I had forgotten about this until earlier today - Curiosity will be landing on Mars tonight/tomorrow, depending where you're at, at around 10:30 PST. Do you plan to watch the landing?
Curiosity lands tonight on Mars!
08/05/2012
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I want to watch, but it's happening after midnight local time. The chances of my making it are 50/50, probably less since I just had a glass of wine.
08/05/2012
I had no clue lol
08/05/2012
I had no idea either. Thanks for letting us know about this!
08/05/2012
I didnt know about this either.
08/05/2012
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Grr, I voted "No, but I'm following the rover on Twitter", but honestly I will probably just read the news later.
Originally posted by
Sammi
I had forgotten about this until earlier today - Curiosity will be landing on Mars tonight/tomorrow, depending where you're at, at around 10:30 PST. Do you plan to watch the landing?
08/05/2012
I may check it out later on the net...
08/05/2012
I am sooooo excited about this. Please find some effing aliens...??????
08/05/2012
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Same here... ^^
Originally posted by
Master DarkWolf
I may check it out later on the net...
08/05/2012
08/05/2012
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Oooh coool!!!!! I have time to check it out!
Originally posted by
Sammi
I had forgotten about this until earlier today - Curiosity will be landing on Mars tonight/tomorrow, depending where you're at, at around 10:30 PST. Do you plan to watch the landing?
08/06/2012
Sweet sweet net streams
08/06/2012
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I should be ashamed of myself. I haven't even heard about it! I guess not watching TV or listening to the radio or being on FB in a month has really gotten to me. Lol. At least I know now.
Originally posted by
Sammi
I had forgotten about this until earlier today - Curiosity will be landing on Mars tonight/tomorrow, depending where you're at, at around 10:30 PST. Do you plan to watch the landing?
08/06/2012
I also hadn't heard about it (I tend to kind of live under a rock, I keep having to re-remember it's an election year) but it's exciting! I'll have to read about it in the morning, though.
08/06/2012
I'm not interested to be perfectly honest.
08/06/2012
I dont care
08/06/2012
More billions of our tax dollars wasted. After dozens of probes nothing has been found - and nothing will be. There is no way to effectively protect astronauts from blasts of solar radiation from a massive solar flare or coronal mass ejection. Are we ready for fried astronauts?
08/06/2012
millions of tax dollars wasted
08/06/2012
Fried astronauts? It's already happened — Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia…
Why keep going? Security… Economics… but I think it's mostly because as a people we are curious and we like a challenge. What's out there? We want to know.
This commentary is a few years old, but the writer eloquently expresses a viewpoint I agree with.
AskMen offers a more bullet-like list of reasons why.
@Sammi
I watched it in bed on a tablet during the wee hours of the night.
Why keep going? Security… Economics… but I think it's mostly because as a people we are curious and we like a challenge. What's out there? We want to know.
This commentary is a few years old, but the writer eloquently expresses a viewpoint I agree with.
AskMen offers a more bullet-like list of reasons why.
@Sammi
I watched it in bed on a tablet during the wee hours of the night.
08/07/2012
I forgot it was on tv but I'm not overly interested in it, I'll look at some of the news about it at a latter date.
08/07/2012
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I watched the live stream! It was so exciting for me!
Originally posted by
Sammi
I had forgotten about this until earlier today - Curiosity will be landing on Mars tonight/tomorrow, depending where you're at, at around 10:30 PST. Do you plan to watch the landing?
08/07/2012
I watched the live stream! I'm a huge space nerd.
08/07/2012
did not watch it, I read about it the next day.
08/07/2012
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The cost of Curiosity was $2.5billion, while NASA's overall budget is $18billion. That sounds like a lot, but, as I've previously stated on another thread, that amounts to 0.5% of the US Federal budget. Billions have been wasted - but in other areas, not the space program. link
Originally posted by
Gunsmoke
More billions of our tax dollars wasted. After dozens of probes nothing has been found - and nothing will be. There is no way to effectively protect astronauts from blasts of solar radiation from a massive solar flare or coronal mass ejection. Are we
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08/08/2012
I had so much other stuff going on that finding time to sit in front of the tv just didn't happen. I am sure it was really neat to see though!
08/08/2012
I love space exploration, but I missed seeing any footage of this. I'll need to look it up online.
08/08/2012
It seemed silly to me to watch intently... watching nothing. We wouldn't have anything to see for a while after it landed. Voila! Next day, photos, and a 40 second video. Works for me.
08/09/2012
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Agreed. It's mainly a way of feeling socially included. Knowing that there are thousands of other people concentrating on this one thing, at this one time, can increase social bonds.
Originally posted by
amazon
It seemed silly to me to watch intently... watching nothing. We wouldn't have anything to see for a while after it landed. Voila! Next day, photos, and a 40 second video. Works for me.
08/10/2012
agreed, its an event, shared with others ...watching highlights the next day is like arguing against going to concerts when you can listen to the radio or eating out when you have food in the fringe.
08/10/2012
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Very few things that show the POSITIVE capability and AMAZING reach of humans, when we have a GOAL, and when we AIM to do big things. GO NASA. The gifts you have given us all...from our TEFLON PANS, to our GPS, to the ability to watch a TV show from Europe (the Olympics) as it happens or to be able to call grandma in Australia on a cell phone the size of a pack of playing cards, or to simply SAVE LIVES because we can SEE when a storm is coming......What a BANG for the buck we have gotten from NASA unlike ANYTHING ever done by humans!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by
Sammi
I had forgotten about this until earlier today - Curiosity will be landing on Mars tonight/tomorrow, depending where you're at, at around 10:30 PST. Do you plan to watch the landing?
08/12/2012
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