Curiosity has landed safely. It’s sent back pictures. I’m watching a room full of laughing crying hugging partying engineers.
Aug 05 2012
They did it!
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Aug 05 2012
Curiosity has landed safely. It’s sent back pictures. I’m watching a room full of laughing crying hugging partying engineers.
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Sheila Crosby
August 5, 2012 at 11:16 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Whoot!
I think they said that they landed 220 m away from the spot they planned.
I just bruised my chin on the floor.
Sheila Crosby
August 5, 2012 at 11:18 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oh, and all NASA photos are free to use as long as you give them credit. So here’s Curiosity’s shadow. https://p.twimg.com/Azl7WkmCEAAYwIK.png
By NASA and JPL, obviously.
Sheila Crosby
August 5, 2012 at 11:20 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Just seen a tweet: “The nerds just took Gold in the 560 billion metres.”
Josh Slocum
August 5, 2012 at 11:23 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And I’ve been unable to shut off the water-works for a good hour. So amazing. What an unbelievably wonderful thing it is to be able to see this. Hats off, NASA and everyone involved. Bask in glory.
davidmc
August 5, 2012 at 11:43 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
A bit teary, but that could be the time, 5.45 am, bit of a shock to the system.
StevoR
August 6, 2012 at 12:00 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes!
Wheels and shadows upon the sands of Mars and Curiosity has arrived safely at its new home. Only the beginning of its long odyssey and couldn’t be a happier, mor elating (word?) start!
Congratulations to all those involved.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth•
August 6, 2012 at 4:05 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
What a momentous event.
Everyone involved with this project across the planet should pat themselves on the back.
Now if they could only find a nice spot on the Red Planet for us to ship all the religious zealots, right wing radio hosts and MRA’s to…
cathyw
August 6, 2012 at 6:12 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Now if they could only find a nice spot on the Red Planet for us to ship all the religious zealots, right wing radio hosts and MRA’s to…
No. They can’t have it. Because I’m going and I don’t want them cluttering up my shiny new planet, darnit.
julian
August 6, 2012 at 6:24 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Here! Here!
That future settler mixing martinis while watching Phobos and Deimos dance around the night sky had better not be some bigot fuck.
Your Name's not Bruce?
August 6, 2012 at 7:10 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This is so cool! Just shows you what primates can do when they put their brains together. I can hardly wait ’til they post the images from the descent. Way to go!!!
Marie-Thérèse O'Loughlin
August 6, 2012 at 8:10 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Powerful stuff altogether. I’ve been reading the beeb’s excellent detailed coverage on amazing landing of Curiosity Rover on the red soil of Mars. It helps enormously to understand exactly what is happening in Mars.
@7: Now if they could only find a nice spot on the Red Planet for us to ship all the religious zealots, right wing radio hosts and MRA’s to…
Would you really fancy putting them on a “nice spot’? I’d much rather select the least nicest spot for the zealots, etc, as I wouldn’t want to make them too comfortable on the Red Planet. They might just take over.
Ophelia Benson
August 6, 2012 at 8:40 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Was that fun or what.
dailydouq
August 6, 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
How about Titan so they can see what a cold day in hell looks like. Or better yet to Venus, the exemplar of science conspiracy, global warming, so they can taste sulfuric acid before they’re cooked.
Rogi Riverstone
August 6, 2012 at 1:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thoughts: Curiosity on Mars
http://youtu.be/XbkkVKBgTr8
I was going to write an opinion piece about Curiosity, landing on Mars. But others addressed my position better than I, so here they are.
CREDITS
Music:
“Simon Says Don’t”
By Kevin MacLeod
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-
free/
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“NASA & Federal Budget”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
http://youtu.be/7i2QDpGRQKc
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Carl Sagan message to Mars
http://youtu.be/syVD6blTXN8
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“Curiosity Land on Mars”
Final hour here
http://youtu.be/SJXFnMoMt10
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FaceBook Screen Captures:
Native American Culture
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
Native-American-Culture
/119586531411438
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Curiosity Mission to Mars:
Your Tax $ @ work
'Tis Himself
August 6, 2012 at 1:44 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
+1
Rrr
August 7, 2012 at 12:26 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sorry, cannot resist:
First picture from Mars
(Not my site.)
Ophelia Benson
August 7, 2012 at 12:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ha!!! You know whose site that is? Christer Sturmark’s. I know him – he’s the head of the Swedish publisher Fritanke, which published doesgodhatewomen, also the editor of the magazine Sans and pres of Humanisterna. He’s a swell guy.
Rrr
August 7, 2012 at 12:44 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes, I do know
One part of why I found it so funny. Oh, maybe I’m from Mars… Haven’t met him myself, though.
Ophelia Benson
August 7, 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ah! Well it is funny, as is the campaign ad joke.