Curiosity - Mars landing

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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:20 pm

We decided not to back the CSIRO in the 60's when they had projects leading computer design and architecture thinking. We could have built an industry. The POMs made the same mistake.

Propbably the biggest mistake I can think of.
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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:57 pm

One of these will be fun. Incredible flying hover bike lets you fly over desert like a Jedi. The future is going to be great for those with a little money.

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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by boxy » Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:34 pm

Rorschach wrote:Apparently there is something invented by an Australian "farmer" on board.
Any idea what?
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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:14 pm

boxy wrote:
Rorschach wrote:Apparently there is something invented by an Australian "farmer" on board.
Any idea what?
Circle-work.
But no crops.
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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Black Orchid » Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:03 pm

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YouTube user StephenHannardADGUK, part of a group called Alien Disclosure UK, who had caused a stir on the Internet last week after pointing out white ‘flying objects’ zooming across the Martian sky called attention to a collection of ‘mysterious’ items he spotted in a video from Gale Crater.

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A finger? :rofl
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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:24 pm

Fingers and footwear .... :rofl

I now see martians in the burns on my toast every morning. They are trying to tell us something.

The finger and footwear look familar.

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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:30 pm

Postcards from Mars show rover's key science targets.

Wow, this image looks alot like sedimentry layers we have on Earth. Shall be very interesting what they discover, beyond more fingers and footwear.

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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Rorschach » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:56 pm

Just wait till they find the "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Mod-u-la-tor"
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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:19 pm

Rorschach wrote:Just wait till they find the "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Mod-u-la-tor"
It's been found but it's a secret... shhhhhh.

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Re: Curiosity - Mars landing

Post by Super Nova » Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:52 am

Curiosity runs on plutonium from a Soviet-era nuclear weapons plant.

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