# Mars Rover Curiosity Landing
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 5, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058 "2012-08-05T07:11:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/61 "2012-08-09T10:15:07Z")
So nuclear power isn’t safe enough for us to use here, but it’s fine if we fire it off at some other planet.
When we eventually find intelligent life out there we’re going to find out that the galaxy really doesn’t like us. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/62 "2012-08-09T10:20:28Z")
Hippy ^^^
We should be nuking mars to send them a message that if anyones out there, they should probably just surrender.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/63 "2012-08-09T10:49:36Z")
The radio is PFM.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/64 "2012-08-09T10:51:30Z")
pure fucking magic?
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/65 "2012-08-09T10:51:50Z")
Yep.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/66 "2012-08-09T10:53:12Z")
🙂
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### Author:  [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/67 "2012-08-09T10:54:18Z")
[QUOTE=JayS;3384915]You don’t need science or calculations, just glue the corners and it will be fine.
Low blow man, low blow. I was just starting to like you too.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/68 "2012-08-09T11:36:26Z")
Now you see it…
Now you don’t…
> It landed on its own, meaning scientists had no control over where, exactly, it would wind up, what direction it would be pointed in or when it would snap its first images.
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> After all of those variables, the space junkies insisted, Curiosity had somehow snapped a photo of its chariot crash-landing a safe distance away, as planned. The camera shutter had been open for 200 milliseconds…
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> … The crime scene photo showed that the sky crane had crash-landed, as designed, about 2,000 feet away — and in the direction Curiosity’s rear was pointed toward when it snapped the first photo showing the blotch. The new photo also showed that the sky crane, when it crash-landed, kicked up a violent wave of dirt that had scarred the surface of Mars.
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> The impossible, it seemed, was possible.
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> “I don’t think you can rule it out,” Curiosity mission manager Michael Watkins said Tuesday. “It bears looking into.”
> **[Curiosity's mysterious Mars photo stirs speculation](https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-aug-08-la-sci-0808-mars-curiosity-photo-crash-20120808-story.html)**
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> Curiosity's mysterious Mars photo stirs speculation
> **[Has the Curiosity Mars conspiracy been solved? Scientists believe...](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185737/Internet-conspiracy-theories-begin-mystery-blotch-appears-Mars-rover-photo--disappears-hours-later.html)**
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> Conspiracy theorists have worked themselves up into a lather over a mysterious blotch visible in the first black and white photographs taken from NASA's new Curiosity rover as it landed on Mars.
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### Author:  [@juicedz4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/juicedz4)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/69 "2012-08-09T12:08:56Z")
[https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover](https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover) is crackin me up.
example: @SarcasticRover Who’s the genius who put the RADIATION DETECTOR on the ATOMIC ROBOT? All it does is BEEP constantly; I can’t shut it off!
Dan
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/70 "2012-08-09T12:30:57Z")
The past rovers had 3 antenna and used a UHF radio to communicate. The rover had to be in direct sight of earth to transmit. Not sure how much carried into this one.
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### Author:  [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/71 "2012-08-10T08:44:20Z")
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### Author:  [@Londonmax](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Londonmax)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/72 "2012-08-10T19:45:16Z")
> [@MOBOOST4U](#):
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> Hippy ^^^
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> We should be nuking mars to send them a message that if anyones out there, they should probably just surrender.
in4nukingmars
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/73 "2012-08-13T06:18:42Z")
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### Author:  [@karkas9](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/karkas9)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/74 "2012-08-13T09:37:18Z")
i dunno man the wheels look to0 small and tires got no profile so that thing is ganna get stuck in a pot hole. im saying that c’z i didnt see them testing it around on the streets where i live, u know wat i mean…
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### Author:  [@cobalt300z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cobalt300z)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/75 "2012-08-13T10:08:50Z")
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### Author:  [@karkas9](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/karkas9)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/76 "2012-08-13T14:28:23Z")
when you graduating from Harvard?
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### Author:  [@Tacoboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tacoboy)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/77 "2012-08-13T14:46:38Z")
> [@karkas9](#):
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> when **_ARE_** you graduating from Harvard?
fixed.
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### Author:  [@cobalt300z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cobalt300z)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/78 "2012-08-13T20:03:01Z")
The same day you can speak in proper sentences. Do you happen to be a part of 716racing? If so, it explains everything.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2012, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/79 "2012-08-14T08:28:06Z")
360 view: [http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#2398.33,90.00,110.0](http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#2398.33,90.00,110.0)
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/225058/80 "2012-08-14T11:22:31Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> 360 view: [Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 360 Panorama | 360Cities](http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#2398.33,90.00,110.0)
That’s fucking mind boggling for some reason. “Just looking around at the martian landscape on a Tuesday afternoon…”
:bloated:
I wonder if we’ll see a man on mars in our lifetimes? That seems like the natural next step, though a whole new world of challenges trying to keep someone alive and sane with a reasonable probability of success for a 10 year round trip.
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