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2.5 BILLION to NASA is like the price of a cup of coffee to normal folks.
Anyone watching the Mars rover landing?
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New #53
It would help a few people, that's for sure.
I'd rather see 2.5 Billion spent on research than on wars etc.that said im fully in support of space exploration as there have been many breakthroughs ,inventions etc that have come around as a result.
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I'm looking forward to the higher res 'colour' pics when they deploy the mast.
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Water and Sanitationabout 600 million people— who lack access to basic sanitation could be reached with a total investment of $3 billion, providing welfare benefits that are four to seven times higher.
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Really amazing that it landed well considering it was dropped from a hovering rocket. Well done NASA.
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True Resistance is Futile since we've managed to crash 70% of Mars landers.
Curiosity may have made a large burn since it's nuclear powered.
Third pic from the rover.
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It looks like Earth :) Still find it amazing, these are rocks on Mars!
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-ima...000E1_DXXX.jpg
It's not a shark, but it's still frikkin amazing!
NASA rover Curiosity shoots a Mars rock with laser
Curiosity shoots Martian rock with laser - Technology & science - Space - NBCNews.com"Yes, I've got a laser beam attached to my head. I'm not ill-tempered; I zapped a rock for science." Then it signed off "#PewPew," a nerd reference to the sound lasers make when discharged.
NASA also released a report describing the laser test. The rock was "fist-sized," and was designated "Coronation." It was, says NASA, "the first rock on any extraterrestrial planet to be investigated with such a laser test."
"Each pulse delivered more than a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second," the report continues. "The energy from the laser excited atoms in the rock into an ionized, glowing plasma."
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