Curiosity

[STLRamsFan]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57486873-76/curiosity-closes-in-on-mars-for-high-stakes-descent/

First time I've heard of this to be quite honest. Hope this goes well! Would be cool to learn a bit more about Mars.

[Zeph]

There have been a couple of TV specials. It's one of the biggest things the science community has to try and drive funding for future events. The sheer logistics of it are more complicated and intense than any military operation ever yet the budget for such things is abysmal.

[TVTyrant]

Watching I, Caveman right now lol

[Timo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU

Can't wait!

[BobtheGreatII]

It's funny. I watch that stuff, but then forget how big Curiosity actually is:

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/_photos/2012/07/18/Newest-Mars-Curiosity-rover-aims-for-accuracy-5L1SQ29J-x-large.jpg

[Higuy]

Going to be crazy and awesome, cant wait. My friend works at NASA and this all he ever talks about lol.

[JackalStomper]

Been following this for years, excited to hear how the landing goes!

[EX12693]

A guy in the car club I'm part of actually works at JPL and is a part of this.

[rossmum]

Imagine how much more awesome shit NASA could do if the US spent less money blowing up brown people and more money blowing up rocks. On Mars.

Space rules.

[Dozo]

space rules.
.

[Bodzilla]

it's days like tomorrow
where i'm like,


Yeah we're not ALL bad

[EX12693]

it's days like tomorrow
where i'm like,


Yeah why don't we have more scientists.

[Kornman00]

it's days like tomorrow
where i'm like,


Yeah why don't we have more scientists.
Because the cold war ended and we went back to conventional wars (against unconventional enemies)

[=sw=warlord]

it's days like tomorrow
where i'm like,


Yeah why don't we have more scientists.

:Area51:

[Timo]

Hope you guys are watching!

Virtual view: http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml
Livestream: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

16 minutes to entry, 24 minutes to touchdown as of this post!

[neuro]

error, the request could not be satisfied :/

are you fucking kidding me?


edit: java was disabled lol

[Zeph]

shift f5 until it works

[JackalStomper]

landed successfully, never seen so many people going nuts over a 64x64 thumbnail

[Timo]

https://p.twimg.com/Azl5SzUCEAAyouJ.jpg

[neuro]

awh yeah bitches, shit worked perfectly

[Zeph]

landed successfully, never seen so many people going nuts over a 64x64 thumbnail
I was going ape shit over that. It's so fucking crazy that we not only had a soft landing on the surface of another planet, but we had two images broadcasted back to us before people had a chance to finish congratulating everyone.

[Rainbow Dash]

yay

[Siliconmaster]

Dude that landing was so fucking cool. Watched with my brother, it was such a strange and awesome experience to see it happen in real time. And I agree with you Zeph, seeing pictures almost instantly is mindblowing.

[jcap]

This is awesome. It's incredible how this unbelievably complex landing sequnce worked flawlessly. I don't remember the exact number off the top of my head, but they said during the live stream that the touchdown velocity was something like a few thousands of a m/s. The landing couldn't have been more gentle.

And then within minutes of its confirmed landing, we received the first pictures.


And as Colbert put it,

we know what's happening on mars sooner than NBC can tell us what's happening in London.

[rossmum]

not a fan of the 'FUCKIN AMERICA WOO YEAH' speeches, but FUCKIN SCIENCE, WOO YEAH

also lmao ron paul 2012 tards spamming up the ustream chat

[Bobblehob]

Absolutely incredible to watch. If you really want a laugh, go check /b/ right now.

[rossmum]

i seriously doubt that would result in laughing, as 4channers have the sense of humour of a four-year-old

[Bobblehob]

Oh you ;3 Just ruining everyones fun. The joke on /b/ is made to specifically piss off people like you, so yeah I guess you won't be laughing.

[rossmum]

that's a mighty convenient excuse for why nothing 4channers ever post is actually amusing to people with a properly-developed sense of humour, wouldn't you say

OH BUT GUYZ ITS FUNNI BCOZ THEY MAD LOL!!!

[TVTyrant]

that's a mighty convenient excuse for why nothing 4channers ever post is actually amusing to people with a properly-developed sense of humour, wouldn't you say

OH BUT GUYZ ITS FUNNI BCOZ THEY MAD LOL!!!
But but but it is funny because you mad :-3

[JackalStomper]

why would anyone in their right mind go to 4chan

let alone /b/

[Zeph]

not a fan of the 'FUCKIN AMERICA WOO YEAH' speeches, but FUCKIN SCIENCE, WOO YEAH

also lmao ron paul 2012 tards spamming up the ustream chat

shut up foreigner. no amount of your bitching will change that we're better than you.

[Kornman00]

landed successfully, never seen so many people going nuts over a 64x64 thumbnail
I thought Curiosity was suppose to have HD cameras, yet that's all it can crap out?

WHAT THE FUCK NASA? Y U N HAVE HD 3D VIDEOS YET?

[Zeph]

hmm, i wonder what the thumbnail is of...

[rossmum]

I thought Curiosity was suppose to have HD cameras, yet that's all it can crap out?

WHAT THE FUCK NASA? Y U N HAVE HD 3D VIDEOS YET?
those are from the hazard cams and being beamed up while odyssey is overhead

once curiosity is on the side of the planet facing us again, we should get better photos from the Real Cameras

[Kornman00]

hmm, i wonder what the thumbnail is of...
Your face, obviously. Guess it's good those cameras weren't HD :mech2:

[Zeph]

yeah, I hate looking in the mirror

[n00b1n8R]

Pretty sure they did the "HD" cam after the thumbnail (256x256).

[rossmum]

no, that was simply a higher res transmission of the same image, keep up

odyssey was only overhead for a very limited amount of time and they had other data that was actually more important coming through, so they had to make do with thumbnails that wouldn't take up their limited window of both bandwidth and time

[Zeph]

Yeah, at this point, images over the next couple of days are going to be showing up when there's spare bandwidth. When they deploy the main antennae it'll be able to broadcast much more to us.

[Dozo]

I love how during the livestream a few people in the chat were constantly asking a technician with a Mohawk to wave at the camera. Good times.

[Kornman00]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/551091_10152013157770078_1248162667_n.jpg
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Zeph]

compress it inward to match the field of view then blur it up a bit.

[Bodzilla]

why would anyone in their right mind go to 4chan

let alone /b/
because a heap of the other sections of the website are actually good.

[Timo]

As planned, the rover's early engineering images are lower resolution. Larger color images from other cameras are expected later in the week when the rover's mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Can't wait!

[Emmzee]

because a heap of the other sections of the website are actually good.
Demonstrably false.

[rossmum]

because a heap of the other sections of the website are actually good.
only because they have /b/ right next to them, put them against any other backdrop and the truth comes out

[neuro]

jesus you people, don't you know anything?

the first images you saw were from the hazard-cams, they're just there to make sure it landed properly, and is sitting properly on the ground, and not upside down or some shit.
they don't need HD iamges for that.
these are from minicams that are mounted on teh front and back and look down at the wheels.

the actual full spectrum and HD camera's etc are on the top, and would never be able to upload in the short amount of time they had to bounce the signal of the odyssey orbiter before it moved behind the mountain they're going to explore.

expect bigger images soon.

[Patrickssj6]

must be so frustrating controlling something with a 7 min lag xD or even 14 minutes...to receive the correct response.

[neuro]

well the things has up to 2 days worth of shit to do programmed into it, so even if it doesn't get a connection from earth, it'll still load around doing whatever, for 2 days, after which it'll go into a type of safemode, wondering where the fuck it's orders are.

also they upload scripts to it one at a time, which basically get qued up in order, so they don't actually 'control' dick, they upload a script, and it does what it's told.

it's more of a point-and-click adventure than a first person shooter.

[rossmum]

sickest adventure game ever

[JackalStomper]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8daczMeRM1r096l7o1_500.jpg

[Kornman00]

IF THAT WAS HD I WOULD BE ABLE TO ZOOM IN AND SEE MICROBES FUCKING! IN 3D! BUT I CAN'T!

GIVE US THE HD!

[=sw=warlord]

But microbes would means there's life on Mars, and That's already been trademarked :allears:

[Patrickssj6]

need stuxnet 2.0 giving me control over that rover

[BobtheGreatII]

Look! Mars!

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA16005_modest.jpg

It's like Earth, but in black and white!

[STLRamsFan]

http://news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-curiosity-color-photo-120807.html

Awesome, first color photo. Bout time!

[TVTyrant]

http://news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-curiosity-color-photo-120807.html

Awesome, first color photo. Bout time!
Why does it look like that place where the bad brown people live?

[Kornman00]

ffffffffffffffffff

Curiosty fell into a wormhole...and travelled into the future...to the future Earth

[Warsaw]

I expect to see some sandworms in the next photo.

[Kornman00]

IN 3D! BUT I CAN'T!
BUT NOW I CAN (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48573737/ns/technology_and_science-space/)!

[Kornman00]

Scumbag Curiosity (https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/196663_465264336827916_612192275_n.jpg)

[BobtheGreatII]

Ha ha ha ha.