So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/

I think it is quite a feat of engineering to have some dinner table sized lander spend 9.5 months traveling through space to land in a predetermined area...
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Re: So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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Any spacecraft that uses a weather rock as an actual instrument kicks ass.

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Re: So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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I think there's way too much happening in the world right now for people to put too much attention on this.... it's unfortunate though because as you said... it is quite impressive. I still hope they build Enterprise before I die :mrgreen:
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Re: So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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I thought it was cool...
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I've been keeping an eye since the landing - very cool stuff! They figure they've already found ice... right beneath the lander! :D

Also... the space shuttle launched yesterday evening - quite the show there as well :)
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Re: So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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Is that m a r v i n ?? :mrgreen:
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Re: So who here gives a rats ass about the Mars Phoenix landing?

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2R wrote:Is that m a r v i n ?? :mrgreen:

Oh damn, I thought it was Al Gore.....

This makes the little kid/geek inside of me smile with nerdy glee
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