Spirit on Mars

“A traveling robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars and returned stunning images of the area around its landing site in Gusev Crater.

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully sent a radio signal after the spacecraft had bounced and rolled for several minutes following its initial impact at 11:35 p.m. EST (8:35 p.m. Pacific Standard Time) on January 3.


Mars Rover”

“I saw the pics and I can't wait to see more.

8)”

“Yea, they're awesome”

“Looks like bacpac beat them there!

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“Hey, this sounds like a thread Tilt should have posted!! lol... Tango beat ya to it.”

“This is so cool! It is amazing that they landed in this little crater!

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“I got home last night and watched the celebration ceremony and listened to what the 6-7 people in charge of the project had to say. It wasn't until the last person spoke that revelations of almost every aspect of the landing was revealed...everyone else thanked those within and others that helped in the project.

They knew everything in advance and almost to the second of when it would happen...and everything went as planned AND to the second.

One of the guys put it into perspective when he said how he'd like to thank the propulsion-people, the balloon-people, the hydraulic-people, the optics-people, the rover-people, the solar-power-people, etc., etc., etc., and stated how it was the cumulative success of each individual team that culminated in the ultimate success of this landing, and that if one of the components would've failed, the mission would've failed also.

This mission truely is one giant leap for mankind.”

“It was funny... the celebration ceremony on TV said "LIVE", and when I turned the channel I came to CNN Headline News and the newslady said that the Mars Spirit Rover is expected to land on the planet Mars within the next 2 hours."

Well, I got a kick out of it.”

“I read that the Rover Spirit bounced and rolled for a mile. Incredible that that thing is still working!!!

In Violin's photo above...it seems like Jesus made it there first.”

“Aren't there supposed to be three crosses?”

“tic-tac-toe!”

“"Aren't there supposed to be three crosses?"


Better take that up with bacpac

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“BTW, violin never posts on weekends.”

“Violin nice pix! Hi now slimmer, i'm getting slimmer too! I've lost 78 lbs now.”

“What's that from Tilt?”

“LMAO at Violin!”

“I believe that may be from Marvin's original appearance as "Commander X-2" in "Haredevil-Hare"(1948).

(yes -- Marvin turns 56 this year)”

“Oh, ok. Thanks.”

“Oh, HERE ya go!

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“What do they expect to find other than a bunch of rocks?”

“Signs of water...which may mean life once existed on the Red Planet.

The geomorphology of the surface, as we've seen it from above, indicates water once existed and shaped the surface of portions of the panet, and although water/ice is not visually apparent from photos, it may still exist in bulk below the surface...or microscopically in the rocks.

And there's lots of other experiments that'll take place now that we finally got there successfully.”

“http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040106/480/ny11301061737

sharpest picture to date of martian surface”

“hey packinheatbear, ya wanna be the best armed man on another planet? i think we can arrange it”

“This explains a lot:


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“LMDAO @ violin.

That is an instant classic.”

“LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO”

“Get yourself a pair of 3-D glasses and take a look at this 3-d panorama.

Looks like you're looking out a window at Mars.”

“What a great day! We really needed this after all that has happened at NASA latley.

So.......when do we start re-writing the Bible?”

“LMFAO @ Violin!!! That's the funniest picture I've seen in awhile.”

“nutter from another planet?”

“Anybody catch this?

NOVA: Mars Dead Or Alive


I missed it last night, but it's supposed to repeat on South Carolina ETV... Sunday at 2 PM.

Georgia Public TV.... Tonight at midnight and Saturday at 3 am.”

“I saw parts of it, but I taped it last night. Parts I did see were really cool. Catch it if you've got time.”

“rrrrrrrrroger that.”

“Classic, Violin!!! LMAO”

“PLOTTING SPIRIT'S COURSE

Remember the name "Sleepy Hollow." In images released on Monday by
scientists working with the Spirit rover on Mars, the newly discovered,
light-colored feature (the first Spirit-site landmark to be given a name)
will likely be the initial objective for the rover when it starts to roll
around next week.

At a press conference on Monday, Mars Exploration Rover principal
investigator Steven W. Squyres (Cornell University) reported "more good
news." The craft is alive and healthy, and so far all its instruments
appear to be in perfect working order....

> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1140_1.asp”

“Whadda ya wanna bet they name one of the rocks 'Ichabod'... or 'Irving'... ?

I still chuckle thinking about the rock they named 'Barnacle Bill' from the Pathfinder mission.


Barnacle Bill?

Jaysus Murphy.”

“Ha! During the 80's after each return to the local pool hall from the Bering Sea, I was always greeted by:
"Look, it's Barnacle Paul, back from the briny deep."”

“AARRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...


LOL”

“maybe it was squashed by a giant sign of life.”

“Houston we have a problem!”

“It's all a part of Nasa's conspiracy. Read about it here:

http://www.libertythink.com/totalinformation/BlueMars.htm”

“At this moment, some little ET kid is using it as a toy tonka truck.”

“Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me Major Tom ....”

“or the frequency from his remote car is interfering.”

“Anyone remember that one hit wonder from the band, "Mars?"”