I took those during landing sequence.. http://i45.tinypic.com/353eemc.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/ej95s5.png http://i49.tinypic.com/2qicoqq.png http://i50.tinypic.com/2hd8j13.png edit: its just fun to watch those. also, according to NASA there is 500,000 lines of code behind those 38 steps.. would love to see some parts of it!
Why are these not games yet? HN has dozens of people capable of creating a nice lunar lander / mars lander sim.
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Australia has always been a backend operator. Similar for NASA other missions. It has provided the third contact point for when earth spins around which puts the other two contacts point out of reach.
They even did a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
Visited the Parkes telescope about 12mths after the movie launched, and can totally understand playing cricket on that surface. Ideal shape for playing cricket with only a batsman and a bowler.
Sorry had to drop a cricket reference here...
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I think the tax payers of the United States deserve a round of applause from the rest of us for funding such a mission. It's not that other countries can't do this - we just don't want to pay for it...
Don't clap too long, NASA has long been on the funding chopping block, and there are far too many who would like to see it eliminated completely. They don't care that they are putting vehicles on Mars. They're too myopic to even think about what the future might look like. 2.5 billion dollars to put Curiosity on Mars. That's is a little more than double of what NBC paid to air the Olympics[1]. Imagine what they could…
Space exploration is not a war between "funding" and "they." Consider what you can do in your home or with your friends to advance space exploration instead of cheering on abstract forces with vague connections to real knowledge, drive and accomplishment.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't clap too long, NASA has long been on the funding chopping block, and there are far too many who would like to see it eliminated completely. They don't care that they are putting vehicles on Mars. They're too myopic to even think about what the future might look like. 2.5 billion dollars to put Curiosity on Mars. That's is a little more than double of what NBC paid to air the Olympics[1]. Imagine what they could…
Space exploration is not a war between "funding" and "they." Consider what you can do in your home or with your friends to advance space exploration instead of cheering on abstract forces with vague connections to real knowledge, drive and accomplishment.
You're sadly mistaken if you think space exploration isn't dependent on funding, and that that funding is in constant danger of being slashed.
As far as "what you can do in your home ... to advance space exploration" pretty sure contacting my congresspeople and telling them that funding for NASA is important to me is the best thing I can do.
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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.
Hundred. A few hundred years ago.
Depressing, but true.
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#137I took those during landing sequence.. http://i45.tinypic.com/353eemc.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/ej95s5.png http://i49.tinypic.com/2qicoqq.png http://i50.tinypic.com/2hd8j13.png edit: its just fun to watch those. also, according to NASA there is 500,000 lines of code behind those 38 steps.. would love to see some parts of it!
I missed the landing sequence. Is there a video recording available somewhere ?
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#138Great historic event; congratulations to all involved. As for the images, hate to be a party pooper, but wasn't this thing supposed to be state of the art technology? What's with the shitty image quality?
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#139I can't help but share the headline in The New Yorker's Fake News & Political Satire section: "Mars Rover Should Not Get So Much Attention, Say Higgs-Boson Scientists."[1]
Humor aside, this is a sign that we're living in interesting times: two major human achievements occurring within a few weeks of each other. All I can say is, wow. I love it.
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[1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08...
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#140From 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
After loving the emotional response from the team, I actually opened one of these images in my browser and it hit me: there are bits in the memory of my computer right now that are a function of bits on Mars.
More news Here: http://goo.gl/325Mu