Author Topic: The Opportunity has Landed! (Read 1718 times)

Chairboy · « **on:** January 24, 2004, 11:18:58 PM »

Watching NASA TV, preliminary report is that it has landed succesfully. They have received telemetry from it during the rolling phase.

Way to go, guys!

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2004, 11:23:27 PM »

Everyone in the control room at JPL just got real quiet.... and just got the message 'We have a no-fault-tone.'. Any everyone cheers again! This means that the lander feels it is landed properly.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2004, 11:38:09 PM »

Hooray for middle class welfare.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2004, 12:06:49 AM »

NASA TV? What uber cable company is this?

Chairboy · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2004, 12:17:31 AM »

I was watching it online. Some satellite companies have NASA TV, like Dish Network.

vorticon · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2004, 12:45:32 AM »

thus proving succesfully that america already has a anti-non american probe missile defence system in place on mars

SOB · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2004, 01:00:17 AM »

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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
NASA TV? What uber cable company is this?

LOL, you'll generally find NASA TV broacast on your local public access station. It's paid for by public funding, so the broadcast feed is given away, and it's used as fill. I don't know if I've ever seen it as an actual channel by itself. Either way it's 90% boring, 5% mildly interesting, and 5% worth watching.

Bodhi · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2004, 02:34:43 AM »

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Originally posted by vorticon
thus proving succesfully that america already has a anti-non american probe missile defence system in place on mars

Duedel and the rest of the euro trash will be along shortly to make just that accusation!

Tuomio · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2004, 04:46:28 AM »

Whoa it seems theyre in a crater, strange place, not a single rock around.

Otto · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2004, 03:14:59 PM »

NASA has done a great job and needs to be thanked by the World Community. The money to fund this was well spent. The idea that mankind can survive on Earth alone is silly. If the ice on the Martian polar caps can be melted and the oxygen release (H2O) it's just possible that an atmosphere will be generated that can trap solar heat and warm Mars to the point where it is habitable. After that, water will flow and plants will grow.

I'd rather raise my head and look at the stars than lower it and hope for the best.

majic · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2004, 03:51:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Otto

I'd rather raise my head and look at the stars than lower it and hope for the best.

Nicely put.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2004, 04:03:57 PM »

WTG NASA!!

In Europe we have to learn that you can't spend 10 times less in a martian rover and expect it to have a large enough failure margin for such a demanding mission.

If we want to do something BIG, inter-agencies cooperation is vital.

Imagine the robotics/telecommand expertise of NASA combined with Energy management and Life support experience from RSA, and instruments from Europe, Japan, Canada...

The ISS is good proof of it (damn good piece of engineering), so I hope we can work together to go even further.

Daniel

Bodhi · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2004, 04:25:30 PM »

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Originally posted by CyranoAH
WTG NASA!!

In Europe we have to learn that you can't spend 10 times less in a martian rover and expect it to have a large enough failure margin for such a demanding mission.

If we want to do something BIG, inter-agencies cooperation is vital.

Imagine the robotics/telecommand expertise of NASA combined with Energy management and Life support experience from RSA, and instruments from Europe, Japan, Canada...

The ISS is good proof of it (damn good piece of engineering), so I hope we can work together to go even further.

Daniel

ditto

lord dolf vader · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2004, 05:31:33 PM »

all of us merrily holding hands and batting eyelashes at each other. what a nice delusion floyd could write a song about it its so twisted...

Angus · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2004, 05:37:04 PM »

hmm.
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"NASA has done a great job and needs to be thanked by the World Community. The money to fund this was well spent. The idea that mankind can survive on Earth alone is silly. If the ice on the Martian polar caps can be melted and the oxygen release (H2O) it's just possible that an atmosphere will be generated that can trap solar heat and warm Mars to the point where it is habitable. After that, water will flow and plants will grow"

The Earth is quite a bit nicer than Mars, yet we humans are screwing it up so badly that we think we need to start terraforming another planet as a back up.
Isn't this getting the water from the other side of the pond?