Curiosity Rover Landing Tonight

[Harthan]

Early next morning, technically speaking. The Curiosity Rover is scheduled to touch down at 1:30 Eastern time and will be the most advanced rover to touch down on Mars, with ten times the mass of scientific instruments than previous rovers. This exciting mission is designed to:

"
Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life
Study the climate of Mars
Study the geology of Mars
Plan for a human mission to Mars
"

It can be watched live on NASA's website. Anyone going to be watching? I certainly am. I think this is arguably the biggest landing event since the first moon landing.

 

[Lee]

Holy fuck!

Curiosity killed the cat. Dogs hate cats. A common dog name is Rover.

They're sending a DOG TO MARS!

 

[justinsayne]

Wouldn't it just be easier to find a Thern medallion & teleport to Mars, or as the natives call it Barsoom, like John Carter did?

 

[The Talon]

We better get some huge-ass findings from this.

 

[justinsayne]

We better get some huge-ass findings from this.

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[The Talon]

Go fuck yourself. I didn't even insult you or anyone else.

 

[ABMorales787]

Go fuck yourself. I didn't even insult you or anyone else.

Nah, not at all.

 

[Bernkastel]

And here I thought the space program was dead. I guess it's our ingenuity combined with Russia's rockets.

 

[Harthan]

I'm super excited about this, FYI. About 3 hours to go.

 

[JGlass]

I was reading about this in the paper this morning. Sounds like it's going to be a tough landing. Doubt it'll be anymore interesting than Breaking Bad, though.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

We better get some huge-ass findings from this.

You should get your hopes up. You really should.


Of course Mars was able to sustain life. A highly civilized, advanced population once inhabited that rock. True story.


No, seriously, that's probably true.

 

[JGlass]

You should get your hopes up. You really should.


Of course Mars was able to sustain life. A highly civilized, advanced population once inhabited that rock. True story.


No, seriously, that's probably true.

I've been playing Mass Effect, and their findings confirm this. We're probably going to stumble across a cache of ancient alien technology that will catapult us forward 200 years in technological advancement.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

I've been playing Mass Effect, and their findings confirm this. We're probably going to stumble across a cache of ancient alien technology that will catapult us forward 200 years in technological advancement.

Billions of years ago. We couldn't be that lucky.

Also, Talon wants it to happen. We're fucked.

 

[shattered dreams]

New avatar time is confusing.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

New avatar time is confusing.

 

[Muffin Top Merkley]

Just started watching. Did I miss the landing?

EDIT: Also, I only understand a few of the words that they are using.