# NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 26, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144 "2011-11-26T14:35:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/281 "2012-08-20T03:50:10Z")
> [@levdrakon](#):
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> Wow, it’s got a blaster that can vaporize rocks! Why didn’t we use these in Iraq???
It’s being tested on Mars for action in Iran. 😉
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/282 "2012-08-21T02:37:10Z")
The rock-vaporizing laser has indeed been [successfully tested](http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1315).
This rover is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/283 "2012-08-21T03:34:54Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> This rover is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it!
On what, Republicans? Iran? Pakistanis shooting American Advisers?
I’m going for meter maids.
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### Author:  [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/284 "2012-08-21T07:29:56Z")
Seems to me that Curiosity is playing a rather lop-sided game of laser tag.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/285 "2012-08-21T10:24:49Z")
That link says it’s “interrogating” rocks with that laser. We’ve created a monster. It’ll be waterboarding next, mark my words.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/286 "2012-08-21T22:31:23Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> That link says it’s “interrogating” rocks with that laser. We’ve created a monster. It’ll be waterboarding next, mark my words.
All the water on Mars being frozen, that would truly be torture.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/287 "2012-08-21T22:44:33Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> That link says it’s “interrogating” rocks with that laser. We’ve created a monster. It’ll be waterboarding next, mark my words.
Although, I did find “interrogating rocks” much cooler-sounding than this blasting and vaporizing which I suppose is technically true but I’m not 12.
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### Author:  [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/288 "2012-08-22T20:23:53Z")
> **[Mars Rover Curiosity Takes 1st Martian Test Drive, Sees Tracks (Photos)](https://www.space.com/17228-mars-rover-test-drive-tracks-pictures.html)**
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> NASA's Mars rover Curiosity appears to have taken its first Martian test drive on Aug. 22. Curiosity photographed tracks from the drive.
“Mars Rover Curiosity Takes 1st Martian Test Drive”
Then it turned around and saw where it had been.
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### Author:  [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/289 "2012-08-25T07:42:11Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#):
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> [Mars Rover Curiosity Takes 1st Martian Test Drive (Photos) | Space](http://www.space.com/17228-mars-rover-test-drive-tracks-pictures.html)
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> “Mars Rover Curiosity Takes 1st Martian Test Drive”
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> Then it turned around and saw where it had been.
Been there, done that.
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