The Space Thread

[Blue]

Bwoa dang, Curiosity is nuclear powered?

That girl's gonna run for miles and miles.

[Doom Shepherd]

Yeah, it might be the last for a while. we're running out of plutonium to power the RTG's, because of hippies and also stupid Congresscritters fighting over which subcommittee gets to be in charge.

[J.C.]

Ladies and gentlemen, Curiosity is on the martian surface.

 

After traveling for nine months, the minivan-sized mobile laboratory pulled a James-Bond-like landing on the red planet, and is safely on the ground. The first images are here.

 

 

 

 

From the robot's twitter account (yeah, it has a twitter account, we're talking about a very hip probe here):

 

"FYI, I aim to send bigger, color pictures from Mars later this week once I've got my head up & Mastcam active #MSL."

 

This is seriously awesome. Human knowledge and engineering pushed to the limit. Like it should be. Just think a about it: we now have a 900 Kg, nuclear-powered, state-of-the-art mobile laboratory, 350 million kilometer away, on another freaking planet.

 

I'm really glad it all worked out.

[Pinkie Pie]

Saw the stream, thought it was pretty cool when everyone celebrated and was happy and everything. I get up mid-celebration to get some food, come back, everyones all srs face again talking about readings and stuff.

 

murrica

[Chuckthe2nd]

 

 

 

Murricuh indeed.

[Martin]

[Vapymid]

OMG!

 

 

 

 

Regards