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- dominic2, on 05/27/2008, -4/+180thank you for using a decent title! theirs were:
'Best. Image. Ever.' and 'OMG!! Parachute!!!! Photo!!!!!' - jschmoe, on 05/27/2008, -6/+180I am in awe.
You said it, Phil: This is what we can do. - BadAstronomer, on 05/27/2008, -2/+91In fact, as a rocket scientist myself, I have a pretty clear idea of how this was done, and how incredibly difficult it was to do.
- allengeer, on 05/27/2008, -4/+77"We choose to do the thing that are hard in this decade and the next, not because they are easy but because they are hard." -jfk
An inspiration for the labor of man. Because we dare to do what we cannot, we learn and grow together as one species. This is not a success for one nation, or one group of nations. This is a success and inspiration for all of mankind. A reason to unite. A reason to dream. A reason to hope that we can accomplish things far greater if we work together instead of quarrel over petty insignificant differences. - 3amboo, on 05/27/2008, -0/+69we're the ones who make UFO's in other worlds! how cool!
- Taikun, on 05/27/2008, -3/+72Wow, this gave me goosebumps.
Reminds me of an equally amazing picture the MRO took of Opportunity awhile back, tire tracks and all.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/10/06/best ... - sockpuppets, on 05/27/2008, -1/+58Mars was made in China, you know.
- fugeelama, on 05/27/2008, -2/+57Direct link:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/p ... - inactive, on 05/27/2008, -3/+56Engineers & scientists, rejoice!
- raydeen, on 05/27/2008, -4/+45"These are some of the things that hydrogyn atoms can do given 15 billion years of stellar evolution." -Carl Sagan
- mooninite, on 05/27/2008, -2/+41Congressmen used his cell phone to capture live video at JPL.
http://qik.com/video/86776 - fuzzmeister, on 05/27/2008, -0/+38The amazing quality of it is not so much that we were able to take the picture with the MRO, but rather that we have multiple advanced man-made objects on another planet.
- mark076h, on 05/27/2008, -0/+35i was wondering why its red
- wreckosaurus, on 05/27/2008, -0/+33That was such a retarded comment I thought for sure you were joking. But looking at your comment history it appears you're just insane.
- sgiffy, on 05/27/2008, -0/+32Lets see, you have to take into account a 15 minute delay in any command, calculate the entry trajectory into an alien world with varying climatic affects, realign an orbiting satellite, and do all to capture a very fast, very small, probe as it lands. And thats just the tip of the iceberg
It would be like rigging a camera on the empire state building to catch the a shot of the ball during opening pitch at Yankee stadium 15 minutes before the game starts. Oh yeah, and you have to do from the moon using robots and rockets. - inactive, on 05/27/2008, -0/+28its just the lead paint
- Zorkon, on 05/27/2008, -4/+30Sure. Newborn baby, beautiful sunrise. Fern leaves. Amazing. Sure, maybe the first time you saw them. Then maybe the third, fourth, tenth, twentieth ... but after awhile, it just wears off you know? Try changing a newborn's diapers every day? Yeah, that'll pretty much transmute your amazement from "wow! a newborn!" to a "Holy crap, what in heaven did this kid EAT to produce all this?" kind of amazement.
Hello. We built two complex machines. Flung them into space, communicated with them over radio (with a 15 minute lagtime due to the speed of light limitation), synchronized them so that one could take a photo of the other as it was plunging through the Martian atmosphere ... and you feel *no* amazement?
You sir, are cold and dead inside. - sockpuppets, on 05/27/2008, -0/+26Let's see you put a robot on another planet.
- BadAstronomer, on 05/27/2008, -1/+21Hmmm, got any evidence for that claim?
- CharlesDance, on 05/27/2008, -1/+18Yeah i can see it too!
I've turned the contrast up a bit so you can see it more clearly.
I think it's just the rock on Mars' surface:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/479/marsrj0.jpg - wubblie, on 05/27/2008, -0/+17See that little dot up there in the sky? It is a planet. We have a satellite orbiting that planet, and we sent a lander there. It took the lander 9 months, traveling at 6 times the speed of an SR-71 to get there, and the satellite took this picture of the lander as it touched down on the surface of that dot. How can you not be amazed by that? Go outside and look at Mars tonight.
- MewTwo, on 05/27/2008, -0/+16Person did not read the article.
- aethelberga, on 05/27/2008, -0/+15You're a bit of a buzzkill, aren't you?
- wubblie, on 05/27/2008, -8/+23But Barack Obama told us “NASA has lost focus and is no longer associated with inspiration.”
Nasa will be launching up the largest component of the ISS next Saturday as well. Now, Mr. Obama, what were you saying about wanting to cut NASA's budget? - deadlift, on 05/27/2008, -1/+16Pics or it didn't happen
- EmitStop, on 05/27/2008, -2/+15Now that's pretty ***** awesome, it's hard to imagine that we are able to do all of this from hundreds of millions of miles away.
- Laminarcissus, on 05/27/2008, -5/+18And somewhere out there are energy-based life forms, reading his blog directly from his mind two days before he even writes it, and they conclude that what might be take as mankind's hubris is really the same courage and curiosity that allowed them to take such huge evolutionary leaps. What they have done is what we can do.
So they shift themselves across light years with a mere thought, come to earth, take corporeal form, and anal probe the bejesus out of us.. - flip2trip, on 05/27/2008, -0/+13And there's no one there to see it.
- norman619, on 05/27/2008, -0/+12What?
- ParanoydAndroid, on 05/27/2008, -0/+12Nah, it just takes a ti-83 plus.
- SmurfSlut, on 05/27/2008, -0/+12I nearly died while taking my first and only Physics course in college.
I dont even want to know what kind of Physics and Math knowledge it would require to pull this off - CptBuck, on 05/27/2008, -3/+15To be fair, "Best. Image. Ever." is what Phil called it on the BA website. I'm inclined to say that from a human progress standpoint this one is probably in the running.
- fowleryo, on 05/27/2008, -3/+15what a great quote, "Never, ever forget: we did this. This is what we can do."
- iDiggIt42, on 05/27/2008, -0/+11You had me until "c'mon".
- jmkiii, on 05/27/2008, -4/+15Actually, newborns are not amazing at all.
- NoGodsNoMasters, on 05/27/2008, -5/+15Amazing.
- bxblox, on 05/27/2008, -0/+10You're a brain surgeon aren't you?
- GliTCH82, on 05/27/2008, -0/+9If you're going to quote JFK, do it right:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. " - John F. Kennedy (9/12/62)
Setting decade goals for things like that sure make NASA's goal to return to the moon by 2019 (as set in 2004) seem totally weak. Nevermind Mars. - Setter, on 05/27/2008, -4/+13Congratulations and thanks to everyone behind this great confluence of technology.
- 3amboo, on 05/27/2008, -2/+10si se puede!
- krnldmp, on 05/27/2008, -1/+9Nobody needs your dopey kid either.
- nreynolds, on 05/27/2008, -1/+9he said it because when a story on digg has no comments, there's a little thing that says "can you hear the echo?" That said, I have no preference one way or the other about his comment.
- GliTCH82, on 05/27/2008, -0/+8The hell are you talking about? He didn't say it was his official job title, he just said he was a rocket scientist, which is a valid claim.
- btc08, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7Way to go NASA! Good to have you back.
- HappyScrappy, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7Hell, anyone can make a newborn baby with no math at all.
A newborn baby is wonderful because of all the hope and promise involved. But a newborn baby isn't any kind of amazing technical achievement.
This is. - Joedog, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7It takes the MRO about 7 minutes to set up and take an image with the Hires camera.
The entire entry landing and decent was only 7 minutes so they got only one shot at this image and they nailed it.
I agree with aethelberga WHAT A BUZZ KILL!! - aptanalogy, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7Your comment sucks.
- HappyScrappy, on 05/27/2008, -1/+7That site is down. badastronomy isn't.
Not sure why you don't like badastronomy. -
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