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Post 701

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

times to smiley - chick

err! sorry! times to duck
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/


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Post 702

KWDave

Along about 0600 hours GMT on Monday, NASA will attempt the most boondoggling, mind-bending rover landing ever attempted on Mars:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/05/mars-rover-curiosity-closing-in-on-red-planet-at-8000-mph/

smiley - magic


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Post 703

KWDave

...and the video link I meant to include above (scroll down the page past the survey)

http://www.space.com/16917-mars-rover-curiosity-lands-today.html

smiley - facepalmsmiley - magic


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Post 704

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

it's landed spot-on targetsmiley - magicand sent pictures back of it's tyresmiley - ermsmiley - ermsmiley - ermitsmiley - winkeyecould have done that before it wentsmiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 705

KWDave

They did it! That was just crazy. And you're right about the tire...

smiley - magic


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Post 706

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

landing a 1 ton "truck" umpteen and odd million miles away onto a site about as big as a football fieldsmiley - coolsmiley - cool


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Post 707

KWDave

Never mind the thousand-odd other fails they could have had - all it would take to scratch the whole thing is one degree off on trajectory at atmospheric entry.

Epic rocket science!

smiley - magic


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Post 708

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

true! so truesmiley - smiley

the building of it and everything else, the programming etc from start to landing must go down as one of the greatest mankind achievements eversmiley - magic


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Post 709

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19145020

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/


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Post 710

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

click on the curiosity part smiley - cool


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Post 711

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/slideshow/2012/08/06/curiosity-tweets-photos-from-surface-mars/#slide=6

what it would look like landing
(more slides)


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Post 712

KWDave

I know everybody is enjoying the Perseids, but this is funny:

http://youtu.be/QFvNhsWMU0c

Nothing wrong with a little silliness, right?

smiley - magic


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Post 713

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

I got my Perseid fix at 3am yesterday morning, for once I wasn't cursing my bladder!smiley - laugh

Now have a smiley - galaxylooksee: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19266284


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Post 714

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

bugger! as per = cloud as per = every bloody year as per = smiley - grr


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Post 715

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120815-galaxy-massive-nature-stars-groups-clusters-space-science-phoenix/

they only thought it could happen in theorysmiley - laughnow this has got them talkingsmiley - laugh


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Post 716

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - tekcorhttp://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120813.html

smiley - rocket


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Post 717

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/19344614

there's some hungry suns about eh! smiley - biggringood job ours is on a dietsmiley - erm


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Post 718

KWDave

This is interesting:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1211/

smiley - magic


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Post 719

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - bigeyesGreat minds, I have published that on my Facebook today, before I read your post!smiley - laugh


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Post 720

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - candlehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098smiley - peacesign

smiley - sadface

smiley - moonsmiley - rocket


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