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WE LANDED ON MARS FUGGYEAH!

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GANDALF
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PARTY AT NASA TONIGHT

Aug 6 2012 1:44AM
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.Hugo.
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Aug 6 2012 1:47AM
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PJS.
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Bolt, Pistorious, Mars? Pretty badass night.
Aug 6 2012 1:53AM
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Static
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Aug 6 2012 1:55AM
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Aug 6 2012 1:56AM
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EricaMN.
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Aug 6 2012 1:56AM
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DGski
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werd
Aug 6 2012 1:57AM
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Lé.Skiing
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I see your picture and raise you video


Aug 6 2012 1:58AM
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Static
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I've always wondered what that was from....
Aug 6 2012 1:58AM
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ThaLorax
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Damnit! The stream ended right after I clicked the link. I feel like I just missed out on history. Oh wait, I did.
Aug 6 2012 2:03AM
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Big5hifty
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FUCK i came in here to post this hahaha.
Aug 6 2012 2:04AM
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oil.
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we've done it before..
Aug 6 2012 2:06AM
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Parks.
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Sweeeet!
Aug 6 2012 2:16AM
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Static
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the stream wasn't anything special, just the control room nerds, and a couple crappy pictures once it landed
Aug 6 2012 2:19AM
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chicken
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WOOOO
Aug 6 2012 2:23AM
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Ski_Alot
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this thread made me erect.
Aug 6 2012 3:40AM
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LIL-WAT
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merica'
Aug 6 2012 3:45AM
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jorb.co
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didn't this happen a long time ago?
Aug 6 2012 4:19AM
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kstanz
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.
Aug 6 2012 4:21AM
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JayMeZZy
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yeah and it there weren't people on it so its not a big deal
Aug 6 2012 5:03AM
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Orrin
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Exciting stuff :D
Aug 6 2012 5:11AM
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Spinoza
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Holy shit: The spacecraft had been traveling away from Earth since November 26 on a journey of approximately 352 million miles (567 million kilometers), according to NASA.
Aug 6 2012 10:19AM
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ForeverYung
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Is my meter broken?
Aug 6 2012 10:28AM
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Alexander_Keith
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I'ma step in here and drop some knowledge. Yes we've landed on Mars before, beginning in 1997, but never like this. The Curiosity Rover, however, is no chump. It is the size of a small car. Height-wise it is taller than a person. It weighs a metric ton and its largest instrument is four times the size of the first Mars rover. It is the largest thing we have ever successfully landed on another planet. It has a laser & reader which can zap rocks and chemically identify the composition of the Martian sub surface. It landed in a deep depression in an area suspected to have once had running water. It is the first rover not powered by solar panels. They put a small plutonium reactor on this thing: Read, this thing is nuclear powered and could potentially be running around up there for up to 10 years. Its a hell of a scientific feat. Getting this thing up there successfully was a make or break for NASA. Woot
Aug 6 2012 10:30AM
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HamFaceGirl
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GO MANKIND
Aug 6 2012 10:42AM
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Cannaburner
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amen
Aug 6 2012 10:43AM
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HamFaceGirl
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http://www.accuweather.com/en/outdoor-articles/astronomy/greetings-from-mars-huge-nasa/69100
Aug 6 2012 10:44AM
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howlongcanausern
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*USA
Aug 6 2012 10:47AM
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theBearJew
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MANKIND. This ones bigger than just USA.
Aug 6 2012 10:49AM
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corona
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truth. The rover is a combined effort of many countries such as Canada, France, Spain, and Russia.

way to go world.
Aug 6 2012 11:09AM
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geteducated
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does anyone know the yield (kt) if it blew up?
Aug 6 2012 11:31AM
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Panda_with_Guns
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Hey, looks like they actually translated the metric units this time
Aug 6 2012 11:39AM
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howlongcanausern
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the rover/rocket were made in the US and paid for by NASA. yet again the US carries the world into the universe.
Aug 6 2012 11:41AM
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Algebra
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It would mabye reach saturns outer rings, according to NBC
Aug 6 2012 11:42AM
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SpookyCat
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Uhhh... congrats on finding out how far away Mars is? I guess?
Aug 6 2012 12:00PM
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CrotchKiller
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ooh
Aug 6 2012 12:39PM
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Edew19
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Mars and Earth are constantly changing distances from one another.  They don't revolve in unison...
Aug 6 2012 8:03PM
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LoathesRaisins
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Aug 6 2012 8:48PM
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Bill.Nye
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Thankfully they remembered to do their metric/imperial conversions this time.
Aug 6 2012 8:53PM
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jtucker29
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exactly
Aug 6 2012 8:59PM
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artfullydodged
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Fuck yea mankind! Why aren't we all more excited about this?

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Aug 6 2012 9:10PM
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icyburr
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why have you not been banned yet. Also that is sick. Fuck yea mankind
Aug 6 2012 9:13PM
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