• NASA: It's Time to Look for Life on Mars
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[QUOTE=Zeke129;23427088]It's not like you'd be mining by hand. You'd get all sorts of cool fucking equipment and shit.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't mind controlling a laser that blast through rocks, to make room for civilization. Mars here I come!
Thread music mother fuckers :pcgaming: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5sWfhkpE0&NR=1[/media]
[QUOTE=bravehat;23427967]Thread music mother fuckers :pcgaming: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5sWfhkpE0&NR=1[/media][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Janus Vesta;23417348][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5sWfhkpE0[/media][/QUOTE] :colbert:
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Fuck Yes
[QUOTE=Zeke129;23419358]Imagine watching a live feed, the rover is driving through a cave, it rounds an corner, and bam. Huge underground lake with little bugs flying around and huge ferns everywhere.[/QUOTE] That'd be an amazing find
[quote=x-quake;23400318]if i am alive and able when the time comes, i would be so up for life as a colonist on mars.[/quote] stop right there miner!
"The wait is finally over" Hooray :smile:
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;23406403]Now let's take a moment to thank Obama for saving America's space program regardless of what the media says. [editline]08:46PM[/editline] Wait a second, why does the probe have an RTG? (Radioisotopic Thermoelectric Generator) Wouldn't it make more sense to add a couple of photovoltaics with some god-damn wipers?[/QUOTE] The MSL rover is HUGE. Photovoltaic just don't cut it for this one, no matter how clean they are. [img]http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/robots_03_04/r32_mslr.jpg[/img] ...and that's just the chassis. compared to other rovers (scaled models): [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mars_Science_Laboratory_mockup_comparison_.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=petieng;23443424]The MSL rover is HUGE. Photovoltaic just don't cut it for this one, no matter how clean they are. [img_thumb]http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/robots_03_04/r32_mslr.jpg[/img_thumb] ...and that's just the chassis. compared to other rovers (scaled models): [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mars_Science_Laboratory_mockup_comparison_.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Sweet rover of dover, I didn't know that thing will be this big. :iia:
[QUOTE=rosthouse;23400139]Your avatar = my reaction [/QUOTE] Same ^ Finally! After a long wait for NASA to do something like this.
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