Curiosity on Mars

[Blips]

The next rover sent needs to be equipped with some kind of ground penetrating radar. Map out any underground hollows. Rover after that needs to be a giant drill and needs to just run around drilling holes in the planet.

(I'm really curious about what kind of stuff is beneath the martian surface)

[KWhit]

I want to see some fossils!

[Clay]

I want to see some fossils!

How quickly do you think a manned mission would come together if we found fossils?

[Alan Dunkin]

Recent hi-res self portrait:



--- Alan

[garin]

Cool picture, but how did it take it? Where is the camera arm?

Maybe it's a composite of multiple shots?

[Blips]

Cool picture, but how did it take it? Where is the camera arm?

Maybe it's a composite of multiple shots?

How the hell am I supposed to sleep tonight now? I'll be doing nothing but trying to figure this out.

Did he simply put his camera on something with a timer like many-a-tourist?
Did he ask a local to take the shot for him?
Completely plausible explanation #3?

[Alan Dunkin]

It's a compilation of 55 images. You can't see where the image is taken from because it's at the far end of an arm that's pointing directly at the camera.

--- Alan

[John Many Jars]

PROOF THAT IT'S ALL FAKE THE WORLD IS FLAT AND THERE ARE NO PLANETS ALL THE SPACE MONEY GOES TO OBANAS SHARIA LAW FUND

[Sarkus]

Exactly. That's clearly the Mojave and those are footprints just the left. ;-)

[Houngan]

I read that as "space monkey" and suddenly wanted my own Sharia fund.

[spacemonkey]

I read that as "space monkey" and suddenly wanted my own Sharia fund.

You can't have it! It's MINE!

[Houngan]

You can't have it! It's MINE!

Dude! Sorry.

[Alan Dunkin]

Mentioned in another thread but apparently Curiousity has discovered... plastic.

http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html

--- Alan

[Coca Cola Zero]

Brought to you by the same guy behind the Big Foot in New Orleans hoax.

[Houngan]

Mentioned in another thread but apparently Curiousity has discovered... plastic.

http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html

--- Alan

Wait, is this another one of those fucking "We'll post a story that's plausible but false, then laugh at people who take us seriously" sites?

[Alan Dunkin]

Wait.. aw fuck.

I didn't even pay too much attention to the URL or the image when I posted it (I assumed the image was "faked" but as an artist's rendering or something). Sigh.

I'm pretty angry at myself actually.

--- Alan

[Houngan]

Wait.. aw fuck.

I didn't even pay too much attention to the URL or the image when I posted it (I assumed the image was "faked" but as an artist's rendering or something). Sigh.

I'm pretty angry at myself actually.

--- Alan

Don't feel bad, I got caught twice recently on politics sites. Fuck these people in the ear.

[jeansberg]

Yep, that one caught me too. I did Google it and didn't find anything anywhere else, which was the first indication. Also, the URL is pretty suspicious as it ends in press.html instead of "articleid.html". I guess I really wanted to believe it.

[ineffablebob]

Building a Rover of the Edible Kind

The folks at the California Institute of Technology have built another Mars rover, but this one will never get to leave Earth. Not surprising, really, since it's made of gingerbread.