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Phoenix Mars Landing Live Thread (7:53 PM EST)
05/25/08
| Kevin Davis
Posted on 05/25/2008 6:14:29 AM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: KevinDavis
No... I don’t think God was stupid enough just to create on planet that can contain life among billions upon billions of starts... Or, as they say in one of my favorite movies, if we are alone, it sure is a huge waste of space.
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:22:06 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
To: hoagy62
I thought it would take them 15 minutes to get any feedback so I wasn’t expecting to hear a confirmation on that for another ten minutes or so, but they just confirmed it. :0 How’d they do that?
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:23:47 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:24:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
To: Floratina; All
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:24:39 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Who is Obama's Puppet Master???)
To: raygun
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is targeted to land in a flat valley in the arctic plains of Mars, at the center of the blue ellipse shown here. It is most likely to touch down at the very center, and least likely to land at the ellipse's edges. The ellipse is approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) long and 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide. The black pock-looking mark above and to the left of the center of the ellipse is a small pile of rocks, informally referred to as "The Hill," which is less than a few meters (less than 10 feet) tall and more than one kilometer (about one mile) in diameter. The circular indentation outside and to the right of the ellipse is an impact crater dubbed "Heimdall," after the Norse mythological watchman, or protector, of gods. The map shown here is made up of topography data taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. It shows exaggerated differences in the height of the terrain.
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:26:02 PM PDT
by
Aristotelian
("Sock it to me!" Judy Carne)
To: KevinDavis
Spelled “Fuk Li”
Did his mommy not like him?
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:26:08 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
(Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
To: neodad; All
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:26:14 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Who is Obama's Puppet Master???)
To: Calvin Locke
I'm really ready to give up cable.
Just give up on Faux News Channel - their coverage in general panders to the lowest common denominator and they try to create drama where there is none or try to only focus on the sensationlistic aspects. Most of us here are definitely not their target demographic.
To: hoagy62; All
Austin Powers comes to mind..
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:26:57 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Who is Obama's Puppet Master???)
To: Calvin Locke
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:27:16 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
To: Aristotelian
Phoenix will land further north than previous missions
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:28:38 PM PDT
by
Aristotelian
("Sock it to me!" Judy Carne)
To: af_vet_rr; All
I gave up on the news channels period..
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:29:46 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Who is Obama's Puppet Master???)
To: Aristotelian
Cool tagline!
“Sock it to me?” Richard Nixon
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:30:18 PM PDT
by
airborne
(LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
To: neodad
Or, as they say in one of my favorite movies, if we are alone, it sure is a huge waste of space.
Yup. All of the work on Mars and the Moon, hopefully when we start sending people to both, it will ignite some of the passion we once had - once upon a time we were a nation of pioneers. Nowadays we are simply settlers, settling for anything.
To: KevinDavis
Is there a reason these mars landings always take place on holidays?
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:30:23 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
To: Aristotelian
The Science Channel on cable TV is also carrying live coverage of the Mars landing.
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:31:09 PM PDT
by
Aristotelian
("Sock it to me!" Judy Carne)
To: KevinDavis
Eight minutes to cruise stage separation.
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:32:10 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Aristotelian
Eight Minutes to cruise station sep....
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:32:10 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
(Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
To: af_vet_rr; All
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:32:44 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Who is Obama's Puppet Master???)
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