Launch a jar into LEO to make the coolest man-made meteor shower ever?

Article even includes a close-up picture of what a penny might look like.

So how long till some atheist sues NASA for having the phrase "In God we trust" written on a government spacecraft?

So NASA will spend a penny on this Mars flight...

/interesting

It would have been cooler had it been "Send your pennies to us, one will be chosen to GO TO MARS" Funding problem = solved, also sending in a $1 bill would buy you 100 chances to get your penny to mars, but they'd get to pick which penny.

I'll call it "Money to Mars"

That's not just any penny. That's a penny pain-stakingly engineered to withstand the rigors of the vaccuum of space, the corrosive atmosphere of Mars, and the shocks of launching and landing. That's a $750,000 penny provided by some sub-contractor, I expect.

j/k, the engineers making the probe probably flipped a coin to see who's penny got the ride.

Zelron: who's penny got the ride.

But if who is penny got the ride, then who was phone?

way south: So how long till some atheist sues NASA for having the phrase "In God we trust" written on a government spacecraft?

I hope they sue and win. We'll have to send someone up there to remove it.

erveek: way south: So how long till some atheist sues NASA for having the phrase "In God we trust" written on a government spacecraft?

I hope they sue and win. We'll have to send someone up there to remove it.

I like the way you think.

Jackpot777: Zelron: who's penny got the ride.

But if who is penny got the ride, then who was phone?

way south: erveek: way south: So how long till some atheist sues NASA for having the phrase "In God we trust" written on a government spacecraft?

I hope they sue and win. We'll have to send someone up there to remove it.

I like the way you think.

I can't believe we never thought of that sooner.

I hope they had the decency to use one that is dated before they started counterfeiting the money supply.

It's bad enough living with knowing you've been had without making us an interstellar laughing stock.

Not quite as cool as the lego color calibration target on the current rovers.

Not the first time Lincoln has been used as a target.

OnlyM3

ordinarily you're a barking mad dumbf*ck, but that was funny.

Does Stokey Poo mean the awful zinc pennies?

Donnchadha: CheapEngineer: Jackpot777: Zelron: who's penny got the ride.

But if who is penny got the ride, then who was phone?

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Now I see why Sheldon keeps the apartment at 71 degrees, although he probably doesn't.

I'm OK with this. I'll even give them all of the pennies in my change jar. One for each rover they send out.

We're going to need some manpower for building and assembling these things, also some funding. Time to end the wars, bring the service people home and give them jobs.

Sadly, my scenario would be modified by having the rovers assembled by Foxconn.

Will be very neat to see how the mars environment effects it over its lifetime. Assuming of course the rover doesn't crash into the planet, but I'm confident those boffins at NASA know a thing or two about landing on Mars! After all they're the only people to have done so, and have done so six times successfully before.

Also of note, Opportunity has a very good chance of becoming the most traveled rover on any celestial body very soon if it survives the winter. At the moment its in third place having traveled 21.35 miles (34.35 km). The Apollo 17 rover traveled 22.30 miles (35.89 km), and the Soviet Lunokhod 1 traveled 23 miles (37.00 km).

FloydA: Counterfeit pennies?

It takes about 150 pre 83 "copper alloy" coins to equal a pound of copper. So for each pound of copper based cents/pennies, you are actually getting (at today's prices) over 4 dollars of copper base metal.

Copper seems undervalued and hasn't held its value as well as some of the other metals. Still it works out you can still get a gallon of gas for about 150 of them.

A gallon of gas used to run between 17 and 25 cents in the sixties.



A real one doesn't weigh that much more. And it's shameless copper.

Donnchadha: Grapple: Ass Pennies?

One at a time, mind you.

Are you kidding? That's what I do with rolls of 50 after I'm finished filling them.

/zing
//working on firing it...LIKE A CANNON OUT MY ASSHOLE
/i'm kidding

StokeyBob: Copper seems undervalued



/it's not worth very much, it's plenty abundant
//you probably have 50-100lbs of it in your walls delivering electricity to all your gadgets

This is not what the vendor meant when he said he could give you a top of the line calibration system but it would cost you a pretty penny.