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  • mal 8 Aug 2012 23:45:53 20,536 posts
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    billythekid wrote:
    It's a pixel art curiosity
    Oops yeah, so it is. Was looking on my phone earlier and the image looked very weird.

    The mosaic shots all have orientation marks in them. They're like the things on crash test dummies heads (also orientation marks fwiw).

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  • ecureuil 8 Aug 2012 23:49:44 74,192 posts
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    Shouldn't be too long before we start to get colour images.
  • Razz 9 Aug 2012 11:35:01 57,937 posts
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    Ah... reddit.

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  • ecureuil 9 Aug 2012 14:51:46 74,192 posts
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    http://imgur.com/a/glI58

    Fixed lighting.
  • Ged42 9 Aug 2012 14:59:55 7,408 posts
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    The dark photos look really arty.

    I see them as symbolic of the lonely delicateness of the machine, one of man's greatest technological achievements, against the brutal harshness of the Martian wastes.
  • LeoliansBro 9 Aug 2012 15:03:54 35,125 posts
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    Blows me away.

    That shit's on MARS son.

    LB, you really are a massive geek.

  • Fake_Blood 9 Aug 2012 15:21:06 2,993 posts
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    Hmm, shouldn't that wheel be straight in line with the other wheels QUESTIONMARK.
  • Chopsen 9 Aug 2012 16:42:30 13,728 posts
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    Maybe it's turning a corner.

    Thanks for expressing interest in my signature!

  • muttler 9 Aug 2012 16:42:30 3,209 posts
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    Interesting piece on MSL on Material World on Radio 4 now, probably worth listening on iplayer if you've missed it, there some interesting stuff about the geology and science stuff.
  • mal 9 Aug 2012 16:56:03 20,536 posts
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    Billy_Sastard wrote:
    Lol, I'll never look at Curiosity the same again.

    Meh, it's clearly Johnny 5's bigger brother.

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  • Ka-blamo 9 Aug 2012 17:32:37 6,455 posts
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    LeoliansBro wrote:
    Blows me away.

    That shit's on MARS son.
    I got excited over the first rover on mars in the 90s, people are acting like they sent a man there or something.

    It's full of new equipment and lasers that'll attempt to discover if there was ever life on mars, there won't be and it'll be as useful(less) as the other 5 rovers already there. Granted this will hopefully send HD pics back.

    I'm just angry as Im not on this planet long and I'd like to see larger leaps regarding space and planets that are more exciting. China need to step it up and get America more competitve in space, the Americans wold land a man on the sun if it means doing it before China.

    If the curiosity digs up a martian skull i take it all back.

    Edited by Ka-blamo at 17:35:15 09-08-2012
  • Ged42 9 Aug 2012 18:23:44 7,408 posts
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    A message from Carl Sagan to future colonists of Mars.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syVD6blTXN8&hd=1

    And another picture.

    In glorious panoramic technicolour

    Edited by Ged42 at 19:24:08 09-08-2012
  • damagedinc 9 Aug 2012 19:58:05 316 posts
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    They arent going to find anything mind blowing are they :-(
  • SolidSCB 9 Aug 2012 20:18:58 4,534 posts
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    You never know. If they do find signs of past life, however small, the entire book gets thrown out. If there are two places in a single Solar System that support(ed) life, then our galaxy is obviously abundant with it. Hopefully they find something, because we really need to get our arses in gear. We seem content to just live out our days as a species sucking this planet dry at the moment.
  • mal 9 Aug 2012 22:20:26 20,536 posts
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    There's so much information locked up in those cliffs it's almost impossible that they won't find anything cool there. Perhaps not mind blowing, but I guess that depends on your definition. The fact it took us hundreds of years to interpret the cliff records on our own planet and we're planning to do the same in a matter of weeks on an alien world is itself pretty cool.

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  • Bremenacht 9 Aug 2012 22:45:40 11,256 posts
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    The fact that all the problems in getting there safely were surmounted, and that it might confirm the presence of the chemicals required to sustain human life and send humans back to earth again, could be hugely significant for human exploration outside of Earth's orbit.

    The possibility of humans landing on Mars has (probably) got a wee bit closer.

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  • SolidSCB 9 Aug 2012 22:52:27 4,534 posts
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    I just hope it happens in my lifetime.
  • Ged42 9 Aug 2012 23:06:45 7,408 posts
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    I'm hoping that if we don't have a person on Mars by the time I die. They develop the technology to my brain in a robot body, then i'm getting my shiny metal arse to Mars.
  • Fab4 10 Aug 2012 07:26:06 5,310 posts
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    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
  • damagedinc 10 Aug 2012 09:05:01 316 posts
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    Well im still banking on it finding the three breasted lady
  • Fake_Blood 10 Aug 2012 10:37:31 2,993 posts
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    Fab4 wrote:
    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
    We can't even keep our own planet under control, let alone terraforming Mars.
  • sport 10 Aug 2012 10:39:33 10,904 posts
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    Fake_Blood wrote:
    Fab4 wrote:
    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
    We can't even keep our own planet under control, let alone terraforming Mars.
    Imagine if Curiosity finds oil /o\
  • megastar 10 Aug 2012 10:41:48 16,919 posts
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    sport wrote:
    Fake_Blood wrote:
    Fab4 wrote:
    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
    We can't even keep our own planet under control, let alone terraforming Mars.
    Imagine if Curiosity finds oil /o\
    That would be fantastic! Imagine the money that would be invested? we'd have men on the surface of Mars within 10 years if we found oil!
  • Deckard1 10 Aug 2012 10:55:19 18,131 posts
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    I'd give my right bollock for a space baboon attack.
  • Salaman 10 Aug 2012 11:01:54 16,605 posts
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    megastar wrote:
    sport wrote:
    Fake_Blood wrote:
    Fab4 wrote:
    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
    We can't even keep our own planet under control, let alone terraforming Mars.
    Imagine if Curiosity finds oil /o\
    That would be fantastic! Imagine the money that would be invested? we'd have men on the surface of Mars within 10 years if we found oil!
    I doubt it. What good is oil all the way out there. Going there to get it and then bring it back would be stupid expensive. There's oil reserves here in earth we're not tapping into because the cost of extracting it is too high.
  • Fab4 10 Aug 2012 12:13:16 5,310 posts
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    Fake_Blood wrote:
    Fab4 wrote:
    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
    We can't even keep our own planet under control, let alone terraforming Mars.

    Yeah, but what if we promise not to break this new one? :D
  • sport 10 Aug 2012 12:26:33 10,904 posts
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    Salaman wrote:
    megastar wrote:
    sport wrote:
    Fake_Blood wrote:
    Fab4 wrote:
    Would be cool if they could terraform it remotely and then have the humans rock up.
    We can't even keep our own planet under control, let alone terraforming Mars.
    Imagine if Curiosity finds oil /o\
    That would be fantastic! Imagine the money that would be invested? we'd have men on the surface of Mars within 10 years if we found oil!
    I doubt it. What good is oil all the way out there. Going there to get it and then bring it back would be stupid expensive. There's oil reserves here in earth we're not tapping into because the cost of extracting it is too high.
    Didn't you watch "The Core":

    "Getting through Space is easy! It's empty!" - Aaron Eckhart

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