# 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:** 20 **Page:** 8
### Author: ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/141 "2012-08-06T05:40:55Z")
Fuck the Olympics. That was a much better show of human determination and talent. Great job NASA! I wasn’t born yet when the first moon landings happened but I think I got a touch of the same feeling from this one. ---
### Author: ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/142 "2012-08-06T05:41:01Z")
Well, color me duly impressed. That was pretty amazing. ---
### Author: ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/143 "2012-08-06T05:42:04Z")
Yeah science! ---
### Author: ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/144 "2012-08-06T05:42:13Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Fuck the Olympics. That was a much better show of human determination and talent. Great job NASA! I wasn’t born yet when the first moon landings happened but I think I got a touch of the same feeling from this one. Well put. I’m veklempt (sp?). Amazing they can get pictures so fast. Man, that could have gone wrong SO many ways. But it didn’t! ---
### Author: ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/145 "2012-08-06T05:42:17Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Its a decepticon > > Declan Quick, get Shia LeBouf on the next Atlas V! ---
### Author: ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/146 "2012-08-06T05:42:31Z")
yes capt ---
### Author: ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/147 "2012-08-06T05:43:53Z")
That was seriously cool. The line for the bathroom? Not so much:) ---
### Author: ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/148 "2012-08-06T05:44:18Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > MARS, BITCHES. > > mars. It’s Fuckin’ Mars, BITCH! Now we have the RV/Meth lab equivalent of Breaking Bad on the planet. ---
### Author: ![Heller\_Highwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Heller\_Highwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heller_Highwater) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/149 "2012-08-06T05:44:21Z")
Outstanding! ---
### Author: ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/150 "2012-08-06T05:44:35Z")
Someone on NASA TV yelled HOLY SHIT! I must concur. ---
### Author: ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/151 "2012-08-06T05:44:35Z")
Bust my buttons, America can still do stuff, and say…things. 🙂 ---
### Author: ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/152 "2012-08-06T05:44:48Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Yeah science! And engineering! ---
### Author: ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/153 "2012-08-06T05:46:24Z")
No one had time to say “Pics, or it didn’t happen” before there were pics! 🙂 ---
### Author: ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/154 "2012-08-06T05:47:18Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > That is very cool! Damn, looking at that altitude number dropping really gives you an idea of how fast that thing is moving. Oh, I know. It’s AMAZING how fast it went from “Thousands of miles out in space, moving at 12,000 miles an hour” to “Touchdown!” (I think at one point they said it was pulling 11 or 12 gees.) Congratulations, **wolfstu** , and **IvoryTowerDenizen** ’s colleague’s husband and **fachverwirrt** ’s good friend and good friend’s boyfriend, and all the rest of you guys. We’re a pretty cool species sometimes. ---
### Author: ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/155 "2012-08-06T05:47:50Z")
Yeh, yeh, yeh… Years of hard work… Solving impossible problems of engineering and rocketry… Blah blah blah. We all know it’s the peanuts. ---
### Author: ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/156 "2012-08-06T05:48:38Z")
The bloody probe twittered the news itself! > [@](#): > > Curiosity Rover > ✔ > @MarsCuriosity > I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL ---
### Author: ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/157 "2012-08-06T05:49:20Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > No one had time to say “Pics, or it didn’t happen” before there were pics! 🙂 I’d like to see some pics. My computer at work doesn’t allow java or adobe. ---
### Author: ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/158 "2012-08-06T05:49:45Z")
So, being nuclear powered and all, what’s the life-expectancy of this baby? ---
### Author: ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/159 "2012-08-06T05:50:15Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > So, being nuclear powered and all, what’s the life-expectancy of this baby? 2 years ---
### Author: ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear) #### Post date: [August 6, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity/604144/160 "2012-08-06T05:50:18Z")
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