WE LANDED ON MARS!

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Cackalacky said:
......This new rover is over 2000 lbs and has a super charged laboratory on it that will reveal much more about Mars. Getting this thing to Mars as well as to safely land it in an operational condition pushed the engineering envelope to its brink. Good on ya NASA. Yesterday was a great day for science, engineering and humanity.....
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another cool thing the rover (currently set for a 2 year operational window) will be doing is going into the near-by crater to analyze sedimentary layers on mars much in the same ways that layers are analyzed on earth. In the near-by crater they have access to exposed sedimentary layers. One question they hope to maybe find answers to is what formed non-volcanic mountains and other geological formations on mars? On earth, plate tectonics account for such geological features but on mars they believe plate tectonics does not exist....so how did non-volcanic mountains form on mars without plate tectonics?

fun fact: evidence of no plate tectonics on mars can be seen in the enormous size of Olympus Mons. The Volcano sits on an ancient hotspot, and since the crust on Mars never moves, the hotspot just kept spewing and spewing and building the volcano up and up till it is what can be seen today. Contrast that with the how the Hawaiian Islands are formed, or how the hotspot under Yellowstone seems to always be moving to the East. Without plate tectonics on Earth, there would be no Hawaiian Islands, it would be the Hawaiian Island
 
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the technology alone is what is so impressive about this. That video was incredible
 
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I said specifically that it was impressive. That doesn't change the fact that all of you thought that this was our first time there. Which it isn't. So while how we are now doing it is more innovative, it's not accomplishing anything new really.
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This is kind of presumptuous. I thought no such thing. That we got there at all 40 years ago is impressive in its own right, but as others have pointed out the engineering and technology that went into this current mission is heretofore unrivaled.
 
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Rhode Irish said:
This is kind of presumptuous. I thought no such thing. That we got there at all 40 years ago is impressive in its own right, but as others have pointed out the engineering and technology that went into this current mission is heretofore unrivaled.
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I wasn't talking to you Rhode. I was talking to the other guys, in particular, jason.

Furthermore, I already addressed the fact that I agree that it is an impressive mission. Albiet one that has been accomplished previously.
 
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The rover has spotted a welcoming party!

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In all seriousness, these missions are awesome. I have no doubt that some time in the future, we'll be very glad we're exploring space.
 
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tadman95 said:
We wouldn't have Velcro without NASA. 'nough said.
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Velcro is a company that produces the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s.

I'm sure there are many, many things that can be attributed to NASA and its work, but velcro is not one of them. Tang doesn't count either.
 
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Velcro is a company that produces the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s.

I'm sure there are many, many things that can be attributed to NASA and its work, but velcro is not one of them. Tang doesn't count either.
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The following is a list of technologies sometimes mistakenly attributed to NASA.[29] In some cases NASA popularized technology or aided its development.

Barcodes (NASA developed a special type of barcode, but this should not be mistaken for the original one.)
Cordless power tools (The first cordless power tool was unveiled by Black & Decker in 1961. It was used by NASA and a number of spinoff products came out of that.)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (NASA has, however, contributed to its advances over the years. MRI is best known as a device for body scanning.)
Quartz clocks (The quartz clock dates back to 1927. However in the late 1960s, NASA partnered with a company to make a quartz clock that was on the market for a few years.)
Smoke detectors (NASA’s connection to the modern smoke detector is that it made one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project.)
Tang juice powder (Tang was developed by General Foods in 1957, and it has been for sale since 1959. It was used in the first orbit missions, which gave awareness to it.)
Teflon (Invented for DuPont in 1938 and used on frying pans from the 1950s.[30] It has been applied by NASA to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners.)
Velcro (A Swiss invention from the 1940s. Velcro was used during the Apollo missions to anchor equipment for astronauts’ convenience in zero gravity situations.)

NASA spin-off technologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For a list of NASA developed products , they are too many to list here.

Full disclosure dictates I say that in most instances NASA had need of materials and products to work with and contracted and worked with private entities to develop said products.
 
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dshans said:
Velcro is a company that produces the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s.

I'm sure there are many, many things that can be attributed to NASA and its work, but velcro is not one of them. Tang doesn't count either.
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Well I'm just blown away. I've been hearing that my whole life. Screw NASA!!
 
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woolybug25 said:
I said specifically that it was impressive. That doesn't change the fact that all of you thought that this was our first time there. Which it isn't. So while how we are now doing it is more innovative, it's not accomplishing anything new really.
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Wait, so because you were likely oblivious to Curiosity, you try and save face by suggesting I had no idea that NASA had sent a rover to Mars before? That's probably why i was able to respond so quickly when you were so unimpressed by the technological advancements from Opportunity to Curiosity right? Sounds good dude.
 
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Another slightly subtler thing which NASA has often done is to take an existing idea, invention, or product and re-work it to fit the particular needs of missions. This re-working can lead to real advancements in that area trending towards more generally useful applications of the technology. Hydrogen Power cells are one such area which might ultimately save our butts from an energy crisis, physically or economically.
 
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Dude just put up 55 reps at NFL combine.....

J/K, he just landed a 2000 pound robot on another planet using heretofore untried engineering and science.
 
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Also if we get a man on mars first we can avoid anyone else trying to claim pieces of mars. And we'd probably get to make the rules on interplanetary travel and relations, which would be cool.
 
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Also if we get a man on mars first we can avoid anyone else trying to claim pieces of mars. And we'd probably get to make the rules on interplanetary travel and relations, which would be cool.
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Or it could go all DOOM..... just saying....

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NASA hasn't done jack since we went to the moon. We were going to the moon in the sixties and seventies, we should have a lunar base right now. China is going, will build a base there, and has plans to go to mars. Meanwhile, weve been screwing around with the shuttle for 30 years as well as the space station and neither were technically e en going into space. Now, we can't even send an astronaut to the space station without hit Ning a ride with the Russians. Sorry, but NASA doesn't exactly impress me or much of the American people.
 
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I wouldn't go into space with out Sigourney Weaver. '"F" those aliens.
 
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