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PSA: Mars Rover Curiosity Landing! 08/05/2012 10:31 PDT...

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Wow some awesome pics! It's quite surreal to consider that those are pics of the surface of another planet. Really with what they did, they could easily put a man there if they really wanted to. They just don't really have a reason to as it's better to just put something you don't have to worry about getting back safely.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wow some awesome pics! It's quite surreal to consider that those are pics of the surface of another planet. Really with what they did, they could easily put a man there if they really wanted to. They just don't really have a reason to as it's better to just put something you don't have to worry about getting back safely.
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Not quite, for a man you will need,: a life support system, food and water for 18 months, an ascent module big enough to return the crew to orbit, a command module capable of sustained operation for the trip to and back..
 
Number1 said:
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This pic won't display in Chrome (21.0.1180.75 m) but shows just fine in IE. Anybody else is having this issue?
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Worked for me in 21.0.1180.60 m

I just updated to 21.0.1180.75 m.

We'll see...

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Damn. Not working.

16GB RAM here.

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Closed tab and re-opened with Ctrl+Shift+T and it loaded.
 
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BUTCH1 said:
Not quite, for a man you will need,: a life support system, food and water for 18 months, an ascent module big enough to return the crew to orbit, a command module capable of sustained operation for the trip to and back..
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And a way to keep him from losing his mind from being stuck alone in a very confined space for 18 months.


People are indeed a real pain in the ass to send somewhere alive. 🙂

No oxygen for a few minutes: dead.
Too hot or cold for a few minutes or hours: dead.
No water for a few days: dead.
No food for a few more days: dead.

Robot: Sure, lock me up in a tiny pod in a vacuum for a few months. No problem.
 
Jeff7 said:
And a way to keep him from losing his mind from being stuck alone in a very confined space for 18 months.


People are indeed a real pain in the ass to send somewhere alive. 🙂

No oxygen for a few minutes: dead.
Too hot or cold for a few minutes or hours: dead.
No water for a few days: dead.
No food for a few more days: dead.

Robot: Sure, lock me up in a tiny pod in a vacuum for a few months. No problem.
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Agree, imagine being confined like that for the 8-9 month trip each way, then all the systems would have to have multiple backup systems to avoid another space tragedy where a mars bound vessel suffered a major breakdown and the crew perished. If we can advance propulsion methods to cut it down to say 3 weeks each way then yea, I'm all for it but using what's available now, just don't do it IMO..
 
BUTCH1 said:
Agree, imagine being confined like that for the 8-9 month trip each way, then all the systems would have to have multiple backup systems to avoid another space tragedy where a mars bound vessel suffered a major breakdown and the crew perished. If we can advance propulsion methods to cut it down to say 3 weeks each way then yea, I'm all for it but using what's available now, just don't do it IMO..
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Three weeks would kill the astronaut during acceleration or deceleration...not to mention we don't have anything that could withstand debris impacts at that speed. That would be incredibly fast. 2-3 months would be more realistic.
 
BUTCH1 said:
Not quite, for a man you will need,: a life support system, food and water for 18 months, an ascent module big enough to return the crew to orbit, a command module capable of sustained operation for the trip to and back..
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Yeah was not taking into account the life support equipment and what not mostly just the physical act of it. While it's probably possible with the technology available it's just not practical. I think the way they're doing it now with rovers is much better.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Yeah was not taking into account the life support equipment and what not mostly just the physical act of it. While it's probably possible with the technology available it's just not practical. I think the way they're doing it now with rovers is much better.
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I think any unremaining pieces could be developed fairly quickly but it's just so unnatural to spend that much time in cramped quarters I say wait until propulsion methods improve, cutting travel times. Then the cost, if this program cost 2.5 bil, what would it cost to put a team up there?yikes! it might have to wind up being an international effort..
 
NASA Calls It A Mission As Curiosity Rover Fills Up Whole 2-Gigabyte Memory Card

PASADENA, CA—Barely 72 hours after the landing of its Mars rover, NASA officials announced Thursday that their mission had ended, as Curiosity's two-gigabyte memory card was now filled to capacity. "Well, that's that, folks," said chief scientist John Grotzinger, explaining that after Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager took an especially high-resolution JPEG of the Aeolis Mons mountain, the $2.5-billion rover’s SanDisk card only had 0.03 GB of space remaining. "Honestly, we thought two gigs would be more than enough. That's like a 1,000 pictures, right? I guess we probably should have deleted those old Hubble photos off there before the mission." Grotzinger confirmed that even if the rover had been equipped with a larger memory card, it likely would have had only enough power for a few more hours of exploration before it had to return to Earth to have its battery recharged.
 
Number1 said:
NASA Calls It A Mission As Curiosity Rover Fills Up Whole 2-Gigabyte Memory Card

PASADENA, CA—Barely 72 hours after the landing of its Mars rover, NASA officials announced Thursday that their mission had ended, as Curiosity's two-gigabyte memory card was now filled to capacity. "Well, that's that, folks," said chief scientist John Grotzinger, explaining that after Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager took an especially high-resolution JPEG of the Aeolis Mons mountain, the $2.5-billion rover’s SanDisk card only had 0.03 GB of space remaining. "Honestly, we thought two gigs would be more than enough. That's like a 1,000 pictures, right? I guess we probably should have deleted those old Hubble photos off there before the mission." Grotzinger confirmed that even if the rover had been equipped with a larger memory card, it likely would have had only enough power for a few more hours of exploration before it had to return to Earth to have its battery recharged.
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Number1 said:
NASA Calls It A Mission As Curiosity Rover Fills Up Whole 2-Gigabyte Memory Card

PASADENA, CA—Barely 72 hours after the landing of its Mars rover, NASA officials announced Thursday that their mission had ended, as Curiosity's two-gigabyte memory card was now filled to capacity. "Well, that's that, folks," said chief scientist John Grotzinger, explaining that after Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager took an especially high-resolution JPEG of the Aeolis Mons mountain, the $2.5-billion rover’s SanDisk card only had 0.03 GB of space remaining. "Honestly, we thought two gigs would be more than enough. That's like a 1,000 pictures, right? I guess we probably should have deleted those old Hubble photos off there before the mission." Grotzinger confirmed that even if the rover had been equipped with a larger memory card, it likely would have had only enough power for a few more hours of exploration before it had to return to Earth to have its battery recharged.
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What?? Fuck that! I just called the President to complain!!!
 
i wish nasa could just send a dozen or so of those things out there. cover multiple areas at once. stop dragging science out over decades when it wouldnt take that much more to speed things up.
 
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