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cool pic from Curiosity.

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If I didn't already know NASA called curiosity a 'she', I'd think this thing just sent us a picture of its nuts.

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JulesMaximus said:
Oh, I don't know... the fact that mankind built it and it is currently roaming around and exploring another planet?
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We've been doing that for 40 years and taking pictures then too.

Even moon landings from later Apollo's got stale to the American public after it started to seem "easy" because it was the same thing over and over again for a decade.

The real interest in this mission was really the fact that it was shown that we had a viable way to put heavier than what we are used to machinery on mars. Everything after than is just more science experiments.
 
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NikolaeVarius said:
We've been doing that for 40 years.

Even the moon landings got stale to the American public after it started to seem "easy" because it was the same thing over and over against for a decade.

The real interest in this mission was really the fact that it was shown that we had a viable way to put heavier than what we are used to machinery on mars. Everything after than is just more science experiments.
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Nothing to the extent of Curiosity though. Curiosity is of a 'new era'.

It kinda looks like it's eyes are wide open in shock.
 
OutHouse said:
that is not the purpose of the OP posting the pic.



like i said i don't get it.
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image this is looking at the ass end of curiosity. those 2 big circular things could be considered nuts? like its testicles?

To me, it also looks like the two cameras are eyes, and the rover is shocked at what it just saw.
 
NikolaeVarius said:
We've been doing that for 40 years and taking pictures then too.

Even moon landings from later Apollo's got stale to the American public after it started to seem "easy" because it was the same thing over and over again for a decade.

The real interest in this mission was really the fact that it was shown that we had a viable way to put heavier than what we are used to machinery on mars. Everything after than is just more science experiments.
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That's because people are, for the most part, just a bunch of self-absorbed morons. Americans especially.
 
ichy said:
The moon landings took place over a 3 & 1/2 year period.
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Forgot that the manned ones stopped in 72. I wasn't thinking and was including all the unmanned ones that happened afterward.

Same concept though. You don't ever hear about any of the other Apollo's after 11. Apollo 13 sure, but I doubt many people know which Apollo the golf balls were hit or which Apollo had the Astronauts driving the car. In the span of 6 missions tons of stuff involving new experiences by humans happened, but nobody ever says anything about that. This was all happening in the span of 3.5 years of experimentation.

Meanwhile, we've had 40 years of mars exploration, and hell, even the Viking probes were taking pictures of themselves. It's hard to get excited about the same pictures that we've seen for those 40 years. I'm excited about the tech possible with the sky crane, but most everything else is stuff we've already seen before. Just on a more advanced scale. The lasers and stuff that we've never been able to use before is pretty cool and I can get excited on an individual basis on those technologies. But a self portrait? Meh.
 
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NikolaeVarius said:
Forgot that the manned ones stopped in 72. I wasn't thinking and was including all the unmanned ones that happened afterward.

Same concept though. You don't ever hear about any of the other Apollo's after 11. Apollo 13 sure, but I doubt many people know which Apollo the golf balls were hit or which Apollo had the Astronauts driving the car. In the span of 6 missions tons of stuff involving new experiences by humans happened, but nobody ever says anything about that. This was all happening in the span of 3.5 years of experimentation.

Meanwhile, we've had 40 years of mars exploration, and hell, even the Viking probes were taking pictures of themselves. It's hard to get excited about the same pictures that we've seen for those 40 years. I'm excited about the tech possible with the sky crane, but most everything else is stuff we've already seen before. Just on a more advanced scale. The lasers and stuff that we've never been able to use before is pretty cool and I can get excited on an individual basis on those technologies. But a self portrait? Meh.
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Apollo 15,16, and 17 where the extended J class missions that used the Lunar Rover. A lot science got done on those missions with total EVA times of over 20+ hours. Compared to 11 that spent around 2 1/2 hours on the surface in a single EVA. Apollo 17 landed the first Geologist on the moon. But I digress.

What I find interesting is the improving resolution of the pictures as more and more advanced cameras get to Mars and can take higher resolution photos than have ever been taken before. Looking forward to more great photographs.
 
Brovane said:
Apollo 15,16, and 17 where the extended J class missions that used the Lunar Rover. A lot science got done on those missions with total EVA times of over 20+ hours. Compared to 11 that spent around 2 1/2 hours on the surface in a single EVA. Apollo 17 landed the first Geologist on the moon. But I digress.

What I find interesting is the improving resolution of the pictures as more and more advanced cameras get to Mars and can take higher resolution photos than have ever been taken before. Looking forward to more great photographs.
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IMHO, these are the first photos from a rover that are high res enough, and clear enough, to truly feel 'real'.
 
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