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Quoted: I doubt finding bacterial type life on Mars would have much affect on religious types, let alone have them lose their feelings of Big Daddies favorites. Now, it would be a different story had they found E.T. type aliens with the lighted tip colonoscopy finger. In that movie no one realized the alien was actually saying "Bend Over!" and that phrase in its language just happened to sound like "Phone Home!" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I don't doubt at all that there was and possibly still is life on mars. I think they found it with Viking and glossed over it / covered it up simply because the religious could not stand the thought of not being the center of the universe. Pretty much the same reason Galileo was strong armed by the Catholic Church over his figuring out how the solar system worked. I doubt finding bacterial type life on Mars would have much affect on religious types, let alone have them lose their feelings of Big Daddies favorites. Now, it would be a different story had they found E.T. type aliens with the lighted tip colonoscopy finger. In that movie no one realized the alien was actually saying "Bend Over!" and that phrase in its language just happened to sound like "Phone Home!" I have always wondered what a mindfuck it would be to find the ruins of an advanced, civilized but not necessarily spacefaring lifeform on Mars. That some cataclysm befell them. IMO bacteria either way wouldn't shock me and we are already pretty sure that no advanced life exists. But evidence of previous, long dead civilizations.... That would be a tough one. |
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Man NASA has gone woke. At least their marketing has. Hard to ever see a white man in any of the videos they stream.
Wokism usually ends in failure. Hope the mission is a success. |
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Quoted: I really don't care one way or the other as long as any life found there remains there. But you wait, if some life is found the weenies in the white lab coats will want to bring it back to earth "to study it". It will be a bad day to be human. https://lwlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/the-andromeda-strain-1971-1108x0-c-default.jpg View Quote |
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DRINKING GAME!
Take a drink every time you see a white man on screen. Guaranteed to be stone-cold sober all freaking day. |
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Come on, man. It only take about 8 minutes for the signal to reach earth. Where are the pictures already?
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Quoted: DRINKING GAME! Take a drink every time you see a white man on screen. Guaranteed to be stone-cold sober all freaking day. View Quote Watch the JPLRaw feed and you'll be drunk in 3 minutes. Much better feed IMHO. Mission Control Live: NASA Lands Perseverance Mars Rover (clean feed) |
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Quoted: Watch the JPLRaw feed and you'll be drunk in 3 minutes. Much better feed IMHO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4 View Quote |
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People still thinking there's more "out there". Maybe if we're talking dimensions but all those planets...they're empty. FOR NOW.
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If this lander was powered by words this thing could have gone to Uranus.
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Quoted: Man NASA has gone woke. At least their marketing has. Hard to ever see a white man in any of the videos they stream. Wokism usually ends in failure. Hope the mission is a success. View Quote There was a guy just on there that started explaining the rover with a Latino accent. His accent didn’t last long until it fell off completely. |
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Quoted: Watch the JPLRaw feed and you'll be drunk in 3 minutes. Much better feed IMHO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4 View Quote WHAT"S WTIH THE "restricted" LINK?????????????? |
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Quoted: WHAT"S WTIH THE "restricted" LINK?????????????? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Watch the JPLRaw feed and you'll be drunk in 3 minutes. Much better feed IMHO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4 WHAT"S WTIH THE "restricted" LINK?????????????? What are you talking about? |
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Quoted: Hasn't happened yet. OP messed up the time. Still another 45 minutes View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Come on, man. It only take about 8 minutes for the signal to reach earth. Where are the pictures already? Hasn't happened yet. OP messed up the time. Still another 45 minutes Two weeks! |
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That poor woman talking about in 15-20 years new scientists and engineers will get to study the core samples, she doesn't realize that in a world where 2+2=87 there won't be any scientists or engineers
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Quoted: Hasn't happened yet. OP messed up the time. Still another 45 minutes View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Come on, man. It only take about 8 minutes for the signal to reach earth. Where are the pictures already? Hasn't happened yet. OP messed up the time. Still another 45 minutes And there won't be livestream landing footage. But, it is being recorded. |
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Quoted: @Ironhandjohn They are even Endeavoring to Persevere on Mars! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: OP's landing time is a little off. "The Perseverance rover will land on Mars on Thursday at 3:55 p.m. EST (2055 GMT), but NASA's webcasts for the event actually begin today (Feb. 16) at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT). " @Ironhandjohn They are even Endeavoring to Persevere on Mars! Sacré Bleu!! |
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Quoted: I click on it, and the actual link, get the response of "restricted, must be approved to view this video" crap. I found a different link on the NASA website, so, at least we can watch, when the talking heads STFU... View Quote Works fine for me on the Roku, and Phone. I dunno..... They have over 100k watching. Attached File |
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Bet there is cheese and a rat trap on this one. Mars rat hungry.
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Quoted: That poor woman talking about in 15-20 years new scientists and engineers will get to study the core samples, she doesn't realize that in a world where 2+2=87 there won't be any scientists or engineers View Quote On the bright side, there will be plenty of Ow My Balls episodes to help you forget that there aren't any scientists or engineers. |
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In a couple of months we will be at the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard being the first American in space. Just 8 years later we were landing men on the moon.
Since then while Nasa has done some neat stuff it's nothing compared to what we did in the sixties. It's almost 52 years later and we can only put men in space by riding a Russian rocket or ones provided by an eccentric billionaire. I understand the difficulty of sending men, or now gender fluid people, across the vast distance to another planet but Nasa really needs to work on getting that excitement back. |
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Crew stage separation.
Spin down started. EI in less than 9 minutes. |
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Quoted: Braking: https://media1.tenor.com/images/477361426ebadcb7e3841673fb659226/tenor.gif?itemid=13859589 View Quote |
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View Quote The probe's drivin' down Highway 40 in a big ol' pickup truck! |
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It's down, didn't lawn dart, and telemetry is being received... Now let's see if some of those fancy cameras work...
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Awesome. Keep Wolowitz away from the controls. Rover and drone both.
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