Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Panorama of Its New Martian Home
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[QUOTE=Turnips5;37175658]along with the other pictures of mars, yes. I swear some people are acting as if we've never taken a picture of mars from the surface before[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but it's still cool. For those of you who haven't seen him, here's some pictures from Mars taken within the past decade or so.
[t]http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/50597/601409/mars_nasa1_o.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.cambridge.org/resources/0521872014/3513_plate_7copy.jpg[/t]
[t]https://images.nonexiste.net/popular/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Reddit-this-is-mars-In-three-days-one-of-the-most-advanced-pieces-of-technology-of-our-time-will-have-landed-on-it-s-surface-let-s-wish-the-curiosity-luck-guys.jpeg[/t]
[t]http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/929/Victoria%20Crater%20on%20Mars.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175683]you can be poetic about it from a distance
maybe the occasional tour
more than that and you're just going to ruin it for everyone[/QUOTE]
I guess, but I don't really see what there is to ruin in the first place. it's a big, giant desert, no wildlife or anything. it just seems like a waste.
I want to go to Mars
[QUOTE=Turnips5;37175658]along with the other pictures of mars, yes. I swear some people are acting as if we've never taken a picture of mars from the surface before[/QUOTE]
Every picture of Mars is amazing. We've been here for a good 100,000 years banging rocks and sticks together and only in the past 50 give or take have we been able to take photographs from the surface of another planet. That's monumental in my book. This is happening in your generation, your tiny window of life in humanity's life span. Every picture from mars should blow your fucking mind. Same can be said about most of our technical inventions in this era. Flight? Flight is pretty insane on it's own but flight to another planet? That's ridiculous.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175683]you can be poetic about it from a distance
maybe the occasional tour
more than that and you're just going to ruin it for everyone[/QUOTE]
What's to ruin? It's an inhospitable wasteland for all known forms of life. At worst, we never colonize it because it's too difficult. At best, we successfully colonize and terraform (to an extent), and life would then exist on a planet that would never have it otherwise, and we simultaneously guarantee our continued survival as a species.
[QUOTE=Cone;37175706]I guess, but I don't really see what there is to ruin in the first place. it's a big, giant desert, no wildlife or anything. it just seems like a waste.[/QUOTE]
we'll find someway to ruin it.
i'm thinking advertisements and red light districts.
[QUOTE=Cone;37175706]I guess, but I don't really see what there is to ruin in the first place. it's a big, giant desert, no wildlife or anything. it just seems like a waste.[/QUOTE]
You can easily ruin a desert, it's so bleak and open and beautiful. If there were buildings and people everywhere it would ruin it with clutter
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175683]you can be poetic about it from a distance
maybe the occasional tour
more than that and you're just going to ruin it for everyone[/QUOTE]
Mars can't really get much worse at this moment. It already has no magnetic field and get's bombarded by radiation on a daily basis. There's nothing humans could do to it at this point that would do anything harmful.
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[QUOTE=thisispain;37175732]we'll find someway to ruin it.
i'm thinking advertisements and red light districts.[/QUOTE]
Well in that case you're probably right, Humanity has a tendency to do that sort of thing. But that doesn't mean we should wait for death on this planet.
[url]http://www.popsci.com/files/675227main_pia16029-full_full.jpeg[/url]
For those in ausfailia
[QUOTE=OvB;37175722]Every picture of Mars is amazing. We've been here for a good 100,000 years banging rocks and sticks together and only in the past 50 give or take have we been able to take photographs from the surface of another planet. That's monumental in my book. This is happening in your generation, your tiny window of life in humanity's life span. Every picture from mars should blow your fucking mind. Same can be said about most of our technical inventions in this era. Flight? Flight is pretty insane on it's own but flight to another planet? That's ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
All of what you're saying here is true and I agree 100%.
[QUOTE=OvB;37175722]Every picture of Mars is amazing. We've been here for a good 100,000 years banging rocks and sticks together and only in the past 50 give or take have we been able to take photographs from the surface of another planet. That's monumental in my book. This is happening in your generation, your tiny window of life in humanity's life span. Every picture from mars should blow your fucking mind. Same can be said about most of our technical inventions in this era. Flight? Flight is pretty insane on it's own but flight to another planet? That's ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
And yet, so few people appear to care. It's bizarre how indifferent the general public seems to be in its attitude towards space.
I'm not usually impressed (mostly not interested) in these space type thing, but...damn, a ground level picture of a planet so far away...puts things into perspective.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175423]no that's the last thing mars needs.
people.[/QUOTE]
lol I bet all those greenhouse gasses are really hurting Mars hard, we wouldn't want to make more riiiight?
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Well in that case you're probably right, Humanity has a tendency to do that sort of thing. But that doesn't mean we should wait for death on this planet.[/QUOTE]
well you're very keen to jump ship. i think it's only logical that we shouldn't stick around if we can't manage to get by on our planet. just by principle.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175806]well you're very keen to jump ship. i think it's only logical that we shouldn't stick around if we can't manage to get by on our planet. just by principle.[/QUOTE]
On the other hand, if something catastrophic were to happen to Earth...I mean, that's it. We'd all be gone, never to continue.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175732]we'll find someway to ruin it.
i'm thinking advertisements and red light districts.[/QUOTE]
but advertisements are the result of large companies, which themselves contribute to the world-wide economy - one of the most intricate and complex systems in the world, capable of shifting entire nations based on a simple miscalculation. even a red-light district is just a particularly exploitative example of our natural aptitude for business.
businesses and the things they produce may be a testament to our uninhibited and self-centered nature, but they also speak volumes about how driven people truly are.
[QUOTE=Cone;37175834]but advertisements are the result of large companies[/QUOTE]
you're making me hate this concept even more
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175806]well you're very keen to jump ship. i think it's only logical that we shouldn't stick around if we can't manage to get by on our planet. just by principle.[/QUOTE]
you're saying the entirety of humanity should die out because of something the vast majority of people had little or no control over?
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;37175636]As much as I love humanity, we really do plague this earth.[/QUOTE]
Nomatter what we do, no amount of damage is even slightly comparable to what goes on in the universe.
We could nuke every living thing on this planet to extinction, and it still pales in comparison with the limitless destructive power of the universe.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;37175904]Nomatter what we do, no amount of damage is even slightly comparable to what goes on in the universe.
We could nuke every living thing on this planet to extinction, and it still pales in comparison with the limitless destructive power of the universe.[/QUOTE]
that's like saying a few murders here and there don't hurt because hitler killed WAY more people.
[QUOTE=prooboo;37175781][url]http://www.popsci.com/files/675227main_pia16029-full_full.jpeg[/url]
For those in ausfailia[/QUOTE]
It doesn't work for us, the .com just changes to .com.au. and the page cannot be found.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;37175882]you're saying the entirety of humanity should die out because of something the vast majority of people had little or no control over?[/QUOTE]
it's thisispain, that's exactly what he's saying
don't even bother
[QUOTE=Turnips5;37175882]you're saying the entirety of humanity should die out because of something the vast majority of people had little or no control over?[/QUOTE]
preferably humanity would not die out.
[QUOTE=lotusking;37175925]that's like saying a few murders here and there don't hurt because hitler killed WAY more people.[/QUOTE]
that'd only work if Hitler did actually kill everyone on the face of the planet, and then some. that's the kind of scale the universe works on.
besides, it's not saying that they wouldn't hurt (i.e. that they're basically a benign thing) but that they're ultimately irrelevant in the face of a much larger tragedy.
[QUOTE=Badballer;37175932]It doesn't work for us, the .com just changes to .com.au. and the page cannot be found.[/QUOTE]
Does this one work? It's basically the official source.
[url]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16029.jpg[/url]
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175961]preferably humanity would not die out.[/QUOTE]
I'm just saying, give us more time and we can be better people
there are people alive today who remember a time when black people couldn't vote. we can always improve
[QUOTE=thisispain;37175806]well you're very keen to jump ship. i think it's only logical that we shouldn't stick around if we can't manage to get by on our planet. just by principle.[/QUOTE]
Personally, I only think it's logical that if a race manages to set up camp on a planet that has virtually no access to vital materials (food, water, air) and many hazards (toxic dust, radiation, supply trouble), then it deserves everything it has.
Besides, the only way to truly never run out of resources, is to never actually use them in the first place.
I love Martian landscapes, they're all really beautiful.
Also my dad insists that the government is faking it. Shut up and let me dream, seriously!
[QUOTE=Turnips5;37176021]I'm just saying, give us more time and we can be better people
there are people alive today who remember a time when black people couldn't vote. we can always improve[/QUOTE]
that's a nice science fiction-esque concept, but it's likely that if anyone populates the mars it will be large companies with huge budgets.
if you thought corporate control over people was bad now it'll just get worse.
i just don't buy utopianist philosophies about space. it didn't work on earth.
[QUOTE=lotusking;37175925]that's like saying a few murders here and there don't hurt because hitler killed WAY more people.[/QUOTE]
Except you're better off comparing hitler to a carebear. The universe as we know it is that much of a destructive bitch.
Nuking the shit out of our planet or wiping out our entire solar system wouldn't even be noticeable on the big picture. And that still wouldn't be comparable to a blackhole, supernova or stuff like that.
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