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What is "F5ed"?
Everyone refreshing their browsers by pressing F5. :)
People move their hand to F5 when they can stay close to home and hit C-r?
Mars Curiosity's first images
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#62From a screen recording I took: http://i.imgur.com/C5Y6P.jpg I actually shed a tear. That was beautiful. Edit: Raw images being put on Twitter by NASA: http://p.twimg.com/Azl6LRUCMAAU1GK.jpg:large http://p.twimg.com/Azl9hyXCEAE5_Hw.jpg:large http://p.twimg.com/Azl7LXOCUAAJT5z.jpg:large
Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
Yes GNOME with metacity window manager https://twitter.com/jdub/status/232350347404918784
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#63Re: Mars Curiosity's first images
#64From a screen recording I took: http://i.imgur.com/C5Y6P.jpg I actually shed a tear. That was beautiful. Edit: Raw images being put on Twitter by NASA: http://p.twimg.com/Azl6LRUCMAAU1GK.jpg:large http://p.twimg.com/Azl9hyXCEAE5_Hw.jpg:large http://p.twimg.com/Azl7LXOCUAAJT5z.jpg:large
Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
Hey, if it does the job... The CPU on the Rover is from 2001.
Everything has to work, so I rarely begrudge them somewhat dated tech.
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#66My god, the energy in that room was amazing. Just watching how happy they were was worth staying up late for.
So glad I watched. Anyone else hear the F bomb and 'Holy Shit' ?
I liked that bit. Drove home the humanity of the people who had just accomplished something that only a few thousand years ago was thought to be in the domain of gods.
That we as a species have come so far but still retain our sense of self is fantastic.
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#67What innovations from this vehicle can we expect to see trickle down into the consumer space?
First you need a time machine. These types of trickle down are not identified till much later. If you knew what it would be in advance you wouldn't need it to trickle down - you could just use or develop it directly.
I think the Curiosity team would object to your answer. They've been working on the project for almost a decade, have spent thousands (millions?) of man-hours on it, and have written 500,000 lines of code to control it. The dollar amount that has gone into building it is greater than the value of many fortune 500 companies!
There are probably some awesome innovations that came out of such a large project, it's a great question to ask.
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That's really cool. Would love it if they had some video, or alternatively made a visualization of the entire landing sequence using received data. Like for instance a video of the telemetry you took screenshots of.
I believe there will be video from the perspective of the crane throughout the landing.
That's amazing, I can't wait to see that :)
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That's really cool. Would love it if they had some video, or alternatively made a visualization of the entire landing sequence using received data. Like for instance a video of the telemetry you took screenshots of.
An excellent, data-rich visualization was done for the Huygens probe that landed on Saturn's moon Titan as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia0811...
Exactly something like that I am looking for, thanks
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#70This tweet reminded me of what's next:
"RT @DanielBrian: I love that @MarCuriosity launched Nov '11 but @NewHorizons2015 launched '06 & won't arrive @Pluto til 2015! Space is huge!"
https://twitter.com/NewHorizons2015/status/23236225947574272...
New Horzons is the spacecraft currently on its way to Pluto--it's expected to be in range in about three years or so.