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Just Landed: Curiosity Rover

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FerrisBueller
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^Second image received within minuets of touchdown.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/


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fujarome
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it's insane that these days we land on mars, and 10 minutes later anyone on the internet can see pictures from the surface of mars.

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ryano
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beat me to it. i was just gonna post this.

pretty crazy..
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FerrisBueller
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yeah it blows my mind that i could screen cap those and get it to ns that fast, it physically landed like 16 mins ago..
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fujarome
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louis armstrong and buzz lightyear must find this to be insane, considering how to see them walk on the sun, it was a black and white image that didn't even work properly at first.
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ryano
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walk on the sun huh? luls...
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fujarome
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have you ever seen ali g interview buzz aldrin?
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Aidan-G
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fujarome
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I also hope you noticed louis armstrong and buzz lightyear.

I absolutely love nasa and space stuff. when i was younger i read everything i could find about the apollo program
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blatt
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Seems like lots of people don't realize how big of a deal this is for engineering. Landing a car-sized object on mars is a huge accomplishment for applying physics and math into a final product. Really excited to see what we find out about Mars, the possibilities are essentially endless.
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Dr.Dickless
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More importantly they landed a car sized rover on mars in the most complicated way possible...

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Static
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woah it's like even if the numbers are really big, math still works
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chicken
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anyone else have a mars rover party? was awesome!
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theBearJew
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PON3
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Thats pretty neat. I think it would be funny if there actually was life there and they see this huge thing drop a car sized object from the sky and just fly away. They would be like wtf? haha

Or if it happened here on earth from another being!!!! that would be nuts
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El_Barto.
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lol
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Huck_Norris
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So true.  It will all be worth it when we find the first three-tittied space sloot. 

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joris.blanc
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Just watch this it seem's like the engineers where high when designing the landing.
It is crazy all the little things that has to work perfectly for it to land safely, imagine all that could go wrong...

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.MintBerryCrunch
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theBearJew
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that was awesome.
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2_fadez
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YoungChristmas
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It's crazy to think that we've only been able to achieve flight for a little over 100 years. We've gone from flying a few hundred feet to landing on mars.
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eheath
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... weve landed on mars before
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Spinoza
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haha so funny
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Steeze_Minister
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Its amazing, but its also amazing they couldnt install a color camera
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Dlud
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He didn't say we haven't
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Travapple.
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You just wait. There will be bigger color pics later this week according to NASA.
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Bloc_chain
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I imagine transmitting a high res color image from mars to earth will take a bit of time
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theBearJew
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They dont have WiFi on Mars?
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ForeverYung
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Do love me some space sloots
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Travapple.
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bahahahahaha
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.MintBerryCrunch
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Not yet....
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powderdrunkie
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anyone seen this?

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theBearJew
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Everyone has WiFi, even the DMV. Why did we even bother going to a place without Wifi. Honestly, what a waste of money.
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.MintBerryCrunch
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I'm not sure where I think it may have been CNN but I remember reading that their main goal is to install wifi, pretty sure that's why they built this thing.
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PJS.
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space themed facepalm!

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theBearJew
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Oh, well then that all makes sense. Good to hear that the Earth is reaching out to 3rd world planets and trying to help where we can.
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Huck_Norris
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Hahahahahahaha

As if the black and white sand pic was so riveting that we're all dying to see color...  FYI it'll be...  You guessed it...  Red. 

Is anyone bored now that it landed?  Wake me up when they find something. 

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Zimmerman
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Damn I remember when they launched this thing.
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