Curiousity with previous rovers
Posted on 08/05/2012 11:04:03 AM PDT by hattend
Of course not. Many of us religious people would like to know, and evidence of life on other planets would have zero connection to the existence or no existence of god. But you must realize that among the lefty atheistic science is god crowd, they believe that anything discovered not mentioned in the bible is such.
I tried to look up the Curiosity inception date, when the mission planning began, and I couldn’t find it.
I’m tired so I’m not being very creative in my search parameters.
Things have changed. A lot of scientists and engineers believe in God.
Evidently not. Sad sad fact isn’t it...
Sometimes yes, and sometimes er what.
And the first part of that response drives the Pres__ent Resident crazy.
;^)
I’m dog tired. I’m going to go now and respond to you in the morning. Otherwise my response will be incoherent.
Take care...
Downplays it? Downplays it?
No way!
Did he downplay how he killed Osama? He did not!
The success in the landing of Curiosity was even more complex, more difficult, more intellectually challenging than taking out Osama.
And as he did that, he did this!
In sum, you didn’t build that. I didn’t build that. Only he, and he alone, did that!
So your concern that he might play this down is, I think, misplaced.
This will be his Shining Hour!!
Oh, yes, almost forgot <\s> Just in case.
25 minutes to the next Odyssey pass and an upload of photos. This time with the dust-covers off of the camera lenses!
But I can claim a small consultation role in designing the packaging (mounting) for the main CCD imager chip on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Curiousity with previous rovers
Bush's fault.
As great as an achievement as this was (and I actually worked on a small part of the cruise stage - I work for a contractor), there is a down side. The Kenyan muslim (or better yet, the offspring of communist Frank Marshall Davis) is going to make idiots think that he designed it, built it, launched it and operated the controls and landed it real time. Just like he has acted like he was with the Seals and fired the bullet that took out bin Laden.
I listened to a few minutes of Coast to Coast AM this morning, the usual Men from Mars were on.
One guest opined that Oh-Bah-Mah's October surprise would be the announcement that NASA had confirmed that there was life on Mars, and that would "put Obama over the top" for the election. He also spouted some drivel about the deficit not mattering as Obama's Mars mission would create prosperity throughout the 21st century, or something like that. Obligingly, Noory agreed.
Couldn't listen to any more of that stuff.
?
Bump For Morning
MONDAY BUMP for landing on Mars
Great pic! That thing is the monster truck of Mars rovers.
Obama will praise this accomplishment to the hilt prior to election. It’s great to be an American etc.etc.. If he gets re-elected it will be changed to, the billions we spent on this program would have been put to better use here on earth, blah blah blah. I can see it coming.
Sure beats 2 Minutes Hate.
When it’s all about “The Won” they just can’t help themselves.
Obama doesn’t like American exceptionalism but if it fits his agenda, he’ll take credit for it.
Narcissism
Last image they put up was this one, taken without the Dust Cover:
Original Caption Released with Image:
This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the rover. The image is one-half of full resolution. The clear dust cover that protected the camera during landing has been sprung open. Part of the spring that released the dust cover can be seen at the bottom right, near the rover's wheel.
On the top left, part of the rover's power supply is visible.
Some dust appears on the lens even with the dust cover off.
The cameras are looking directly into the sun, so the top of the image is saturated. Looking straight into the sun does not harm the cameras. The lines across the top are an artifact called "blooming" that occurs in the camera's detector because of the saturation.
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
Image Addition Date:
2012-08-06
The JPL's Mars Science Lab Multimedia Images has it and the others taken through the clear (dusty) lens covers. They also expanded the upper right side, and said that was the wall of the crater Curiosity is looking at in that direction, but they didn't post it yet.
I also caught the Press Conference, and it seemed to me that Bolden got a slight zinger in to Soetoro/Obama and Holdren when he went off his 'scripted remarks' at the beginning of his comments. To be honest I was tuning them out, but I haven't located a video of it yet to verify it.
All in all - a very good accomplishment by a great team at NASA. Thanks all.
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