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05-25-2008, 08:05 AM
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05-25-2008, 05:22 PM
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I'm gonna be watching this! |
05-25-2008, 05:56 PM
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05-25-2008, 05:57 PM
| | | Looks like they did it!  |
05-25-2008, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by RWP  Looks like they did it! | Yep!
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05-25-2008, 06:11 PM
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05-25-2008, 06:19 PM
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05-25-2008, 07:17 PM
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05-25-2008, 08:41 PM
| | | | Just saw the first pics from Phoenix. Man is Mars a desolate place. I know there are people that would volunteer to go there but why they would is beyond me. |
05-25-2008, 08:50 PM
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05-25-2008, 10:00 PM
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05-26-2008, 12:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | Wow I just looked at the first photos sent back, amazing! I don't know why but I always had the impression that Mars was really mountainous. Really great photos, pitty they aren't in colour though, that would be insane!!!
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05-26-2008, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ROON Wow I just looked at the first photos sent back, amazing! I don't know why but I always had the impression that Mars was really mountainous. Really great photos, pitty they aren't in colour though, that would be insane!!! | I had the same impression, Its kind of disappointing.
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05-26-2008, 12:03 AM
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05-26-2008, 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by ROON Wow I just looked at the first photos sent back, amazing! I don't know why but I always had the impression that Mars was really mountainous. Really great photos, pitty they aren't in colour though, that would be insane!!! | Dunno if it's "really" mountaineous, but they landed on the flat polar plain for a purpose - to drill for ice. You can already see the markings on the soil left by freezing/thawing cycles, from the photos the probe has sent since the landing. And besides, I can imagine it's very difficult to land on a rocky slope!
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05-26-2008, 08:26 AM
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05-26-2008, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by DigMe AAAAnndd....THERE....go....my.....tax....dollarsss ssssssssss....and..TOUCHDOWN!
bc | No disrespect, but I will NEVER understand this mindset. 
Yeah, it's not cheap, but when you compare the entire NASA budget to what is WASTED in one month in Iraq, it's a drop in the bucket. Further, there is actual, genuine useful knowledge gained from these types of missions. At the very least, discovering that either we live in the only place in the solar system that life has developed or that there are others is a huge thing to know. It really places us in the overall picture of the cosmos to have this information, and searching for it (which Phoenix is a large step in that direction) should be an imperative for us all.
The search for understanding is a part of being human, and the suppression of said desire is the sign of a culture that is at it's end. One of the reasons I am not too depressed and concerned about our country is that we still spend at least a very small slice of our GDP in pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Further, the desire to explore and expand is also part of being human, this is just one step on a ladder that will hopefully take us to the rest of the solar system and eventually to the stars as a species. Failing to do that is dooming the future of our species, as no single planet is secure enough a place to keep all of us - just ask our good friends the dinosaurs...
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05-26-2008, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Gard No disrespect, but I will NEVER understand this mindset.
Yeah, it's not cheap, but when you compare the entire NASA budget to what is WASTED in one month in Iraq, it's a drop in the bucket. Further, there is actual, genuine useful knowledge gained from these types of missions. At the very least, discovering that either we live in the only place in the solar system that life has developed or that there are others is a huge thing to know. It really places us in the overall picture of the cosmos to have this information, and searching for it (which Phoenix is a large step in that direction) should be an imperative for us all.
The search for understanding is a part of being human, and the suppression of said desire is the sign of a culture that is at it's end. One of the reasons I am not too depressed and concerned about our country is that we still spend at least a very small slice of our GDP in pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Further, the desire to explore and expand is also part of being human, this is just one step on a ladder that will hopefully take us to the rest of the solar system and eventually to the stars as a species. Failing to do that is dooming the future of our species, as no single planet is secure enough a place to keep all of us - just ask our good friends the dinosaurs... | BURN! |
05-26-2008, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Gard No disrespect, but I will NEVER understand this mindset.
Yeah, it's not cheap, but when you compare the entire NASA budget to what is WASTED in one month in Iraq, it's a drop in the bucket. Further, there is actual, genuine useful knowledge gained from these types of missions. At the very least, discovering that either we live in the only place in the solar system that life has developed or that there are others is a huge thing to know. It really places us in the overall picture of the cosmos to have this information, and searching for it (which Phoenix is a large step in that direction) should be an imperative for us all.
The search for understanding is a part of being human, and the suppression of said desire is the sign of a culture that is at it's end. One of the reasons I am not too depressed and concerned about our country is that we still spend at least a very small slice of our GDP in pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Further, the desire to explore and expand is also part of being human, this is just one step on a ladder that will hopefully take us to the rest of the solar system and eventually to the stars as a species. Failing to do that is dooming the future of our species, as no single planet is secure enough a place to keep all of us - just ask our good friends the dinosaurs... |
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