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		Murphy can go suck it, Rube Goldberg for the win. Curiosity has landed successfully on Mars (ustream.tv)		667
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StoPPeRmobile		2012-08-06 02:28:26 AM

steamingpile: VRaptor117: So, I hate to be "that guy" but anyone want to speculate on how Fox News is going to spin this into a negative? Maybe something about "Mars is red like communism and Obumbo just sent the communists our most advanced rover technology." Or something.

Its useless, enjoy shiatting on an achievement douchebags, just shows how all threads are just troll fests now.

Good night anyone who enjoyed it, fark off to anyone who tried to derail any discussion or enjoyment on Fark yet again.

Whatever Mr Poopy Pants.

/doomed

roughridersfan		2012-08-06 02:28:32 AM

clear_prop		2012-08-06 02:28:41 AM

crypticsatellite: I wish more people were as into the Mars landing tonight (not to mention other scientific endeavors) as they are into sports. I bet the world would be a different and better place if these things were given the same general importance as sports are given in our society. It's sad.

Times Square tonight:

p.twimg.com

TV's Vinnie		2012-08-06 02:28:42 AM

srtpointman: I teared up while telling my wife and don't know why. It's just so....awesome. We wake up to an asshole shooting a bunch of Sikhs and go to bed having landed and SUV sized vehicle on Mars. So much to be ashamed of and proud of in the span of 24 hours.

Guess which story the news outlets will jibber about for the next seven days.

cc_rider		2012-08-06 02:28:44 AM

I think he just told Fox News and the Fartbongo-derengement-syndrome folks to go suck it.

gadian		2012-08-06 02:28:46 AM

I tried to watch it live from the NASA website and the farker kept crashing my graphics card. :(

Master of the Flying Guillotine		2012-08-06 02:29:04 AM

PROUD

kg209		2012-08-06 02:29:14 AM

U! S! A!
U! S! A!
U! S! A!

Well done JPL and NASA! This is an accomplishment we are all proud of!

tinfoil-hat maggie		2012-08-06 02:29:21 AM

So very cool. Congrats NASA.

JesterJoker55		2012-08-06 02:29:53 AM

Ha ha ha, NASA uses windows XP.

Good on them!

Legio Minervia		2012-08-06 02:30:04 AM

knoxvelour: so Obama spent MY hard earned tax dollars to invade another planet???

Go be a douche somewhere else.

This is awesome news. I can't wait to see what things this project will discover.

jigger		2012-08-06 02:30:06 AM

towatchoverme: THIS is the America I love.

The America that's about science, and courage ... not fundamentalism and fear.

How is government supposed to work without fear?

towatchoverme:The America that gives something amazing, freely, to the whole world ... not the one that whines about "taxpayer dollars" and "socialism."

The America that dares us all to dream big, take risks, reach out and explore.

This is America the good. No ... the GREAT.

I want to see more of THIS America.

You know who else was all about National Greatness?

LordOfThePings		2012-08-06 02:30:25 AM

VRaptor117: So, I hate to be "that guy"

What a coincidence, you were "that guy" in the other thread too.

Bathia_Mapes		2012-08-06 02:30:29 AM

towatchoverme: Animated GIF of the big moment (too big, even for New Fark (TM)

Heh! That's cool.

wjmorris3		2012-08-06 02:30:30 AM

NBC will be showing the LIVE Curiosity rover landing in about six hours. Of course, they'll cut the important bits to show Ryan Seacrest interviewing Raye Hino.

make me some tea		2012-08-06 02:31:02 AM

A bit of dust in the eyes watching this. They all made this happen.

dualplains		2012-08-06 02:31:18 AM

timujin: Hah, I get to keep my job AND I got the green! Woohoo!

Grats, Timujin! Were you there?

Testiclaw		2012-08-06 02:31:38 AM

make me some tea: A bit of dust in the eyes watching this. They all made this happen.

Yes, but...it's Martian dust!

shower_in_my_socks		2012-08-06 02:32:25 AM

My grandfather was an engineer on the X-15 space plane, the Apollo Program, and the Space Shuttle. He passed away a few days ago. Wish I could call him and talk about this in the morning.

Unbelievable job. Didn't think it was possible. It's unfortunate that corrupt politics and an ignorant population are harming the future of our space exploration. Fewer bombs; more space missions.

miss diminutive		2012-08-06 02:32:32 AM

Coelacanth: Testiclaw: [i.imgur.com image 639x862]

That's how you get favorited.

/Blue 4

I gave him Blue 2 in the other thread

Ah, science. Teacher, mother, secret lover. What will you gift us next?

boomm		2012-08-06 02:32:36 AM

Did anybody get the judges' scores yet on that landing?

tzzhc4		2012-08-06 02:32:38 AM

I was watching it live and biting my nails as they were calling out the skycrane status!!!!! Awesome job NASA now let's do laser some rocks and do some science!

StoPPeRmobile		2012-08-06 02:32:49 AM

towatchoverme		2012-08-06 02:33:01 AM

Inspiring as all hell.

That was an AWESOME night of web/television. Thanks, JPL.

/Now gonna cry myself to sleep that i didn't study math harder
//Brilliant. Just ... wow.

Testiclaw		2012-08-06 02:33:12 AM

miss diminutive: gave him Blue 2 in the other thread

miss diminutive blue'd me!

platedlizard		2012-08-06 02:33:19 AM

jack21221: platedlizard: TyrantII: Anyone know how far off target it was?

Less than a hundred meters, i think. they were pretty close to target.

I'm pretty sure I heard them say 2.6something before they cut away, and I assume that's kilometers. Still incredible.

That's probably more accurate than my number, which come to think of it I got before entry. They put her down on a nice wide flat plain in case of screwups, too.

A good show all around.

JonBuck		2012-08-06 02:33:24 AM

The whole thing had me on the edge of my seat. The engineers who designed this system deserve a big bonus!

Let's do some Science, people!

cc_rider		2012-08-06 02:33:37 AM

America, fark yeah!

/Seriously. Good jorb, NASA, and JPL. :)

JesterJoker55		2012-08-06 02:33:47 AM

I wonder how many people are going to realize just how impressive this year has been for space travel, both govt. and commercial.

Just this year we had a the first commercial cargo space flight dock with the ISS, We made HUGE strides in learning the potential habitation of other heavenly bodies, and now this big ol' badass mofo just arrived and is currently tearing ass around the red planet doing donuts and shiat.

Impressive is all i'll say.

StoPPeRmobile		2012-08-06 02:34:04 AM

Baron Harkonnen		2012-08-06 02:34:11 AM

Does anyone know if there is any place where a plastic model of the Curiosity probe can be ordered online? I like putting together plastic models of spacecraft, and I'd love a Curiosity to put up on my shelf. I've looked around, and I can't find one anywhere.

VvonderJesus		2012-08-06 02:34:17 AM

cameroncrazy1984: VvonderJesus: Considering the cuts President Obama has made to the NASA program, he already feels it to be a waste of resources.

All that has to change. And with the strategy I'm outlining today, it will. We start by increasing NASA's budget by $6 billion over the next five years, even -- (applause) -- I want people to understand the context of this. This is happening even as we have instituted a freeze on discretionary spending and sought to make cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Go be an idiot somewhere else.

I sincerely apologize for my inaccurate statement.

Politics aside, this is a great night for scientists and for Earth.

Man On Pink Corner		2012-08-06 02:34:29 AM

Ricardo Klement: Iron core is too small. No atmosphere can survive the solar winds without a bigger magnetic shield.

Details.

DeltaPunch		2012-08-06 02:34:32 AM

cptjeff		2012-08-06 02:34:34 AM

shower_in_my_socks: My grandfather was an engineer on the X-15 space plane, the Apollo Program, and the Space Shuttle. He passed away a few days ago. Wish I could call him and talk about this in the morning.

Unbelievable job. Didn't think it was possible. It's unfortunate that corrupt politics and an ignorant population are harming the future of our space exploration. Fewer bombs; more space missions.

Ooh, that sucks. Sorry for your loss, and the timing is indeed awful. I'd imagine he would have enjoyed seeing this.

make me some tea		2012-08-06 02:34:45 AM

shower_in_my_socks: My grandfather was an engineer on the X-15 space plane, the Apollo Program, and the Space Shuttle. He passed away a few days ago. Wish I could call him and talk about this in the morning.

Unbelievable job. Didn't think it was possible. It's unfortunate that corrupt politics and an ignorant population are harming the future of our space exploration. Fewer bombs; more space missions.

Awww sorry to hear about your grandfather. I'm sure he would've loved to watch this.

And yeah agreed, maybe this will give it a temporary bump. Need more like this. This is real good, hard feel-good stuff for this country.

StoPPeRmobile		2012-08-06 02:34:50 AM

JesterJoker55: I wonder how many people are going to realize just how impressive this year has been for space travel, both govt. and commercial.

Just this year we had a the first commercial cargo space flight dock with the ISS, We made HUGE strides in learning the potential habitation of other heavenly bodies, and now this big ol' badass mofo just arrived and is currently tearing ass around the red planet doing donuts and shiat.

Impressive is all i'll say.

Too bad we had the shuttle time sink.

Testiclaw		2012-08-06 02:34:56 AM

After years and years and years of working on a project, if I was one of those scienticians or engineers there I'd go home, get completely blasted, and cash in all of my vacation/comp time.

erveek		2012-08-06 02:35:01 AM

Mambo Bananapatch: I planned all week to watch this. My wife, who couldn't give a tinker's damn about space exploration, chose the very hour that it was happening to be all frisky. So of course I completely missed the Mars landing.

/no mere Mars landing could compete
//so the Mars landing went OK then? well that's great

Congratulations, Mr. Gorsky.

Poison Appleseeds		2012-08-06 02:35:15 AM

VRaptor117: So, I hate to be "that guy" but anyone want to speculate on how Fox News is going to spin this into a negative? Maybe something about "Mars is red like communism and Obumbo just sent the communists our most advanced rover technology." Or something.

Your reluctance to be "that guy" is correct; I only wish your reluctance had been strong enough to prevent you from bringing your petty politics and unfortunate cable news obsession into a thread about a monumental scientific and American achievement. If your life is so empty and consumed by infotainment media outlets that the only thought you have about witnessing a great achievement in human history is how a cable news channel that is viewed by 1% of the US population will react to it you sir are an idiot, and I feel sorry for you.

WhyteRaven74		2012-08-06 02:35:36 AM

Baron Harkonnen: and I can't find one anywhere.

Give it a little while, I'm sure there will be one.

Triumph		2012-08-06 02:35:50 AM

Two news stories from today explained government in a nutshell. NASA succeeded in landing an SUV on Mars and also Amtrak disclosed that it has lost almost a billion dollars on its food concession business. Government can fund startlingly successful things, but can't figure out how to turn a profit when it has a monopoly on selling sandwiches on trains.

Charlie Freak		2012-08-06 02:36:20 AM

stiletto_the_wise: platedlizard: I'm amazed. First they had the space stage. then it decoupled from the satellite. Then it entered the atmosphere. Then parachutes. Then the parachutes came off and it CAME DOWN WITH A SKY CRANE. Then the rover landed and cut through the cable connecting it to the sky crane. Then the sky crane flew off! At any point something could have messed up and ruined the entire mission, but it didn't. It didn't.

The parachute deployed at MACH 1.5 or so. That alone is freaking amazing.

I'm having issues with that - mach is a unit measuring the speed of sound in our atmosphere and is highly dependent on medium and temperature. In Earth's troposphere, as you go higher in altitude, temp decreases as does speed of sound. Actual dynamic pressure at any given Mach number, as measured by indicated airspeed, is much lower at higher altitudes because the lower atmopsheric pressure therein.

So, what exactly is 1.5 Mach in the Martian atmosphere in terms of actual dynamic pressure? Or is that figure an analog to what it would experience in our atmosphere (but, again, at what combination of temperature and pressure?).

In the end, Mach - the speed of sound, is kind of a shiatty measurement for anything other than shockwaves.

Apparently I'm not going to sleep any time soon.

TheManofPA		2012-08-06 02:36:23 AM

boomm: Did anybody get the judges' scores yet on that landing?

Other thread mentioned only a 9.5 from the German Judge

Enjoy the night all, the rover thread was pretty awesome. Good luck when the trolls from the ustream channel show up in here too.

roughridersfan		2012-08-06 02:36:35 AM

platedlizard: jack21221: platedlizard: TyrantII: Anyone know how far off target it was?

Less than a hundred meters, i think. they were pretty close to target.

I'm pretty sure I heard them say 2.6something before they cut away, and I assume that's kilometers. Still incredible.

That's probably more accurate than my number, which come to think of it I got before entry. They put her down on a nice wide flat plain in case of screwups, too.

A good show all around.

I thought at one point during the descent it was said they were estimating 10 metres off target, but I think they got closer because of the powered descent. Ticked me off they switched to the announcer during that important piece of information - she should have kept her mouth shut until she got that little bit of data.

crypticsatellite		2012-08-06 02:37:20 AM

clear_prop: crypticsatellite: I wish more people were as into the Mars landing tonight (not to mention other scientific endeavors) as they are into sports. I bet the world would be a different and better place if these things were given the same general importance as sports are given in our society. It's sad.

Times Square tonight:

[p.twimg.com image 816x612]

That was tonight and that is awesome, but scientific discoveries happen all the time and unfortunately, people flocking to Times Square for scientific discoveries/events is a rare event compared to them flocking to baseball/football/etc games every week.

surfingcow		2012-08-06 02:37:38 AM

TyrantII: Anyone know how far off target it was?

There was a report made during the entry that it was 262m off.

r1chard3		2012-08-06 02:37:45 AM

findthefish		2012-08-06 02:37:50 AM

My dad was an engineer on a camera for Skylab that studied the Sun's corona. I will be calling him tomorrow.

timujin		2012-08-06 02:38:18 AM

dualplains: timujin: Hah, I get to keep my job AND I got the green! Woohoo!

Grats, Timujin! Were you there?

Nah, my shift ended at 7:30pm, so I was watching it on NASA TV. Don't care, still farking AWESOME!

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