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NASA's Curiosity Rover - Touchdown confirmed. 21-0 Duke

you don't have a sense of humor you bigot
 
Knight said:
Let me paraphrase what you guys sound like right now:

HEY, NASA, WHY THE FUCK CAN'T YOU STREAM HULU TO MARS AND BACK SO I CAN WATCH "JERSEY SHORE 10: BACK TO THE GUIDO" WHILE I LOOK AT MARS ROCKS IN HIGH DEFINITION? IT'S NOT LIKE THE EARTH AND MARS ARE ANYWHERE FROM 54.6 MILLION AND 401 MILLION KILOMETERS APART DEPENDING ON THE SECOND AT WHICH YOU DO THE CALCULATION AND BOTH ARE HURTLING THROUGH SPACE AT 30 KM/SEC, WHICH IS ABOUT ONE THOUSAND TIMES FASTER THAN A BULLET.

I MEAN GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, NASA!

WiFi ON A MOTHERFUCKING AIRPLANE FOR CHRISTSAKES!

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why are you so bent out of shape over people poking fun at NASA? you should probably not be such a pussy about it.
 
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Notice anything in the Google doodle?
 
Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meters.
 
The 7 minutes of terror remind me of the night we stayed up to watch the moon landing in 1969. No one could believe that it was really going to work.
 
Supradeac said:
Why fake color? Surely it has a color camera on it?
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Pretty sure they are still using the Haz cams. The Mast hasn't been raised yet, but when it is, we'll start seeing some really breathtaking stuff. It is capable of 720p video and 1200x1200 pictures.
 
When the mast is raised, will we then see color? I mean, for fuck's sake, it's not like they launched this shit in the 60s. They launched it a few years ago, and without Ansel Adams on board.
 
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EatLeadCommie said:
When the mast is raised, will we then see color? I mean, for fuck's sake, it's like they launched this shit in the 60s. They launched it a few years ago, and without Ansel Adams on board.
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Yes. We'll see nearly true(to the human eye) color images.
 
The cameras that have been sending images are the black and white "hazard avoidance" cameras or HazCams. Their job is to spot stuff on the ground that the rover should not run over. Once the mast is deployed, we will get the much better pictures from the MastCam as noted above. I for one can't wait. Those pics should be awesome. Closeups of Mars taken with a really good camera.
 
TWDeac said:
Yes. We'll see nearly true(to the human eye) color images.
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Color image mosaics of the full 360° martian landscape around the MSL rover can be acquired quickly—within an hour. With a large internal data storage capability of 8 Gbytes, these data can be stored indefinitely (until commanded by the camera operations team to be deleted). Thumbnail images of 200 by 150 pixels are returned to Earth for all images, and then the science team can select which full frames in a given mosaic are to be returned to Earth for scientific analysis.
 
BLUF for noobs: shits about to get HD on that ass just have patience. And for gods sake turn off call me maybe and turn on NPR once in a while. They've been explaining how this works all fucking day. And there will be HD video. But it won't even move from present location until probably SEP. so take a puff smell the roses appreche the moment brah
 
I think they should charge people $10,000 to be able to control the Mars rover with your iPhone for an hour.

Screw funding NASA, fund yourselves. You put a fucking SUV on Mars and you can't figure out how to make money outside of IMAX movies?
 
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