OT: NASA Puts Rover on Mars

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There are only two kinds of Halloween costume on Mars. "Rock" and "Sexy Rock." #marsissexist

 

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Pale Blue Dot is a brilliant speech. And the book is very interesting, too.

 

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DAMMIT DS, WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE????

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for the history books," but we'll have to wait a few weeks to find out what the new Red Planet find may be, media reports suggest.

The discovery was made by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, NPR reported Tuesday, Nov. 20. SAM is the rover's onboard chemistry lab, and it's capable of identifying organic compounds — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it.

SAM apparently spotted something interesting in a soil sample Curiosity's huge robotic arm delivered to the instrument recently.


"This data is gonna be one for the history books," Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in Pasadena, told NPR. "It's looking really good."


Grotzinger said the rover team won't be ready to announce just what SAM found for several weeks yet, NPR reported. The scientists want to check and double-check the results, to make sure they're for real.

Mars mystery: has Curiosity rover made big discovery? | Fox News


Quit being mountain man, and go back to being science man to explain all this to me!

 

[Darkstone42]

DAMMIT DS, WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE????



Mars mystery: has Curiosity rover made big discovery? | Fox News


Quit being mountain man, and go back to being science man to explain all this to me!

They're just doing exactly what they say they're doing. They need to be sure before they'll publish the findings.

 

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They're just doing exactly what they say they're doing. They need to be sure before they'll publish the findings.

Yeah, but what do YOU think they discovered that would be "for the History Books"?

Water, life, all the missing socks from the dryer, Hoffa???

 

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Yeah, but what do YOU think they discovered that would be "for the History Books"?

Water, life, all the missing socks from the dryer, Hoffa???

I imagine it has to be some significant organic molecule.

 

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I imagine it has to be some significant organic molecule.

Well, they have already stated that no methane has been detected yet in the atmosphere, and that the rover has yest to use it's drill, so it would have to be something found in the loose soil that it collected?

Are you excited by all this SportsHoopla?

 

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I imagine it has to be some significant organic molecule.

Thank goodness Martians don't use conventional farming techniques.

Yeah, IPW - I'm very excited by it. I was about 90% sure they'd fine some signs of water/life on Mars, but cool when/if they confirm it.

 

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Yeah, IPW - I'm very excited by it. I was about 90% sure they'd fine some signs of water/life on Mars, but cool when/if they confirm it.

I hear Arizona is already adding this new life to their illegal immigration law.

 

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I hear Arizona is already adding this new life to their illegal immigration law.

LOL. Wait, those weren't the aliens they were looking for?

 

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I always thought of the Universe as a giant petri dish that is controlled and influenced by a "higher power."

I believe that life exists elsewhere just like it does here, but the conditions are different to test how life evolves and what they do as they advance in technology, just like us.

The distance is always great enough apart so that one experiment can never tamper or interfer with another one.

I hope the asshole who got this Universe gets an F.

 

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Well, they have already stated that no methane has been detected yet in the atmosphere, and that the rover has yest to use it's drill, so it would have to be something found in the loose soil that it collected?

Are you excited by all this SportsHoopla?

Of course!

I'll be on Twitter every day for a while, waiting for the announcement.

 

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Proof that Life on Mars exists:

 

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1 year, and 352,000,000 miles ago

 

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Proof that Life on Mars exists:

Thank you for posting that and not this: