NASA Curiousity landing live stream

very epic. Go NASA!

I believe this is our 4th Mars landing but this lil rover is gunna give us so much data its gunna be awesome. its basically a mobile science lab that can perform tons and tons of tests and explore.
 


20figures said:
NASA - NASA Television in High Definition on UStream

I know none of you useless fucks realize it or not, but one day we'll have to find another habitable planet to live on after the sun has run its course. Enjoy.
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Our sun isnt due to burn out for about 5 Billion years, the chances of humans still existing at that point has got to be very, very low.

Also, if the sun did burn out, we'd need to find another solar system where we could live not just another planet. As the sun turns into a white dwarf it'd more than likely consume most of its surrounding planets... even if it didn't, none of them would be habitable by us without the sun.


I know what you mean though, we DO need to explore and find other habitable planets, and missions like this one are just a stepping stone in a long journey to get to that point.

I really do commend NASA for the work they are doing, and while i dont like a lot of the things the US gov gets up to, this is one of the things that i think is money well spent.

I can't see a greater cause in the world than the advancement of the human species, exploring and using science to try and make sense of the universe in which we live.
 
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jryan21 said:
Here's a cool video about the plans for the first manned mission to Mars, and how it can lead to colonization:

The Mars Underground [HD] - YouTube
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A good watch, thanks.

Sadly it is apparent that he still doesn't know what he's fighting against.... I must have said "poor bastard" a good dozen times while watching that. :(

I think the only way we cold settle Mars would be to overthrow a large number of governments first... Then again, China may want to own mars outright so perhaps they'll get over there first and come to stay.
 
first pictures are starting to come in:
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another picture:

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rear view, looking back at rim of crater:
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Dark Cognitive said:
Our sun isnt due to burn out for about 5 Billion years, the chances of humans still existing at that point has got to be very, very low.

Also, if the sun did burn out, we'd need to find another solar system where we could live not just another planet. As the sun turns into a white dwarf it'd more than likely consume most of its surrounding planets... even if it didn't, none of them would be habitable by us without the sun.
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I just used the sun example as a definitive "hard" timeline. We have NO longer than 5 billion years to get our shit together. However I am certain that some event will happen before then, long, long, long before then that will threaten our species. The earth is 4 billion years old and it's already happened 6 times before. Doing some elementary math that says odds are we only have 666 million years left before our card comes up.

So yeah, I agree with you. Also I wasn't insinuating we would inhabit another planet in our solar system at all, I should have clarified that. We're already looking a lot further than that. It's going to be extremely rare to locate nearby Goldilocks planets but it's only a matter of time.

And this is just guesswork by myself, but by the time we can realistically go and terraform another Goldilocks planet I imagine there will be those of us who just choose to live in space, by then we would have perfected creating our own food in labs and built massive ships capable of supporting a massive population. Even that far in the future, (yes hundreds of thousands of years) I still see a very tiny (miniscule) group of religious people that choose to stay and vanish along with the earth and the rest of our solar system.

But when talking about these kinds of things it's all hypothetical. All I know is this was a big step in the right direction and hopefully it helps to inspire a new generation of scientists like the moon landing did. (not comparing the significance of the two)
 
So cool, although I would never want to work for a government agency, NASA sure would be intriguing to say the least. Who doesn't want to build cool shit that goes into space?
 
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