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A little after 10:30pm PDT NASA's new rover Curiosity settled safely onto the red planet. Exciting live coverage from JPL via NASATV. The first images from the rover have already been received and show good resolution and detail.

Good job, NASA!

Ongoing coverage at www.nasa.gov

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Originally posted by Suzianne
A little after 10:30pm PDT NASA's new rover Curiosity settled safely onto the red planet. Exciting live coverage from JPL via NASATV. The first images from the rover have already been received and show good resolution and detail.

Good job, NASA!

Ongoing coverage at www.nasa.gov
This will only piss off the Martians and make them invade!! 🙁

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I think it's high time we explored Uranus. 😕

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Originally posted by Suzianne
A little after 10:30pm PDT NASA's new rover Curiosity settled safely onto the red planet. Exciting live coverage from JPL via NASATV. The first images from the rover have already been received and show good resolution and detail.

Good job, NASA!

Ongoing coverage at www.nasa.gov
waste of taxpayer dollars

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how so?

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Originally posted by tim88
waste of taxpayer dollars
Once you give your money to the government its no longer taxpayers dollars, its the
governments dollars.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
how so?
Patents out the ying-yang, numb nutz. Science, you MAY have heard of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Once you give your money to the government its no longer taxpayers dollars, its the
governments dollars.
it's and government's.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
it's and government's.
apostrophe pedant!

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Originally posted by tim88
waste of taxpayer dollars
Bah. It's still a lot cheaper than landing a platoon of tinheads in Mazar-al-Sharif.

Richard

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Patents out the ying-yang, numb nutz. Science, you MAY have heard of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
Didn't Nasa spend zillions of dollars researching a pen that could write in zero gravity
while the Ruskies used a pencil, numb nutz? Some of these assertion are ludicrous,
like water purification from, sweat and urine, like thats gonna benefit us, how?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
water purification from, sweat and urine, like thats gonna benefit us, how?
It would improve the taste of European beer. 😛

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
It would improve the taste of European beer. 😛
😀

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Originally posted by Suzianne
A little after 10:30pm PDT NASA's new rover Curiosity settled safely onto the red planet. Exciting live coverage from JPL via NASATV. The first images from the rover have already been received and show good resolution and detail.

Good job, NASA!

Ongoing coverage at www.nasa.gov
Great!! I hear Mars has a lot of rocks, red ones. That should keep the scientists busy for years.