We just landed on Mars!

[thegezman]

Spirt the Mars Exploration Rover has sucessfully landed on mars. it's air bags are deflating as we speak.

I know this cause i work at the DSN tracking station in Tidbinbilla Canberra.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Originally posted by thegezman
Spirt the Mars Exploration Rover has sucessfully landed on mars. it's air bags are deflating as we speak.

I know this cause i work at the DSN tracking station in Tidbinbilla Canberra.

Word to look out for in those paragraphs..

as 'we' speak

 

[thegezman]

sorry

i should have said talk to myself.

my bad.

i guess people care more about celeb crushes and topless beaches this days, rather than exploring another planet.

sign of the times i guess.

nevermind

 

[rfctigerarmy]

lol I was just joking.. I havent seen the news today so yea its great news!

* btw, correct on the second point

 

[Kildonan]

I'm impressed.

I didn't expect to find this out here first

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by thegezman
Spirt the Mars Exploration Rover has sucessfully landed on mars. it's air bags are deflating as we speak.

I know this cause i work at the DSN tracking station in Tidbinbilla Canberra.

Well that's something you don't hear everyday! This thread is a little out of place among some of the other stuff posted today, but it was interesting.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Re: sorry

Originally posted by thegezman
i should have said talk to myself.

my bad.

i guess people care more about celeb crushes and topless beaches this days, rather than exploring another planet.

sign of the times i guess.

nevermind

Dude, priorities..

We're still searching for intelligent life at a Showdown, without looking for microbes on another world.

 

[Korn]

come on let's find some aliens

 

[Lady Lawrence]

Can someone please explain to me why this is such big news. I am being very serious here. What difference does it make if there is water on Mars or if there is some kind of life? Will it help us cure cancer, bring world peace etc etc?

I really fail to find anything that makes me think it is worth the billions and guzzillions of dollars spent on space research globally. Imagine what use this money could be put too!

I would really appreciate hearing from somone that really knows what they are talking about as to why it is so important to discover all this about Mars, or why we went to the moon etc etc.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by Lady Lawrence
Can someone please explain to me why this is such big news. I am being very serious here. What difference does it make if there is water on Mars or if there is some kind of life? Will it help us cure cancer, bring world peace etc etc?

I really fail to find anything that makes me think it is worth the billions and guzzillions of dollars spent on space research globally. Imagine what use this money could be put too!

I would really appreciate hearing from somone that really knows what they are talking about as to why it is so important to discover all this about Mars, or why we went to the moon etc etc.

If Mars can support life then the rich people can escape after their companies pollute the Earth to unihabitability. Didn't you know about that conspiracy?

 

[demon_69]

Re: sorry

Originally posted by thegezman
i guess people care more about celeb crushes and topless beaches this days, rather than exploring another planet.

Yes, you got me there. As much as I find a robot landing on another planet interesting. I find topless beaches alot more interesting. What good can seriously come from this? I can think of alot of good things can come from a topless beach, I'll have memories that will last a life time with me.

 

[Damp Squarie]

Re: Re: sorry

Originally posted by Docker_Brat
Dude, priorities..

We're still searching for intelligent life at a Showdown, without looking for microbes on another world.

LOL -heh heh Ill pay that.

Thats great news.
One small step for Rover...goodluck Fido

 

[steve_rat]

Originally posted by Lady Lawrence
Can someone please explain to me why this is such big news. I am being very serious here. What difference does it make if there is water on Mars or if there is some kind of life? Will it help us cure cancer, bring world peace etc etc?

I really fail to find anything that makes me think it is worth the billions and guzzillions of dollars spent on space research globally. Imagine what use this money could be put too!

I would really appreciate hearing from somone that really knows what they are talking about as to why it is so important to discover all this about Mars, or why we went to the moon etc etc.

why do we send people to the moon.. why do we have philosophers..

the world employs so many people to discover and explore just because we can.. we want to find out about where we live.. what else is there.. what else can there be.. thirst for knowledge.. we want to know more.. mars landing is good for man kind... sorta.. its good anyway

top news mate.. so what took it so long?

steve rat

 

[Damp Squarie]

Originally posted by Lady Lawrence
Can someone please explain to me why this is such big news. I am being very serious here.

Because its there mlady!!

 

[Ghostwriter]

Did they find the other one that crash landed there the other day or has Nasa conveniently forgotten about that multi million dollar stuff up.?

 

[USAEagle]

Originally Posted by Jozeph.....

Did they find the other one that crash landed there the other day or has Nasa conveniently forgotten about that multi million dollar stuff up.?

___________________________

European Space Agency.

 

[Santos L Helper]

Capricorn One?!

We aren't even close.

 

[Milkman]

Re: sorry

Originally posted by thegezman
i guess people care more about celeb crushes and topless beaches this days, rather than exploring another planet.

Maybe not celeb crushes, but certainly topless beaches.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by USAEagle
Originally Posted by Jozeph.....

Did they find the other one that crash landed there the other day or has Nasa conveniently forgotten about that multi million dollar stuff up.?

___________________________

European Space Agency.

Wasn't that a British probe? Like George Michael or Prince Charles?

 

[Korn]

we might find a rock on mars that can cure cancer.

 

[Kildonan]

Originally posted by Lady Lawrence
Can someone please explain to me why this is such big news. I am being very serious here. What difference does it make if there is water on Mars or if there is some kind of life? Will it help us cure cancer, bring world peace etc etc?

I really fail to find anything that makes me think it is worth the billions and guzzillions of dollars spent on space research globally. Imagine what use this money could be put too!

I would really appreciate hearing from somone that really knows what they are talking about as to why it is so important to discover all this about Mars, or why we went to the moon etc etc.

Firstly, it disappoints me that you even have to ask this sort of question. Maybe if you had phrased it differently - like how do we justify allocating such huge amounts of money towards research and exploration of other planets when we have what might be considered more pressing problems here on Earth?

Secondly, do you realise that without reseach we wouldn't have the life we have today. There would be no electricity to run your hairdryer, no medicine to cure your headaches, no wheel, no fire.

Research in its various forms allows us the chance to seek answers to achieve understanding. Without understanding, without full knowledge of how things work, how do you think we can achieve the goals that the scientists have been set. These goals are the goals of our society.

We need to understand other parts of the universe in order to have a more complete picture of our little part of it.

If there is life elsewhere, how does it work? Is the way we have evolved on Earth the only way that life can evolve? If not what are the differences? Is life on Mars based on DNA? Are there only four base pairs in this DNA? Is there ways of doing things biochemically that we haven't achieved here on Earth.
There are so many things that we don't know and need to, to understand why things are the way they are here.

I could go on, but ... have you no awe or wonder in discoveries made off of our world?

 

[thegezman]

Can someone please explain to me why this is such big news. I am being very serious here. What difference does it make if there is water on Mars or if there is some kind of life? Will it help us cure cancer, bring world peace etc etc?

so you would have rather it crashed and burned would you? going by your logic you should be happy it landed and can complete it's mission.

I'm no scientist so can't argue that well the benefits of the mission, but without exploration and science we would still think the world is flat.

Mars was not that dissimilar to earth millions of years ago (and more than likley had many life forms), but for some reason one day it's make up changed dramitcially. We are trying to understand why, this is one reason.

I really fail to find anything that makes me think it is worth the billions and guzzillions of dollars spent on space research globally. Imagine what use this money could be put too!

Was it your money we spent? no i don't think it was.
You don't think the money spent on death and destruction everyday on earth should be saved put towards a better cause?
I think you need to adjust your perspective and try not to look at everything in a negative light.

The same scientists that fix you cancer patients are the ones that put planes in the sky, humans on the moon and rovers on Mars. Modern Science, Technology, Research and Education provide this.

NASA for your information don't simply send chunks of metal into orbit.

For instance space exploration and research may aid cancer research -


At least one common disease-causing microbe becomes more virulent in simulated microgravity. Scientists studying this phenomenon hope to gain a better understanding of infectious disease.

"Whenever you see the virulence of a microbe change in response to an environmental stimulus, that's a chance to learn something about how that pathogen causes disease," says Cheryl Nickerson, an expert in microbiology and immunology at Tulane University Health Sciences Center.

Nickerson and her colleagues hope that studying these changes could point out new ways to combat "bad" microbes with drugs and vaccines, both for the sake of astronauts exposed to extra-virulent microbes and for people here on the ground. Using modern advances in biotechnology and the weightlessness provided by the International Space Station (ISS), they will explore the changes in gene expression experienced by microbes in the true weightlessness of spaceflight.

if your interested on more info just on the NASA labs follow this link www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalab/index.html

 

[skilts]

Originally posted by jozeph
Did they find the other one that crash landed there the other day or has Nasa conveniently forgotten about that multi million dollar stuff up.?

Were there any fatalities or injuries? Just updating the holiday period accident statistics.

 

[skilts]

I tend to agree with Lady Lawrence on this issue.

If someone had discovered that 'Ma's' mobile food van, which used to operate outside Flinders St Station, had made a reappearance, I'd be more interested.

 

[FIGJAM]

Re: sorry

Originally posted by thegezman
i guess people care more about celeb crushes and topless beaches this days, rather than exploring another planet.

It's my understanding from my knowledge of Mars*, that the women there have three breasts, so carry on your search!

*Note: Knowledge limited completely to Total Recall.