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First Video Captures Curiosity's Descent onto Mars

Posted August 07, 2012 10:49 AM

From New Scientist - Online news:

Watch stop-motion video of the last few minutes of the rover's journey to Mars

Read the whole article and watch the video

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08/07/2012 12:57 PM

The fact that you have to watch two advertisements: Meh.

The overall impression of what is really going on: Meh.

The fact you are watching video of a manmade device soft landing on the surface of another planet: I'm not certain it is priceless, but it's pretty friggin cool!

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08/07/2012 2:49 PM

I'll pass.

I'm fed up with being forced to sit through some mindless video that really pisses me off.

Rant over.
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08/08/2012 5:13 PM

No adverts seen, but what was that Coke bottle doing on the surface?

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08/08/2012 5:45 PM

The Gods Must Be Crazy everywhere.
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08/08/2012 5:51 PM

Indeed!

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08/08/2012 5:58 PM

There you go with another off the cuff wiseacre remark (or whatever that guy said) that is hilarious!

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08/08/2012 6:01 PM

Those are movies that I watch over and over. The first two are the best.
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08/07/2012 3:00 PM

There are some very interesting Mars pics that just came through from Curiosity.............. It's still being analyzed.

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08/07/2012 3:06 PM

Didn't that thing burst sometime around June, 2003?

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08/07/2012 3:23 PM

nah,......news arrives late there....... they still think Reagan is going to win reelection.

I should have posted the parent of this thread here........

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08/07/2012 9:46 PM

Looks vaguely familiar...

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08/08/2012 7:37 AM

I didn't see any commercials. I just saw the lander video.

I wonder if it's because I use FireFox.

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08/08/2012 12:33 PM

Lucky you, but I use Firefox as well and had to sit through a @#$% political ad. That, and the resolution I had was pretty poor.

Complaints out of the the way though, it's pretty cool to learn that all those old Sci-Fi movies showing rockets landing on their tails were not that far off.
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08/08/2012 4:29 PM

Probably not. The actual content is determined by website.
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08/08/2012 5:02 PM

Yeah, I just watched it again. There was only one sponsor message this time. Might be some sort of a cycle, maybe depends on traffic... Dunno

It's still a pretty awesome thing to think about being accomplished.

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08/08/2012 5:08 PM

Wierd. I just watched it here at work with no commercials.

Pretty neat.
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