Good stuff guys!
And yes, it is pretty damn cool to see pics from another planet!
Good stuff guys!
And yes, it is pretty damn cool to see pics from another planet!
Of course its "cool" but the mission isn't about pictures (they are really about publicity and future funding - if NASA wasn't putting out the odd photo every now and then the vast majority of the public would have forgotten about this days ago). The really cool stuff involves things you won't see pictures of.
Looking forward to hearing about the ice cold bits (one of my uni friends from years ago has experiments on the rover)
Yes, the ice clouds are very interesting.
The place where Curiosity landed is now entitled to Ray Bradbury the author of "The Martian Chronicles".
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So now into SiFi. My favorite is Starship Troopers/Armour and the Foundation series. Such great minds and great literature.
I love the Odyssey. Kind of Scifi if we think about it...
My Scifi favourites ever are: Dune (the first 3 books are awesome), The Dispossessed, The Demolished Man, Tiger, Tiger, Startide Rising and Martian Chronicles.
But at the time of 1st Edition it was more expensive than 75cents, I guarantee you that, Niclas.
I miss when books were cheap in Portugal. I was able to buy a lot of books. Now books are extremely expensive and the translations seem to be made by ignorant fools.
Hey its a paperback I bought years ago. Not written by Homer. I ment the price tells you how long I have had the book. A summer reading when in High School (maybe 1968).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31
They already thought of that one.
I have the distinct notion that I saw that animation series when I was a kid, but I can't completely recall it. But I much prefer this re-telling of the Odyssey:
Good news! Curiosity moved: 4 .5 meters forward, then a steering angle of 120 degrees and then again another 2.5 meters, all in 5 minutes. It's not exactly as fast as Bolt but it is a first great success.
Bad news! One of the two meteo probes (used to analyze the martian wind) is physically broken.
It always struck me as one of those books doomed to lose its soul in translation, so I've never even tried reading it in Swedish.
Homer, on the other hand, is apparently much closer to the original in the latest translation than any English rendition. Though I'm not able to tell myself - Since the original text is all Greek to me.
/Niclas
Put like that, Curiosity moving slowly across the surface of a distant planet suddenly becomes potent poetic image.
In fact, curiosity moving at all speaks to me as a concept - I might try to work that into a lyric...
Something like this, perhaps
Curiosity stumbled
like drunk or half awake
from shadow to shadow
unable to slake
or still, its wistful longing
/Niclas
my job requires high availability to ensure continuity of service I hope that the second probe will be able 'to ensure data I would be surprised to the contrary.
About the speed is an Italian proverb that tells something like this: those who go slow and steady wins the race
Lose 1d10 sanity...
Thanks Attilio. It all depends. The fun factor in a work can be measured in three pivot points: Pertinence of the work, Work atmosphere and Curiosity level. Two of these high and one low and you will have a funny work, even if a very mundane one. Of course that I'm not measuring working distance and personal factors (good health, etc.)
But I had in the past a work of my dreams with a terrible working atmosphere and the feeling that I was working for nothing and it was awful. So sending probes to Mars might be a fantastic thing, but...
I agree Joaquim. Working atmosphere is really important ... I don't think that sending this probe hadn't been all plain sailing but participate in writing a page in the history of science I hope it satisfaction to those who participate (Whereas I also get some nice satisfaction in my work from time to time)
A sad news Neil Amstromg the first man on the moon dead at 82 In 60' I think he was sure to see a man on Mars before 2000.
Neil Armstrong passed away. A sad day for all the explorers of new worlds.
"A step for the first time lighter to any man
A voyage for the first time to a farthest shore
A dream dreamt for generations of men fulfilled
A small step. The long step."
Joaquim.
Thanks Karl. You are most kind.
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