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Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:40 am
by Big Kahuna Burger
incredible
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:40 am
by Whiskey 7
mjrpes wrote:that shit was INTENSE
Yes indeed it was 'edge of the seat' stuff
I let out a cheer when they did on landing confirmation. Mighty stuff.
Well done to the thousands involved.
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:44 am
by fKd
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:44 am
by Tsakali
Still waiting for confirmation from Scared?
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:46 am
by losCHUNK
and so it begins
not really the picture youd use if you were e-baying something but im sure he has better
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:49 am
by Tsakali
woot, new wallpaper!
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:11 am
by losCHUNK
Hes getting better already
Cant wait for megatron to turn up
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:15 am
by +JuggerNaut+
Matthew Inman @Oatmeal
BREAKING: HIGH-RES PHOTO FROM CURIOSITY RELEASED
http://t.co/8JEopXY9
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:29 am
by Tsakali
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:41 am
by TruthfulLiar
lol brilliant
Mohawk guy is cool btw.
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:54 am
by Tsakali
just found it on the internets. the original didn't have that last caption or that terrible chop of the curiosity
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:55 am
by TruthfulLiar
thought u made it.
tineye didn't find it.
still dope as hell.
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:16 am
by LawL
Not funny in the slightest.
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:37 am
by TruthfulLiar
so i went on a valiant search across the internet in search of this image and i used tineye like any good person using another and did not find that exact copy but i do find a lesser copy and a link to the page hosting it, which happens to be xkcd, and then scroll through a few whatchamacallits and then see a link near the top of the page that says something about killer robots wiping out the human species before and i click the link and i am reading this response article written by the xkcd artist and then the webpage has frozen itself somehow within a tabbed window of my safari browser. i do not know how this could happen or that it did happen, ever, for anyone. i can no longer scroll up or down on the webpage. all other tabs and webpages are unharmed in this incident.
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:45 am
by Tsakali
"when you dig, all you get is dirty"

Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:23 pm
by obsidian
Google image search > Tineye
https://www.google.ca/search?tbs=sbi:AM ... d=0CEMQ9Q8
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:29 pm
by Plan B
Incredible.
Faith in humanity restored. A bit.
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:37 pm
by scared?
In 43 years weve gone from putting men on other worlds to rc cars?...
Lol we never went!...
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:55 pm
by seremtan
"rc car"
remote controlling a car with a signal that takes 20 minutes arrive

morons who don't understand physics

Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:02 pm
by xer0s
This whole project and achievement is amazing. But I find it depressing that it's not plastered on the front page of every paper in the world. Instead we have Kristen cheating on Rob...

Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:18 pm
by obsidian
Photo of Curiosity's parachute and capsule, taken from the MRO:

Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:23 pm
by xer0s
Hah! Will the parachute drag that capsule around?
Edit: Oh I thought that was the empty capsule and the parachute on the ground. Apparently that's during the landing...
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:47 pm
by Doombrain
xer0s wrote:Hah! Will the parachute drag that capsule around?
Edit: Oh I thought that was the empty capsule and the parachute on the ground. Apparently that's during the landing...
you do know this already happened, right?
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:52 pm
by andyman
Re: mars landing
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:18 pm
by Tsakali
everything went to near perfection.
just look at this image:
that oval was their target point, and they were trying to get it as close to that ditch as possible.
that fucker landed pretty close to the best case scenario from what I see