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NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by lusr »

mtinkerhess wrote: post #67

To see the images from Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw Edit: it appears that the page has moved to http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ , discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4343891

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Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by jlgreco »

magic_haze wrote: post #54
lisper wrote: post #52

There were about 240,000 concurrent users on the web feed at touchdown. But not a single TV news channel was covering the event live that I could find.

cnn.com is, but they're just repeating the nasa feed unmodified.

Frankly that is better than any alternative they are really in a position to provide. I am sure it was hard for them to resist talking over it reading a bunch of tweets.

Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by arrrg »

yread wrote: post #69

what's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki: > ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR > Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency. > Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space f…

I think the difference here is pretty clear: If you want the best instruments you should look around internationally. There is so much diversity there, so much specialities, that you will always be able to find some places in the world that are exceptionally good at building them besides just the US.

However, if you actually want to get those things to the surface of Mars and let them do meaningful work, the best option is the US. ESA didn’t even manage a (successful) landing yet, Russia is failing constantly.

Re: NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

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Post by jcnnghm »

yread wrote: post #69

what's up with all the "what does it mean for the nation"? It's a huge step for the humanity, not only the US. And the actual rover is filled with instruments from all over the world. From wiki: > ChemCam ... developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and French CESR > Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer ... APXS was developed by Canadian Space agency. > Sample analysis at Mars ... was developed by Goddard Space f…

The US paid for the vast majority and are responsible for getting this to Mars. The crazy landing, and $2.5 billion at risk on a project with a 30% historic success rate, wase not shared. US total annual space spending is about $60 billion a year. The entire rest of the world combined is only about $22. The entire EU is under $6 billion.

This is an American achievement. If you aren't from the US, you should try to encourage your government to step up. If everyone committed at US levels by GDP, annual global space spending would be about $240 billion instead of $82 billion. Biomedical research is the same way.

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