We just landed on Mars

Where is my earth shattering kaboom?

BearMtnHIB wrote: Yea yea yea- heard all that BS crap before- It's all Bushes fault!

Obama could have funded the shuttle program for a few more years- it OBIVIOUSLY has not outlived it's usefulness- since we now have to pay Russia for rides into space.

What a bunch of horseshit- Obama whacked the shuttle program, pure and simple.

We now have no way to launch a human into space.
Pitiful.

You should have spoken up when Bush set the plan in motion, knowing we would be without launch capability after the shuttle was retired.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, who led NASA under Bush, privately blamed the Bush White House in internal emails in 2008 for launching a “jihad” to retire the shuttle without giving NASA the authority and funds to simultaneously replace it.

Personally, I'm sick and tired of wasting money on orbital trips year after year. We send up one or two astronauts to man the space station. Big deal. So what if we pay the Russians a few million, compared to the $450 million it cost us for each shuttle launch? We're saving more than a billion dollars a year doing it this way.

Who would ever have envisioned that the greatest space exploration carried out by the U.S would have been in the 60s and 70s, at the urging of long dead Democratic president. That was 50 years ago.

Now, China is moving ahead with its manned space program like gangbusters.

Deja Vu?

Not like this is the first rover we have had on Mars.

This rover is an iron man compared to the other three and it's the first time we landed one where scientists actually wanted to land one. The first three were landed in flat areas to ensure the success of the landings, rather than in targets that are rich in scientific data.

The first rover was the size of a microwave oven. This one is the size of an SUV.

Curiosity price tag $2.5 billion. The US military spends that in 33 hours. The US population spends that on potato chips every 4 months...

Raees wrote: This rover is the size of an SUV.

:VeryScared: Oh noes! Martian Global Warming! NASA SUV's warming up the red planet.

FredHayek wrote:

Raees wrote: This rover is the size of an SUV.

:VeryScared: Oh noes! Martian Global Warming! NASA SUV's warming up the red planet.

Except it's probably solar powered. Maybe that vehicle will take the place of the Volt... slow as hell and just a few million dollars to build.

Andromeda strain? I wonder if NASA plans to release hardy Earth organisms on Mars surface to see if life can exist on the planet. IIRC, one of the previous mssions took Martian soil and put it in a soup to see if dormant life would revive.

Man, you guys will bitch about ANYTHING.

CritiKalBill wrote:

FredHayek wrote:

Raees wrote: This rover is the size of an SUV.

:VeryScared: Oh noes! Martian Global Warming! NASA SUV's warming up the red planet.

Except it's probably solar powered. Maybe that vehicle will take the place of the Volt... slow as hell and just a few million dollars to build.

It's actually nuclear powered.

Or, for conservatives... nuk ku lar powered.

rofllol