Curiosity successfully tests laser gun - ready to kill alien cunts if they try any shit - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19314638[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]Nasa's Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock.[/B] The robot fired its ChemCam laser at a tennis-ball-sized stone lying about 2.5m away on the ground. The brief but powerful burst of light from the instrument vapourised the surface of the rock, revealing details of its basic chemistry. This was just target practice for ChemCam, proving it is ready to begin the serious business of investigating the geology of the Red Planet. It is part of a suite of instruments on the one-tonne robot, which landed two weeks ago in a deep equatorial depression known as Gale Crater. Over the course of one Martian year, Curiosity will try to determine whether past environments at its touchdown location could ever have supported life. The US-French ChemCam instrument will be a critical part of that investigation, helping to select the most interesting objects for study. The inaugural target of the laser was a 7cm-wide rock dubbed "Coronation" (previously N165). It had no particular science value, and was expected to be just another lump of ubiquitous Martian basalt, a volcanic rock. Its appeal was the nice smooth face it offered to the laser. ChemCam zapped it with 30 pulses of infrared light during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivered to a tiny spot more than a million watts of power for about five billionths of a second. The instrument observed the resulting spark through a telescope; the component colours would have told scientists which atomic elements were present. "We got a great spectrum of Coronation - lots of signal," said ChemCam principal investigator Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. "Our team is both thrilled and working hard, looking at the results. After eight years building the instrument, it's pay-off time." The first science target for ChemCam will be bedrock exposed on the ground next to Curiosity by the rocket-powered crane used to lower the vehicle to the crater floor on 6 August (GMT). Exhaust from this descent stage scattered surface grit and pebbles to reveal a harder, compact material underneath. The crane made four scour marks in the ground - two either side of the rover. These have been dubbed Burnside, Goulburn, Hepburn and Sleepy Dragon - names taken from ancient rock formations in Canadian North America. Goulburn Scour will be zapped by ChemCam once the mission team has reviewed fully the Coronation performance and results. [img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56934000/gif/_56934780_mars_sl_image624.gif[/img][/quote]

Woah I didn't know that thing had a laser gun. This just gets exponentially more interesting as the days go by.

That laser is amazing. One of the more incredible bits of kit that Curiosity has. Can vaporize and lend to the analysis of rock from meters away. And now, presumably, destroy our enemies.

Picture of the alien threat before it was eliminated [img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62353000/jpg/_62353667_62353666.jpg[/img]

Holy shit I didn' even knew it had lasers.

Makes you wonder what else is on the rover

This is some straight up star wars shit

Teach those martian rocks who is the boss!

We are Earth and we can remotely zap your shit from worlds away come at us alien bros

Successfully eradicate all martian opposition

[t]http://imgkk.com/i/y4xj.jpg[/t] President John Delano Clinton has declared an end to the combat mission on Mars, stating that NASA will now focus on rebuilding Mars and winning the hearts and minds of the rocks

[url]http://soundcloud.com/squidstorm/fight-back-with-lasers[/url] Time to plug in a fellow facepuncher for this momentous occasion!

Now to build the death star.

And the milky way will belong to earth, the best planet on earth! (just kidding, I'm not an actual factual idiot)

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBevX4NKgk[/media]

[QUOTE=smurfy;37321215][t]http://imgkk.com/i/y4xj.jpg[/t] President John Delano Clinton has declared an end to the combat mission on Mars, stating that NASA will now focus on rebuilding Mars and winning the hearts and minds of the rocks[/QUOTE] [img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/9708/mars_rr_path_big.jpg[/img] No hope in sight? Several rocks refuse to move after being given direct orders. The US Defense Department is considering negotiation with these rebel groups.

[QUOTE=Valdor;37321167]Makes you wonder what else is on the rover[/QUOTE] Mother fucking coffee machine for Chill Alien bros

Things like this make me wonder what we could find if we put an excavating robot up there.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;37321661]Things like this make me wonder what we could find if we put an excavating robot up there.[/QUOTE] Probably more rocks

A foot beneath the surface is one of those big glass domes and a city below. But really, curiosity has fucking las gun? Shit is hardcore

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;37321661]Things like this make me wonder what we could find if we put an excavating robot up there.[/QUOTE] We already did that back in '77. Viking 1 and 2 had arms that dug through the soil. But they only dug an inch or so into the dirt and analyzed it with their fancy "soil sniffer".

Poor rock..

[QUOTE=thisispain;37321394][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/9708/mars_rr_path_big.jpg[/img] No hope in sight? Several rocks refuse to move after being given direct orders. The US Defense Department is considering negotiation with these rebel groups.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/03/04/214808main_PSP_007338_2640_hires_wideweb__470x257,0.jpg[/img] Intelligence reports a massive ambush by the locals, in what they refer to as a 'rockslide'. Is the tide turning? More on the story at 7.

[QUOTE=brainmaster;37321728]We already did that back in '77. Viking 1 and 2 had arms that dug through the soil. But they only dug an inch or so into the dirt and analyzed it with their fancy "soil sniffer".[/QUOTE] I mean like something that can drill down 100-300 feet, see what's really down deep there.

[QUOTE=Andokool12;37321168]This is some straight up star wars shit[/QUOTE] In that case it must have taken Curiosity several tries to actually hit what it was shooting at.

[QUOTE=Valdor;37321167]Makes you wonder what else is on the rover[/QUOTE] Stripper poles and a speakeasy.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;37321822]I mean like something that can drill down 100-300 feet, see what's really down deep there.[/QUOTE] Anything able to drill down 100 feet of mars soil is probably way heavier than Curiosity.

FUCK MARS EARTH #1

The UN just recently condemned this unsanctioned attack

Earth wuz here.