Curiosity Lands on Mars

[stoppingby4now]

Curiosity has landed on Mars using a "Sky Crane". Very amazing.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html for you late nighters.

[frihyland]

Just so awesome, I was watching nasa the other day training for driving the rovers.  Gonna search for video of that landing, that is some wild stuff.

[Farlo]

Woo! Been watching NASA TV for the last two hours.

[stoppingby4now]

It truly is amazing that the landing went off without a hitch. A very technical landing, planned from a completely different planet. I'm so pumped right now. :D

[Farlo]

It truly is amazing that the landing went off without a hitch. A very technical landing' date=' planned from a completely different planet. I'm so pumped right now. :D[/quote']

I know right!?  You should totally hit Ctrl+F5 

[stoppingby4now]

It truly is amazing that the landing went off without a hitch. A very technical landing' date=' planned from a completely different planet. I'm so pumped right now. :D[/quote']

I know right!?  You should totally hit Ctrl+F5 

Awesome!

[Farlo]

Awesome!

We should totally do it for holidays and stuff; we can put a Santa Hat on the "T".

[stoppingby4now]

Great video.

 

 

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[stoppingby4now]

Here is an image of Curiosity descending with the parachute open, caught by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Satellite.

[Gyro]

Loving the new logo!

[TheCompiler]

I'm a science lover as you might know already, this archivement makes me a happy nerd ;)

[frihyland]

Nice big picture article that really sums up my personal perspective beautifully.

[LeetMiniWheat]

Nice big picture article that really sums up my personal perspective beautifully.

That article touches on a lot of controversial points (like climate change BS), not sure why the author decided to turn a science achievement into some massive political statement.

[frihyland]

Nice big picture article that really sums up my personal perspective beautifully.

That article touches on a lot of controversial points (like climate change BS), not sure why the author decided to turn a science achievement into some massive political statement.

I think you got caught up in the whole polarized politics and missed the point of the article, which is that massive achievements are still possible by concerted human effort no matter the odds (if you are able to check your individual politics and religion at the door and get to work).

[LeetMiniWheat]

 

Nice big picture article that really sums up my personal perspective beautifully.

That article touches on a lot of controversial points (like climate change BS), not sure why the author decided to turn a science achievement into some massive political statement.

I think you got caught up in the whole polarized politics and missed the point of the article, which is that massive achievements are still possible by concerted human effort no matter the odds (if you are able to check your individual politics and religion at the door and get to work).

I agree, but it just seemed like the majority of the article was intended to push the author's political opinions and/or place blame on different political reasons for the lack of our progression in science. Either way, definitely a positive step for mankind. It amazes me how these types of projects get funded at all in our current state of economy.