[Herra Tohtori]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

Follow the historical event! Get on IRC to wow! and ahhh! and hope for the best with others with interest in planetary research!

This is the most complicated, most difficult operation that has ever been attempted to land on another planet. I dearly hope it succeeds and the rover itself can become as productive as Spirit and Opportunity.

[Polpolion]

http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/articles/view/270

Somewhat old article about what this mission is about. Or at least in its relevancy to one particular professor at my uni.

[LHN91]

Team of researchers over at my uni (University of Guelph) are part of the team that developed and will be operating the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer.

[FireSpawn]

Quick! Somebody call IceCube and get him on standby, just in case there are any issues with paranormal mars phenomena. 

[Sushi]

Screw the Olympics, this is what I'm all excited/nervous about this summer.

[Nuke]

our invasion of mars continues...

[Dark Hunter]

Ten minutes ago as of this post: Curiosity has landed safely. 

Flawless touchdown on Martian soil.

[mjn.mixael]

[NGTM-1R]

X-COM's Mars Operation is go. The Tank/Laser has landed.

[CommanderDJ]

Someone post the IRC log.

[mjn.mixael]

Worth staying up late for.

[achtung]

Someone post the IRC log.

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<Sab0o`> http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl
<achtung> already there
<achtung> already pscyhed
<achtung> psyched*
<achtung> hope it goes well
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<Sab0o`> : D
<achtung> someone must be munching on penus
<cyansniper> did we land on mars yet???
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<dsockwell> redsniper: 20 minutes
<dsockwell> or so
<redsniper> ****
<redsniper> I was about to go to sleep
<redsniper> oh well....
<CommanderDJ> What's EDL stand for?
<achtung> Entry
<achtung> Descent
<achtung> Landing
<achtung> I think.
<dsockwell> y
<dsockwell> dude has an AWESOME mohawk
<redsniper> in a nutshell, what sets this apart from previous rovers and why should I be ****ting bricks?
<achtung> inorite
<achtung> red highlight kind of thing
<dsockwell> redsniper: plutonium powered laser
<achtung> It has a lazer
<redsniper> srs?
<dsockwell> srs
<redsniper> ****ing A man
<redsniper> martians won't know what hit 'em
<dsockwell> it's got a plutonium radiothermal generator
<dsockwell> so no more waiting for the sun to come out
<dsockwell> also better computers, i'm sure
<redsniper> radiothermal... how does that work?
<dsockwell> plutonium decays
<dsockwell> heat comes out
<dsockwell> drives thermocouple
<dsockwell> bam, power
<redsniper> and it directly gets a current from- ohhhhh thermocouple
<redsniper> clever
<dsockwell> i made that part up
<dsockwell> but that's what i'd do
<redsniper> >:/
<redsniper> so it *somehow* converts the heat from the decay into electrickery
<dsockwell> yes
<redsniper> without steam and turbines and all that ****e
<dsockwell> right
<redsniper> k
<achtung> VxWorks
<dsockwell> and without a chain reaction
<achtung> real time mother****er
<redsniper> isn't that what a nuclear battery is?
<dsockwell> freertos
<dsockwell> *****es
<dsockwell> well
<dsockwell> i guess it could still be vxworks
<redsniper> what's the lag though?
<achtung> It is.
<achtung> NASA uses VxWorks almost exclusively I believe.
<dsockwell> hm
<redsniper> I mean it could already be landed or wrecked by now, right?
<achtung> yes redsniper
<achtung> 15 minute delay
<dsockwell> redsniper: coming up on that time yes
<redsniper> weird
<achtung> blame physics
<dsockwell> but
<dsockwell> relativity
<dsockwell> simultaneous events are hard
<redsniper> the point is, we're just watching at this point
<dsockwell> in one sense
<dsockwell> it's already been down for a little while
<dsockwell> but in another sense we're watching it live
<redsniper> COMPUTER SIMULATION
<CommanderDJ> Did that guy just take a picture with his phone?
<redsniper> I believe so
<dsockwell> surprised he's allowed to do that
<redsniper> maybe he's not
<dsockwell> so
<dsockwell> according to that thing
<dsockwell> it's down right about now
<redsniper> one way or another...
<redsniper> Fuk Li
<Esarai> 6 minutes.... oh god the anticipation
<redsniper> it's weird... that we all talk about it like it's happening NOW
<CommanderDJ> Shhhh. You're ruining the moment. :P
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<redsniper> are they doing that balloon tetrahedron thing again?
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<achtung> MAAAARS
<redsniper> fffffffffffff
<achtung> PERPARING FOR ENTRY
<achtung> OH****OH****
<polpolio1> that's what she said
<BotenAnna> yes, yes it is
<redsniper> omggggg
<Mort> 8 minutes to a hopefully successful landing
<Cobra> $20 says the parachute fails to deploy
<redsniper> nah
<Cobra> and it leaves a nice crater in the ground
<achtung> Nah, I put my money on the rover.
<polpolio1> HEARTBEAT TONES
<Cobra> You know what's really weird
<polpolio1> BEAT BEAT
<polpolio1> BEAT BEAT
<Cobra> now that you mention heartbeat tones
<achtung> BEEP BEEP
<achtung> BEEP BEEP
<Cobra> I can manipulate the muscles in my ears to some extent
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<Cobra> I can make a heartbeat tone at will
<redsniper> herraaaaaaaaaa
<redsniper> maaaaaaaaaaaaaars
<polpolio1> you are just in time!
<Cobra> **** MARS
<Cobra> Is there a strwam
<Cobra> stream too
<dsockwell> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
<polpolio1> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
<polpolio1> oh
<Cobra> fail
<dsockwell> http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
<Cobra> Looking good so far
<dsockwell> sounding good too
<dsockwell> forgot about missincontrol
<polpolio1> BEAT BEAT
<Cobra> 15km alt
<redsniper> supersonic parachute deployment, jfc
<dsockwell> STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT
<polpolio1> http://i.imgur.com/9QLSU.png
<Cobra> woo!
<Cobra> parachute successfulyl deployed
<dsockwell> sweeet
<Mort> nice
<Cobra> 150 m/s
<dsockwell> so awesome they kept a heartbeat through reentry
<Cobra> I'm surprised they haven't lost contact with it
<Cobra> Hasn't almost every mission to Mars been ill-fated?
<dsockwell> 90m/s
<polpolio1> UH OH
<dsockwell> Cobra: 30% failure rate i think
<dsockwell> oh ****
<HT[mobile]> Awesome
<Cobra> huh.
<dsockwell> oh
<Cobra> I spoke too soon
<dsockwell> 'we have lost tones from earth at this time, this is expected'
<HT[mobile]> 40 % have succeeded
<Goober5000> "signal from Odyssey is still strong"
<Goober5000> powered flight
<dsockwell> wooooot
<dsockwell> ROCKET TIME
<polpolio1> DUN DUN
<Cobra> SUDDENLY IT DROPS LIKE A ROCK
<Cobra> OH NOES
<polpolio1> DUUUUN DUUUUUUUN
<Goober5000> SKYCRANE
<Cobra> lol someone's named Fuk Li
<achtung> if it gives a quick picture
<achtung> I WILL CLAP WITH THEM
<achtung> TOUCHDOWN
<polpolio1> yay!
<HT[mobile]> It's already either landed or crashed
<redsniper> wheeeeee
<Cobra> landed
<polpolio1> suddenly a mars quake!
<Esarai> WHIOOOOOOOOOOOOo
<Esarai> WOOOOOOO
<Mort> ding!
<dsockwell> **** THEY DID IT
<Goober5000> ON MARS
<CommanderDJ> WE DO IT ALL FOR SCIENCE
<Goober5000> AWEXOME
<redsniper> HT[mobile]: we've been over this
<Cobra> WOO!
<Esarai> ****, I near had a heart attack at the 'we may have lost it already'
<dsockwell> me too
<polpolio1> same
<Goober5000> "And that, gentlemen, is how we do that"
<Esarai> Images, images
<dsockwell> 'were getting data from the surface of mars'
<polpolio1> watch
<HT[mobile]> Confirmed then?
<polpolio1> the first picture will be upside down
<dsockwell> GIVE PICTURES
<achtung> PICTURES
<HT[mobile]> Awsum
<achtung> OHFUUCK
<polpolio1> pics or it didn't happen
<redsniper> show pics
<Cobra> Um
<Cobra> So
<redsniper> plz to be showing images
<Cobra> I start thinking about how some of this ****'s fake again
<Cobra> We're getting data in real time from MARS
<redsniper> not real time
<achtung> 14 minutes later
<polpolio1> as real time as it gets
<Cobra> Well still
<achtung> don't tell me you're one of those...
<Cobra> only 14 minutes from Mars
<Cobra> Well
<polpolio1> you literally cannot get any more real time
<Esarai> WOOOOOOO
<Cobra> think of it like this
<Esarai> WOOOO
<Esarai> IMAGE
<polpolio1> without being on mars
<dsockwell> wooot
<Cobra> We can supposedly talk to people on the moon
<Cobra> in real time
<Esarai> f**k yeah, science
<Cobra> on the first try
<redsniper> there's a lag for the moon too...
<Cobra> fifty years ago
<dsockwell> that ****'s easy
<Cobra> BUT
<dsockwell> there's a lag for all radio communications
<dsockwell> even a foot apart
<Cobra> I can't ****ing call my security controller out in the missile field
<Cobra> over the radio
<achtung> different scenarios
<Cobra> It's just facts like that give me a nagging sense of disbelief in the back of my mind
<achtung> don't be dense
<achtung> different hardware
<Esarai> and different operating conditions
<redsniper> more money and effort was put into the communications hardware for the ****ING MOON LANDING than was put into your walkie
<Cobra> Hahaha nice
<redsniper> PICTURES!
<redsniper> MARS!
<redsniper> **** year
<Cobra> finally a higher-resolutiion picture
<CommanderDJ> 256x256
<Esarai> lawl
<polpolio1> super hi-res
<Cobra> It needs windshield wipers
<Esarai> I sure hope to god they put something more powerful onboard
<achtung> NIGGA THATS LINUX
<redsniper> color plz
<achtung> OR UNIX
<polpolio1> FREE AS IN FREEDOM
<Goober5000> USA is now 7 for 8 on Mars landing attempts
<Cobra> **** unix/linux
<polpolio1> **** you
<redsniper> rest of the world, are you even trying?
<achtung> Cobra, you seem to be in a sore mood tonight.
<polpolio1> GPL4eva
<Cobra> What's the Odyssey's mission?
<achtung> Your jimmies.
<Cobra> achtung: meh.
<achtung> They seem... rustled.
<polpolio1> they are rustled
<Mort> To find rocks for proof that Mars was favourable for life
<Cobra> I'm stuck on a night shift sleep schedule
<Cobra> I'm only just now eating
<Mort> something like that
<Cobra> ****en starving
<Cobra> Is the atmosphere currently too thin for life?
<redsniper> and too lacking in oxygen
<redsniper> iirc
<polpolio1> we mars now
<redsniper> and too cold
<polpolio1> there's plenty of oxygen on mars
<Goober5000> Viking 1, Viking 2, Mars Pathfinder, (Mars Polar Lander), Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix, Curiosity
<polpolio1> problem is it's all in the dirt
<achtung> I bet that's Scientific Linux.
<redsniper> which was the one that crashed because they mixed their units?
<Goober5000> the one in parentheses
<Cobra> lol
<redsniper> which was phoenix?
<Cobra> profanity
<Cobra> with a little girl in the room. D:
<achtung> Phoenix was not a rover.
<Goober5000> it was sort of Mars Polar Landar redux
<Cobra> someone will be piiiiised
<redsniper> was it stationary?
<Goober5000> yes
<polpolio1> well are they going to talk about science anymore or is the stream just high fives now
<redsniper> imma go to bed
<redsniper> but that was cool
<redsniper> mars
<Cobra> looks like mostly happt times now
<Cobra> We will make the warrior planet our *****
<Goober5000> hugs all around
<Mort> Now to put a man on mars
* Cobra hugs goober
<Cobra> I LOVE YOU BRO
<Goober5000> I love you too bro
<achtung> mohawk is crying
<Cobra> lol
<Cobra> that is the gayest mohawk i've ever seen
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<Cobra> so
<Cobra> no more images
<Cobra> dafuq'
<polpolio1> the orbiter is out of range
<Cobra> so is your face
<Goober5000> also Cobra, the parachute deployed, so you owe me $20
<achtung> You still seem upset.
<achtung> Yeah.
<Cobra> ***** I never saw you agree
<polpolio1> you can give me $20 too
<Cobra> you either
<Goober5000> you never saw us disagree
<Goober5000> also, Obama needs to effing uncancel NASA's participating in ExoMars
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<dsockwell> and stop being black
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<achtung> let's hope russia launches another ****up
<achtung> america #1
<Goober5000> dude, ExoMars WOULD BE that for Russia
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<Goober5000> much as I enjoy USA being #1, I don't want ExoMars to crash and burn like Phobos-Grunt did
<achtung> I'm kidding really.
<achtung> I hope more nations get there.
<achtung> It'll make our government stop ****ing around.
<achtung> So we can get people there.
<achtung> I think landing on an asteroid should be NASA's goal though.
<achtung> I think there's some serious private interest in getting people to mars.
<achtung> Just from rich nerds.
<Goober5000> wow
<Goober5000> horizontal touchdown velocity was 0.044 m/s
<dsockwell> yeah asteroid rendezvous is the next step
<dsockwell> because coming home from asteroids is cheap
<Goober5000> we already rendezvoused with asteroids
<Goober5000> we even landed on one
<dsockwell> not people
<dsockwell> just robots
<achtung> asteroids can offer immediate financial benefit too.
<achtung> I really hope planetary resources gets off the ground.
<achtung> we future now
<dsockwell> oh yeah
<dsockwell> i forgot all about them
<dsockwell> are they still going to move an asteroid into lunar orbit?
<achtung> They're working on their mini-sats.
<achtung> Just did a round of hiring.
<dsockwell> sweet
<achtung> Things seem to be moving forward.
<achtung> I want to work for them soooo bad.
<dsockwell> me too
<dsockwell> i dont care if i'm totally incompetent
<achtung> I'd ****ing clean the floors really.
<achtung> I'd just want to be there. >_>
<dsockwell> so ****ing cool
<dsockwell> i'm happy i woke up for this
<dsockwell> instead of sleeping all day
<achtung> It was fun watching NASA win the space olympics, yes.

WE MARS NOW

[An4ximandros]

I forsee usage of that GIF in the forums in the future.

I was watching it from the NASA site, damn, I have never seen people celebrating so much about anything, they deserve it though, landing something on another planet with 14m lag is an incredible feat.

[Colonol Dekker]

Perk of being 14..kbps em veteran generation arf arf.

[Polpolion]

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<Sab0o`> http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl
<achtung> already there
<achtung> already pscyhed
<achtung> psyched*
<achtung> hope it goes well
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<Sab0o`> : D
<achtung> someone must be munching on penus
<cyansniper> did we land on mars yet???
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<dsockwell> redsniper: 20 minutes
<dsockwell> or so
<redsniper> ****
<redsniper> I was about to go to sleep
<redsniper> oh well....
<CommanderDJ> What's EDL stand for?
<achtung> Entry
<achtung> Descent
<achtung> Landing
<achtung> I think.
<dsockwell> y
<dsockwell> dude has an AWESOME mohawk
<redsniper> in a nutshell, what sets this apart from previous rovers and why should I be ****ting bricks?
<achtung> inorite
<achtung> red highlight kind of thing
<dsockwell> redsniper: plutonium powered laser
<achtung> It has a lazer
<redsniper> srs?
<dsockwell> srs
<redsniper> ****ing A man
<redsniper> martians won't know what hit 'em
<dsockwell> it's got a plutonium radiothermal generator
<dsockwell> so no more waiting for the sun to come out
<dsockwell> also better computers, i'm sure
<redsniper> radiothermal... how does that work?
<dsockwell> plutonium decays
<dsockwell> heat comes out
<dsockwell> drives thermocouple
<dsockwell> bam, power
<redsniper> and it directly gets a current from- ohhhhh thermocouple
<redsniper> clever
<dsockwell> i made that part up
<dsockwell> but that's what i'd do
<redsniper> >:/
<redsniper> so it *somehow* converts the heat from the decay into electrickery
<dsockwell> yes
<redsniper> without steam and turbines and all that ****e
<dsockwell> right
<redsniper> k
<achtung> VxWorks
<dsockwell> and without a chain reaction
<achtung> real time mother****er
<redsniper> isn't that what a nuclear battery is?
<dsockwell> freertos
<dsockwell> *****es
<dsockwell> well
<dsockwell> i guess it could still be vxworks
<redsniper> what's the lag though?
<achtung> It is.
<achtung> NASA uses VxWorks almost exclusively I believe.
<dsockwell> hm
<redsniper> I mean it could already be landed or wrecked by now, right?
<achtung> yes redsniper
<achtung> 15 minute delay
<dsockwell> redsniper: coming up on that time yes
<redsniper> weird
<achtung> blame physics
<dsockwell> but
<dsockwell> relativity
<dsockwell> simultaneous events are hard
<redsniper> the point is, we're just watching at this point
<dsockwell> in one sense
<dsockwell> it's already been down for a little while
<dsockwell> but in another sense we're watching it live
<redsniper> COMPUTER SIMULATION
<CommanderDJ> Did that guy just take a picture with his phone?
<redsniper> I believe so
<dsockwell> surprised he's allowed to do that
<redsniper> maybe he's not
<dsockwell> so
<dsockwell> according to that thing
<dsockwell> it's down right about now
<redsniper> one way or another...
<redsniper> Fuk Li
<Esarai> 6 minutes.... oh god the anticipation
<redsniper> it's weird... that we all talk about it like it's happening NOW
<CommanderDJ> Shhhh. You're ruining the moment. :P
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<redsniper> are they doing that balloon tetrahedron thing again?
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<achtung> MAAAARS
<redsniper> fffffffffffff
<achtung> PERPARING FOR ENTRY
<achtung> OH****OH****
<polpolio1> that's what she said
<BotenAnna> yes, yes it is
<redsniper> omggggg
<Mort> 8 minutes to a hopefully successful landing
<Cobra> $20 says the parachute fails to deploy
<redsniper> nah
<Cobra> and it leaves a nice crater in the ground
<achtung> Nah, I put my money on the rover.
<polpolio1> HEARTBEAT TONES
<Cobra> You know what's really weird
<polpolio1> BEAT BEAT
<polpolio1> BEAT BEAT
<Cobra> now that you mention heartbeat tones
<achtung> BEEP BEEP
<achtung> BEEP BEEP
<Cobra> I can manipulate the muscles in my ears to some extent
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<Cobra> I can make a heartbeat tone at will
<redsniper> herraaaaaaaaaa
<redsniper> maaaaaaaaaaaaaars
<polpolio1> you are just in time!
<Cobra> **** MARS
<Cobra> Is there a strwam
<Cobra> stream too
<dsockwell> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
<polpolio1> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
<polpolio1> oh
<Cobra> fail
<dsockwell> http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
<Cobra> Looking good so far
<dsockwell> sounding good too
<dsockwell> forgot about missincontrol
<polpolio1> BEAT BEAT
<Cobra> 15km alt
<redsniper> supersonic parachute deployment, jfc
<dsockwell> STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT
<polpolio1> http://i.imgur.com/9QLSU.png
<Cobra> woo!
<Cobra> parachute successfulyl deployed
<dsockwell> sweeet
<Mort> nice
<Cobra> 150 m/s
<dsockwell> so awesome they kept a heartbeat through reentry
<Cobra> I'm surprised they haven't lost contact with it
<Cobra> Hasn't almost every mission to Mars been ill-fated?
<dsockwell> 90m/s
<polpolio1> UH OH
<dsockwell> Cobra: 30% failure rate i think
<dsockwell> oh ****
<HT[mobile]> Awesome
<Cobra> huh.
<dsockwell> oh
<Cobra> I spoke too soon
<dsockwell> 'we have lost tones from earth at this time, this is expected'
<HT[mobile]> 40 % have succeeded
<Goober5000> "signal from Odyssey is still strong"
<Goober5000> powered flight
<dsockwell> wooooot
<dsockwell> ROCKET TIME
<polpolio1> DUN DUN
<Cobra> SUDDENLY IT DROPS LIKE A ROCK
<Cobra> OH NOES
<polpolio1> DUUUUN DUUUUUUUN
<Goober5000> SKYCRANE
<Cobra> lol someone's named Fuk Li
<achtung> if it gives a quick picture
<achtung> I WILL CLAP WITH THEM
<achtung> TOUCHDOWN
<polpolio1> yay!
<HT[mobile]> It's already either landed or crashed
<redsniper> wheeeeee
<Cobra> landed
<polpolio1> suddenly a mars quake!
<Esarai> WHIOOOOOOOOOOOOo
<Esarai> WOOOOOOO
<Mort> ding!
<dsockwell> **** THEY DID IT
<Goober5000> ON MARS
<CommanderDJ> WE DO IT ALL FOR SCIENCE
<Goober5000> AWEXOME
<redsniper> HT[mobile]: we've been over this
<Cobra> WOO!
<Esarai> ****, I near had a heart attack at the 'we may have lost it already'
<dsockwell> me too
<polpolio1> same
<Goober5000> "And that, gentlemen, is how we do that"
<Esarai> Images, images
<dsockwell> 'were getting data from the surface of mars'
<polpolio1> watch
<HT[mobile]> Confirmed then?
<polpolio1> the first picture will be upside down
<dsockwell> GIVE PICTURES
<achtung> PICTURES
<HT[mobile]> Awsum
<achtung> OHFUUCK
<polpolio1> pics or it didn't happen
<redsniper> show pics
<Cobra> Um
<Cobra> So
<redsniper> plz to be showing images
<Cobra> I start thinking about how some of this ****'s fake again
<Cobra> We're getting data in real time from MARS
<redsniper> not real time
<achtung> 14 minutes later
<polpolio1> as real time as it gets
<Cobra> Well still
<achtung> don't tell me you're one of those...
<Cobra> only 14 minutes from Mars
<Cobra> Well
<polpolio1> you literally cannot get any more real time
<Esarai> WOOOOOOO
<Cobra> think of it like this
<Esarai> WOOOO
<Esarai> IMAGE
<polpolio1> without being on mars
<dsockwell> wooot
<Cobra> We can supposedly talk to people on the moon
<Cobra> in real time
<Esarai> f**k yeah, science
<Cobra> on the first try
<redsniper> there's a lag for the moon too...
<Cobra> fifty years ago
<dsockwell> that ****'s easy
<Cobra> BUT
<dsockwell> there's a lag for all radio communications
<dsockwell> even a foot apart
<Cobra> I can't ****ing call my security controller out in the missile field
<Cobra> over the radio
<achtung> different scenarios
<Cobra> It's just facts like that give me a nagging sense of disbelief in the back of my mind
<achtung> don't be dense
<achtung> different hardware
<Esarai> and different operating conditions
<redsniper> more money and effort was put into the communications hardware for the ****ING MOON LANDING than was put into your walkie
<Cobra> Hahaha nice
<redsniper> PICTURES!
<redsniper> MARS!
<redsniper> **** year
<Cobra> finally a higher-resolutiion picture
<CommanderDJ> 256x256
<Esarai> lawl
<polpolio1> super hi-res
<Cobra> It needs windshield wipers
<Esarai> I sure hope to god they put something more powerful onboard
<achtung> NIGGA THATS LINUX
<redsniper> color plz
<achtung> OR UNIX
<polpolio1> FREE AS IN FREEDOM
<Goober5000> USA is now 7 for 8 on Mars landing attempts
<Cobra> **** unix/linux
<polpolio1> **** you
<redsniper> rest of the world, are you even trying?
<achtung> Cobra, you seem to be in a sore mood tonight.
<polpolio1> GPL4eva
<Cobra> What's the Odyssey's mission?
<achtung> Your jimmies.
<Cobra> achtung: meh.
<achtung> They seem... rustled.
<polpolio1> they are rustled
<Mort> To find rocks for proof that Mars was favourable for life
<Cobra> I'm stuck on a night shift sleep schedule
<Cobra> I'm only just now eating
<Mort> something like that
<Cobra> ****en starving
<Cobra> Is the atmosphere currently too thin for life?
<redsniper> and too lacking in oxygen
<redsniper> iirc
<polpolio1> we mars now
<redsniper> and too cold
<polpolio1> there's plenty of oxygen on mars
<Goober5000> Viking 1, Viking 2, Mars Pathfinder, (Mars Polar Lander), Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix, Curiosity
<polpolio1> problem is it's all in the dirt
<achtung> I bet that's Scientific Linux.
<redsniper> which was the one that crashed because they mixed their units?
<Goober5000> the one in parentheses
<Cobra> lol
<redsniper> which was phoenix?
<Cobra> profanity
<Cobra> with a little girl in the room. D:
<achtung> Phoenix was not a rover.
<Goober5000> it was sort of Mars Polar Landar redux
<Cobra> someone will be piiiiised
<redsniper> was it stationary?
<Goober5000> yes
<polpolio1> well are they going to talk about science anymore or is the stream just high fives now
<redsniper> imma go to bed
<redsniper> but that was cool
<redsniper> mars
<Cobra> looks like mostly happt times now
<Cobra> We will make the warrior planet our *****
<Goober5000> hugs all around
<Mort> Now to put a man on mars
* Cobra hugs goober
<Cobra> I LOVE YOU BRO
<Goober5000> I love you too bro
<achtung> mohawk is crying
<Cobra> lol
<Cobra> that is the gayest mohawk i've ever seen
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<Cobra> so
<Cobra> no more images
<Cobra> dafuq'
<polpolio1> the orbiter is out of range
<Cobra> so is your face
<Goober5000> also Cobra, the parachute deployed, so you owe me $20
<achtung> You still seem upset.
<achtung> Yeah.
<Cobra> ***** I never saw you agree
<polpolio1> you can give me $20 too
<Cobra> you either
<Goober5000> you never saw us disagree
<Goober5000> also, Obama needs to effing uncancel NASA's participating in ExoMars
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<dsockwell> and stop being black
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<achtung> let's hope russia launches another ****up
<achtung> america #1
<Goober5000> dude, ExoMars WOULD BE that for Russia
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<Goober5000> much as I enjoy USA being #1, I don't want ExoMars to crash and burn like Phobos-Grunt did
<achtung> I'm kidding really.
<achtung> I hope more nations get there.
<achtung> It'll make our government stop ****ing around.
<achtung> So we can get people there.
<achtung> I think landing on an asteroid should be NASA's goal though.
<achtung> I think there's some serious private interest in getting people to mars.
<achtung> Just from rich nerds.
<Goober5000> wow
<Goober5000> horizontal touchdown velocity was 0.044 m/s
<dsockwell> yeah asteroid rendezvous is the next step
<dsockwell> because coming home from asteroids is cheap
<Goober5000> we already rendezvoused with asteroids
<Goober5000> we even landed on one
<dsockwell> not people
<dsockwell> just robots
<achtung> asteroids can offer immediate financial benefit too.
<achtung> I really hope planetary resources gets off the ground.
<achtung> we future now
<dsockwell> oh yeah
<dsockwell> i forgot all about them
<dsockwell> are they still going to move an asteroid into lunar orbit?
<achtung> They're working on their mini-sats.
<achtung> Just did a round of hiring.
<dsockwell> sweet
<achtung> Things seem to be moving forward.
<achtung> I want to work for them soooo bad.
<dsockwell> me too
<dsockwell> i dont care if i'm totally incompetent
<achtung> I'd ****ing clean the floors really.
<achtung> I'd just want to be there. >_>
<dsockwell> so ****ing cool
<dsockwell> i'm happy i woke up for this
<dsockwell> instead of sleeping all day
<achtung> It was fun watching NASA win the space olympics, yes.

WE MARS NOW

It's on record that Cobra owes us $20 now. 

[Herra Tohtori]

This is damn impressive.

[Rodo]

Indeed quite awesome, they caught it right in descent!

Anyone knows when are we getting hi-rez color images from the surface?, checked the calendar but it's empty and could not find an article mentioning that so far, nasa's site is kinda difficult to navigate.

[FireSpawn]

It's on record that Cobra owes us $20 now. 

is that each, or between? Because I will thumb war the **** out of everyone here, to lay sole claim to that cash.

[watsisname]

<Cobra> $20 says the parachute fails to deploy

*spectacular photo of successfully deployed parachute taken from MRO*

 

edit:
While on the subject of Mars craft photographed during their descent , I quite like this one of the Phoenix Lander.  The shallow angle gives it a wonderful sense of scale.

[Nuke]

It's on record that Cobra owes us $20 now. 

is that each, or between? Because I will thumb war the **** out of everyone here, to lay sole claim to that cash.

he should just donate it to hlp.