Rumraket wrote:Yeah, ok.. drillholes and the dust it drilled out. "How exciting". I want results of the chemical analysis... if drilling holes gave me erections I'd have become a mechanic or carpenter of some sort.

jamest wrote:

Rumraket wrote:Yeah, ok.. drillholes and the dust it drilled out. "How exciting". I want results of the chemical analysis... if drilling holes gave me erections I'd have become a mechanic or carpenter of some sort.

You're supposed to get the erection before you drill the hole, silly.

NASA Mars rover Curiosity on road to recovery
Outer space tech support gets Curiosity switched to backup system as work continues on glitch
By Sharon Gaudin
March 5, 2013 12:22 PM ET


Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is out of safe mode and back on active status after computer trouble had sidelined the vehicle for nearly a week.

The space agency reported that Curiosity is now running on its backup computer system, known as its B-side. It's been taken out of its minimal-activity safe mode and ready to return to full operation.

"We are making good progress in the recovery," said Mars Science Laboratory Project Manager Richard Cook in a statement.

"One path of progress is evaluating the A-side with intent to recover it as a backup. Also, we need to go through a series of steps with the B-side, such as informing the computer about the state of the rover -- the position of the arm, the position of the mast, that kind of information," he said.
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the_5th_ape wrote:Check this out

the_5th_ape wrote:Check this out

Calilasseia wrote:

the_5th_ape wrote:Check this out

Oh right, abovetopsecret.com. A well known fringe lunatic conspiracy tinfoil hat site. Whose offerings are probably even less reliable than those of creationist websites. Why are you polluting a serious science thread with this shit?

the_5th_ape wrote:

Calilasseia wrote:

the_5th_ape wrote:Check this out

Oh right, abovetopsecret.com. A well known fringe lunatic conspiracy tinfoil hat site. Whose offerings are probably even less reliable than those of creationist websites. Why are you polluting a serious science thread with this shit?

So you did not check out the image posted in that link? Take a look at the first image. Its from NASA

kennyc wrote:OFFS...clearly whales having returned to the sea, decided to return to space, evolved wings, oxygen storage organs and super-pooper-propulsion. Simple.

DavidMcC wrote:

kennyc wrote:OFFS...clearly whales having returned to the sea, decided to return to space, evolved wings, oxygen storage organs and super-pooper-propulsion. Simple.

Fart-engines, eh? Nice!
They might also need to be able to hold their breath for even longer than a sperm whale can!

A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments "shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes," NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.

The discovery comes just seven months after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars to spend at least two years determining if the planet could have ever supported primitive life.

"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."

the_5th_ape wrote:It's official: Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars, NASA says

A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments "shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes," NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.

The discovery comes just seven months after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars to spend at least two years determining if the planet could have ever supported primitive life.

"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."

"We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably — if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it," said Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in Pasadena