mission is like Christmas x 1,000. It's akin to an NFL player finally winning the Super Bowl after playing 20 years! We're lucky we even got the Viking probes launched in the 70's. And the Voyagers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Shrimp_Cot Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 http://www.wimp.com/curiositydescent/ wimp.com - one of my favourite sites. Or favorite for us USers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 QUOTE (My_Shrimp_Cot @ Aug 23 2012, 06:40 PM) http://www.wimp.com/curiositydescent/ wimp.com - one of my favourite sites. Or favorite for us USers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I wonder what the Total Recall people up there will make of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 QUOTE (My_Shrimp_Cot @ Aug 23 2012, 06:40 PM) http://www.wimp.com/curiositydescent/ wimp.com - one of my favourite sites. Or favorite for us USers. way cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgeranacoke Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 (edited) Curiosity would like you to view this photo of the base of Mount Sharp http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/681056main_pia16105ano.jpg For scale, the pointy mound (about 9.3 kilometers away from Curiosity) in the center of the image, looming above the highlighted rover-sized rock, is about 1,000 feet (300 meters) across and 300 feet (100 meters) high. Edited August 28, 2012 by burgeranacoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Very cool picture. I wonder where the Jawas are hiding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 24 2012, 03:39 AM)I wonder what the Total Recall people up there will make of it? http://abesauer.com/__oneclick_uploads/2009/04/total-recall.gif -- I don't like it!! Edited August 28, 2012 by Workaholic Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingcinderellaman Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 QUOTE (burgeranacoke @ Aug 28 2012, 10:36 AM) Curiosity would like you to view this photo of the base of Mount Sharp http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/681056main_pia16105ano.jpg For scale, the pointy mound (about 9.3 kilometers away from Curiosity) in the center of the image, looming above the highlighted rover-sized rock, is about 1,000 feet (300 meters) across and 300 feet (100 meters) high. I'm no geologist but in looking at this picture you can see striations that look like sediment layers and some of the canyons look like they may have been formed by water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 The awesome beauty of that landscape, so Earth-like, is marred by one fairly important detail: If you go for a stroll out there without your space suit on, you will die. What an inconvenience...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Shrimp_Cot Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Sweet! Too bad you head would explode - along with the rest of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgeranacoke Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 (edited) QUOTE I'm no geologist but in looking at this picture you can see striations that look like sediment layers and some of the canyons look like they may have been formed by water. Yep.... to my untrained eye it looks like massive flooding, wind-born layers typically form units that are less laterally continuous than seen here. Cross-bedded sandstones are indicative of wind deposition, as seen in the US southwest. Like this... http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_5/dunes.jpg Edited August 29, 2012 by burgeranacoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 I think that it is a generally excepted fact that there was once water all over Mars. The problem is that the planet is too small to hold onto an atmosphere and the water all fled to the poles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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