The Mars Mission Curiosity is a success!!!! NASA had a cool "live" program that simulated the mission/landing. I was able to move the rover and it's relationship to the stars. I took these screen shots as it was happening live. What a trip that was!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764955@N06/

Houston, we have no problem !  :thatwassmart

massive waste of time and money. could be much better spent here on Earth. what do they hope to prove or disprove?

I'm so excited, I'm typing this with scientology

an SUV on Mars.... next up, gas station!!!

First picture back from Curiousity


http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk86/angieblue06/marvinonmars.jpg

AngieBlue wrote on Aug 7^th, 2012 at 5:00pm:

First picture back from Curiousity http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk86/angieblue06/marvinonmars.jpg

:loloncemore

AngieBlue wrote on Aug 7^th, 2012 at 5:00pm:

First picture back from Curiousity http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk86/angieblue06/marvinonmars.jpg

I'm going to assume that after Curiosity got there. No live cats were found. :D

Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus.......

gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 7:39am:

Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus.......

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/G9/High-Fives-de.jpg

gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 7:39am:

Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus.......

The next mission will be to explore those brown rings around Uranus.  :nooslajaleisk

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 8:43am:

gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 7:39am: Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus....... The next mission will be to explore those brown rings around Uranus.  :nooslajaleisk

The Starfish Enterprise!

gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 7:39am:

Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus.......

Well if Romney gets elected. He'll be up your anus for sure. :kissmyass

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7266/7740105804_2e10f3af3f.jpg

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 9:05am:

gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 7:39am: Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus....... Well if Romney gets elected. He'll be up your anus for sure. :kissmyass

.......and I thought you made a commitment not get political until November.   :whydontcha


"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency" Barack Obama, Jan. 21, 2009

http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/eric_holder_500.jpg

gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 9:04am:

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 8:43am: gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 7:39am: Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus....... The next mission will be to explore those brown rings around Uranus.  :nooslajaleisk The Starfish Enterprise!

hahaha! that is rim shot, no pun!

Some Guy wrote on Aug 6^th, 2012 at 6:29am:

massive waste of time and money. could be much better spent here on Earth. what do they hope to prove or disprove?

They are not trying to PROVE or DISPROVE anything...
There is A LOT  greater "massive waste of time and  money" here on Earth.

Science for the sake of science and exploration  is never a waste...an investment in knowledge and discovering the previously unknown is a good thing...it is what drives us
as a thinking, intelligent creature.

Of course the money could be spent here on Earth...that is an entirely different set of perimeters  and hurdles to get over.

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 10:01am:

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:05am: gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 7:39am: Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus....... Well if Romney gets elected. He'll be up your anus for sure. :kissmyass .......and I thought you made a commitment not get political until November.   :whydontcha "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency" Barack Obama, Jan. 21, 2009 http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/eric_holder_500.jpg

You Pubelicans have NO sense of humour. :whatapostronnie

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 11:03am:

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 10:01am: sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:05am: gimmekeef wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 7:39am: Whats up next for the money wasters at NASA?.....Its all government driven so next stop must be Uranus....... Well if Romney gets elected. He'll be up your anus for sure. :kissmyass .......and I thought you made a commitment not get political until November.   :whydontcha "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency" Barack Obama, Jan. 21, 2009 http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/eric_holder_500.jpg You Pubelicans have NO sense of humour. :whatapostronnie

It's over...

Paranoid Android wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 10:17am:

Some Guy wrote on Aug 6th, 2012 at 6:29am: massive waste of time and money. could be much better spent here on Earth. what do they hope to prove or disprove? They are not trying to PROVE or DISPROVE anything... There is A LOT  greater "massive waste of time and  money" here on Earth. Science for the sake of science and exploration  is never a waste...an investment in knowledge and discovering the previously unknown is a good thing...it is what drives us as a thinking, intelligent creature. Of course the money could be spent here on Earth...that is an entirely different set of perimeters  and hurdles to get over.

I agree with my esteemed compatriot Mr. Android. The science and technology involved in getting Curiostity to the surface of Mars was mind-boggling in and of itself. Watching the landing go off without a hitch reminded me of my childhood in the 60s, when the Gemini and Apollo missions thrilled me and made me (and the rest of the planet) rethink what was possible. You'd think we could ALL take pride in the achievement, instead of finding fault and then blaming someone (I would assume the President) for that fault.

Come to think of it, why are our Olympians wasting their time seeing how fast they can swim or how high high into the heavens they can fly? What are they trying to prove?

FPM wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 1:35pm:

Paranoid Android wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 10:17am: Some Guy wrote on Aug 6th, 2012 at 6:29am: massive waste of time and money. could be much better spent here on Earth. what do they hope to prove or disprove? They are not trying to PROVE or DISPROVE anything... There is A LOT  greater "massive waste of time and  money" here on Earth. Science for the sake of science and exploration  is never a waste...an investment in knowledge and discovering the previously unknown is a good thing...it is what drives us as a thinking, intelligent creature. Of course the money could be spent here on Earth...that is an entirely different set of perimeters  and hurdles to get over. I agree with my esteemed compatriot Mr. Android. The science and technology involved in getting Curiostity to the surface of Mars was mind-boggling in and of itself. Watching the landing go off without a hitch reminded me of my childhood in the 60s, when the Gemini and Apollo missions thrilled me and made me (and the rest of the planet) rethink what was possible. You'd think we could ALL take pride in the achievement, instead of finding fault and then blaming someone (I would assume the President) for that fault. Come to think of it, why are our Olympians wasting their time seeing how fast they can swim or how high high into the heavens they can fly? What are they trying to prove?

that we will watch anything?????

Mars in 3-D

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

Not even a McDonalds. Looks a right shit-hole.

Nice read from a few years ago..........http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/life_mars.html

Gazza wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 5:29pm:

Mars in 3-D http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html Not even a McDonalds. Looks a right shit-hole.

Yeah, but they have some NASCAR guy driving the Rover.  :smilemick

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8294/7742941514_3895473c6a_b.jpg

FAKE...it was FAKED AGAIN by NASA..
I smell shenanigans afoot

No sailors fighting...no cavemen on the go

No lawmen...no beatings...no freaky show!!

FAKE FAKE FAKE!!!

I don't care what this fucking thing finds, I know Mars is flat.

At last, the '(U. S. of America  -- one of those; there's also Brazil and Mexico --) politics' thread!

Maybe it's the summer, maybe it's one of those things that some people are trying to teach us, but I'm so frigging hot, I don't even need butter!

Yes.  Lets politicize Mars.  The B-Geeks can try to figure out whether Mars is conservative or goddam liberal, inform us their idiotic reasons behind the label, and we're off to the bano!  Piso mojado!  Basura time in the craters.  

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 8:37am:

Lets politicize Mars.

It is a barren wasteland that may have supported life at one time. It must be far left liberal.


http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/169847.jpeg

Bingo wrote on Aug 8^th, 2012 at 5:44pm:

Gazza wrote on Aug 8th, 2012 at 5:29pm: Mars in 3-D http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html Not even a McDonalds. Looks a right shit-hole. Yeah, but they have some NASCAR guy driving the Rover.  :smilemick http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8294/7742941514_3895473c6a_b.jpg

Boogity,boogity,boogity.

SURPRISE PERFORMANCE: As a San Francisco tribute to NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, Thomas Dolby will perform She Blinded Me With Science! at The Exploratorium at 10:30am THIS MORNING before the live worldwide webcast with NASA JPL. (He's opening for NASA!) His Time Capsule will sit next to a full-size model of the Curiosity ready to record 30 second messages for our new friends on Mars. Come to the Exploratorium this morn!

Who is good at photoshop? Anyone want to photoshop Keith on Mars?

http://www.concertblast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Keith-Richards-Passed-Out.jpg


...maybe with this landscape shot?

http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/660/371/Mars%20Landscape.jpg

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 9^th, 2012 at 9:03am:

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 9th, 2012 at 8:37am: Lets politicize Mars. It is a barren wasteland that may have supported life at one time. It must be far left liberal. http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/169847.jpeg

Are you a one-percenter or just one of their saps?
Brainy

Brainbell Jangler wrote on Aug 10^th, 2012 at 1:47pm:

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 9th, 2012 at 9:03am: sirmoonie wrote on Aug 9th, 2012 at 8:37am: Lets politicize Mars. It is a barren wasteland that may have supported life at one time. It must be far left liberal. http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/169847.jpeg Are you a one-percenter or just one of their saps? Brainy

Not a one-percenter, just a common senser.  :tongui

worst VP pick ever!!

Some Guy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 11:28am:

worst VP pick ever!!

Really ?!  :loloncemore

http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/janewli15/biden_foot-vi.jpg

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 11:43am:

Some Guy wrote on Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:28am: worst VP pick ever!! Really ?!  :loloncemore http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/janewli15/biden_foot-vi.jpg

I'm willing to bet you a number 3 combo from Chik fil a that yes, yes it is. Horrible move! But what did you expect?

Some Guy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 11:49am:

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:43am: Some Guy wrote on Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:28am: worst VP pick ever!! Really ?!  :loloncemore http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/janewli15/biden_foot-vi.jpg I'm willing to bet you a number 3 combo from Chik fil a that yes, yes it is. Horrible move! But what did you expect?

Does that include fries ?

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 11:57am:

Some Guy wrote on Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:49am: Edith Grove wrote on Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:43am: Some Guy wrote on Aug 11th, 2012 at 11:28am: worst VP pick ever!! Really ?!  :loloncemore http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/janewli15/biden_foot-vi.jpg I'm willing to bet you a number 3 combo from Chik fil a that yes, yes it is. Horrible move! But what did you expect? Does that include fries ?

Certainly, it includes waffle fries of course!

if the US govt spent half it's yearly military budget on NASA, we'd be orbiting pluto by now.

Fact!!

" ............... we'd be orbiting pluto by now.  "


http://www.cameraclubny.org/auction2008/photos/pelleteri_carissa.jpg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some Guy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 11:28am:

worst VP pick ever!!

Best Some Boogie ever! :wtf3 :booze :willya

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/MarsLandscapewithkeith.jpg
:forfucksake

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/MarsLandscapeandKeith.jpg

Kilroy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 6:23pm:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/MarsLandscapewithKeitho.jpg

Kinds looks like Joshua Tree.  :forfucksake

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/Keith_Richards-RingAndMar.jpg

Kilroy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 6:32pm:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/MarsLandscapeandKeith.jpg

Good job K'Roy! 8-)

Kilroy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 6:23pm:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/MarsLandscapewithkeith.jpg :forfucksake

Thanks!

Thank you, Not the Best, and a quick job at best, and meant No offensive to Keith.
I sometimes fool with this thing called photo shop in order to add player to team pictures. When one of the teamates can be there for the group shot.
The Parents really appreciate it and are surprised that it can be done!
Happy to put Keith on Mars but would rather put him on stage with the others
"In concert Soon to be appearing at a club near you!"
:smilestu
I love this place!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/t56g13h9/Rocks%20Off/MarsLandscapekeithmaro.jpg
Sorry to both on such a Rookie Job!

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/Martians.jpg

I'm confused.  Are we for or against this Martian stuff?  Will someone please sort this the fuck out.  Jesus pissing Christ, sometimes.  What the fuck you got to do to get a goddam answer around here?  Click your heels and sing Bojangles?  Jesus fucking Christ.

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 7:42pm:

I'm confused.  Are we for or against this Martian stuff?  Will someone please sort this the fuck out.  Jesus pissing Christ, sometimes.  What the fuck you got to do to get a goddam answer around here?  Click your heels and sing Bojangles?  Jesus fucking Christ.

Yes.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 10:01pm:

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 7:42pm: I'm confused.  Are we for or against this Martian stuff?  Will someone please sort this the fuck out.  Jesus pissing Christ, sometimes.  What the fuck you got to do to get a goddam answer around here?  Click your heels and sing Bojangles?  Jesus fucking Christ. Yes.

Yes, The Answer Is Yes. I personally am all for Mars, In Fact Other than Uranus, it's my favorite Planet in our SS.
I love Uranus cause, when the kids say Uranus,  I yell , Ur...anus, My Anus What the hell you wanna talk about My anus for!
Cracks em up every time.
Easy Crowd!
By the way I personally think we as humans, and all lifeforms originally  came from Mars!  I believe as in  the Ark, we actually Had to leave Mars in a space ship, and came down here from Mars. Adam, Eve, and everything else! :blankfriggingstare1
let the beatings begin!

The Grateful Dead welcome you to The Mars Hotel:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/7802908024_e4ac190b14.jpg

Political and offensive shite removed.

I dont care how long any of you have been here - start that shite again and it'll be your last time on this board.  

I don't think I was political there, sincere effort to distill and encapsulate once and for all the mind-blowing idiocy of one poster.  Turned out to be an internet Kodak moment.

The Rolling Stones, they are similarly mind-blowing to me.  Exile on Main Street.

RO is as good as it gets on the internet.  Cheers.  Please dont delete, I beseech one more grace, keep this up, as my dying testification, Mars asunder.

I just drank some stilch.  I'm self-banning, because I know I can't abide by the new standards.  I just strapped myself into a gurney, wearing a white smock, and started an IV, which I know how to do from shooting drugs in days of yore.  And now I am pouring gasoline on my head at the same time I instruct an associate to shove a sword through my heart and throw a lit match on me.  

Its time to Moof Piss, lord!  Moof Piss!

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 11:59pm:

I don't think I was political there, sincere effort to distill and encapsulate once and for all the mind-blowing idiocy of one poster.  Turned out to be an internet Kodak moment. The Rolling Stones, they are similarly mind-blowing to me.  Exile on Main Street. RO is as good as it gets on the internet.  Cheers.  Please dont delete, I beseech one more grace, keep this up, as my dying testification, Mars asunder. I just drank some stilch.  I'm self-banning, because I know I can't abide by the new standards.  I just strapped myself into a gurney, wearing a white smock, and started an IV, which I know how to do from shooting drugs in days of yore.  And now I am pouring gasoline on my head at the same time I instruct an associate to shove a sword through my heart and throw a lit match on me.   Its time to Moof Piss, lord!  Moof Piss!

Don't go all Assange on us right before the start of football season moonpie. I posted the Ryan/ RATM connection post and evoked the passion of Riffy. My bad, I poked the bear.
shades of Moofstank...

Some Guy wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 11:28am:

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 18th, 2012 at 11:59pm: I don't think I was political there, sincere effort to distill and encapsulate once and for all the mind-blowing idiocy of one poster.  Turned out to be an internet Kodak moment. The Rolling Stones, they are similarly mind-blowing to me.  Exile on Main Street. RO is as good as it gets on the internet.  Cheers.  Please dont delete, I beseech one more grace, keep this up, as my dying testification, Mars asunder. I just drank some stilch.  I'm self-banning, because I know I can't abide by the new standards.  I just strapped myself into a gurney, wearing a white smock, and started an IV, which I know how to do from shooting drugs in days of yore.  And now I am pouring gasoline on my head at the same time I instruct an associate to shove a sword through my heart and throw a lit match on me.   Its time to Moof Piss, lord!  Moof Piss! Don't go all Assange on us right before the start of football season moonpie. I posted the Ryan/ RATM connection post and evoked the passion of Riffy. My bad, I poked the bear. shades of Moofstank...

AS long we're all getting weepy and shit. I couldn't resist taking a cheap political shot early on in this thread. Tried to steer it back on course. But shit was out of the ass by then.........Sorry G. I promise to keep it in my pants until election day. :loloncemore

sirmoonie wrote on Aug 18^th, 2012 at 11:59pm:

I don't think I was political there, sincere effort to distill and encapsulate once and for all the mind-blowing idiocy of one poster.  Turned out to be an internet Kodak moment. The Rolling Stones, they are similarly mind-blowing to me.  Exile on Main Street. RO is as good as it gets on the internet.  Cheers.  Please dont delete, I beseech one more grace, keep this up, as my dying testification, Mars asunder. I just drank some stilch.  I'm self-banning, because I know I can't abide by the new standards.  I just strapped myself into a gurney, wearing a white smock, and started an IV, which I know how to do from shooting drugs in days of yore.  And now I am pouring gasoline on my head at the same time I instruct an associate to shove a sword through my heart and throw a lit match on me.   Its time to Moof Piss, lord!  Moof Piss!

All ya gotta do is not quote the posts in question!

Riffy, baby, please don't go !

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Tf9lhev1qwA?rel=0

holy jesus! i think we've seen the last of Riffy!

say hello to glennie and steelie on shidoobee my friend!!

" My Riffy need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond Rocks Off what he was at Shidoobee; he is to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the board.

As he said many times, in many posts about this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:

   "Some men see things as they are and say why.
   I dream things that never were and say Obama sucks with teeth!!!."

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 2:15pm:

Riffy, baby, please don't go ! http://www.youtube.com/embed/Tf9lhev1qwA?rel=0

Best AC /DC today!
Oldest Son Is a big fan of them. :smilestu

http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/49608/sarcastic-crying.gif

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs1/1448051_o.gif

http://gifs.gifbin.com/052010/1272964790_glenn-beck-crying.gif

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/41950_o.gif

bono....is he really gone??? has he riffed his last?

He only had one riff, (hint: it sucked with teeth) so his first might as well be his last.

I'm thinking that perhaps his departure was the "Big News" the Stones promised us was "Coming Soon".  You didn't need a new app to see it coming, though.

I think we should've gone to Venus, this thread may have been a lot different.  :smilemick

FPM wrote on Aug 20^th, 2012 at 2:51pm:

He only had one riff, (hint: it sucked with teeth) so his first might as well be his last. I'm thinking that perhaps his departure was the "Big News" the Stones promised us was "Coming Soon".  You didn't need a new app to see it coming, though.

Posting from beyond the stratosphere!

How to get to Mars: http://www.youtube.com/embed/XRCIzZHpFtY?rel=0