― Harold Media (kenan), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― this thread sucks already, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Harold Media (kenan), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
The movie Mission To Mars was one of the worst sci-fi films of the nineties.
The Martian Chronicles are great, as is much pulp about Mars.
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
You really don't need that last prepositional phrase. Maybe not even the adjective describing the final noun.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link
But Laserblast has such elan.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― chrisco (chrisco), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Ghosts Of Mars was Carpenter's remake of his own Assault On Precinct 13
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
That'd be a fun exchange.
Robot: YOU ARE MY PRISONER.Val Kilmar: hmmRobot: YOU SHALL COME WITH ME.Val Kilmar: nuhRobot: WHY DO YOU RESIST?Val Kilmar: dunnoRobot: FURTHER RESISTANCE WILL RESULT IN DEATH.Val Kilmar: whateverRobot: TO AVOID DEATH YOU MUST COME WITH ME NOWVal Kilmar: kay
― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link
If only. The confrontation was more like
http://www.kodak.com/US/images/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2001/mars02.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
What's wrong with Val Kilmer?
― Harold Media (kenan), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()()()()()()(()()()()(()()()()) (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Brand X spinoff.
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, that hologram showing the evolution of life was mind-blowingly stupid becasue a. it showed historically inaccurate lineages such as dinosaurs evolving into elephants plus b. how the fuck do the martians know what ways their DNA is going to adapt to earth? Evolution depends largely on chance variation to fuel natural selection. Stupid martian fucks.
you stupid incompetent martian fucks!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
fucking planets and the insignificant microns of colour they add to the galactic plain, eh?
― calzino, Monday, 30 May 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/30dd940a60e81e938be30cf318a021af6035d72c/100_0_1686_1011/master/1686.jpg?width=940&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=f8bf903b7afe79c75781f1710551f2a3
The 50-mile-wide crater contains 530 cubic miles of water ice, as much as Great Bear Lake in northern Canada, and in the centre of the crater the ice is more than a mile thick.
they managed to keep this lovely off-planet resort quiet for a long time, or I'm probably just bad + didn't notice.
― calzino, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Okay, Perseverance is about there so cross your fingers and watch along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
Mars: It is Still Out There Waiting.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
So what's actually happening now, it's just getting closer?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
*bites nails*
― lord of the ting tings (map), Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
Mars
Here's the livestream:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
Parachute deployed on the way down! Heat shield separated!
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
i love this stuff
― StanM, Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Powered descent, less than km above surface.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Touchdown confirmed!!
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
FUCK YEAH!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Your move, Space Force.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
I'll bet there's some serious BO in that control room.It's Miller time.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
More like BAwesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 February 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Greatness indeed. Always lovely to see it happen. Can't wait to see if/when the little drone thing or helicopter deploys.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
I got sad that these nerds can't jump up and down and hug each other =|
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 18 February 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
xpost Yeah, that's a pretty rad feature, hope a hawk doesn't get it.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 February 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
About to start!
I’ve come nearly 300 million miles, and I’m just getting started. Hear from the team about my picture-perfect landing and what comes next.LIVE at 2:30 p.m. PST (5:30 p.m. EST/20:30 UTC) https://t.co/fciqGe8GpC pic.twitter.com/5XgclFaGtB— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
Okay the NASA dude at the press conference with the amazing voice tearing up the now unneeded contingency plan and tossing the scraps away is massively hilarious in the best way.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
I know this stuff costs a shit-ton of money, but when it all goes to plan... it's pretty awesome.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 February 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
Phew
Image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing Perseverance descending under its parachute yesterday pic.twitter.com/stLXBP1qi5— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) February 19, 2021
First image showing Perseverance being lowered by the Skycrane pic.twitter.com/hhqlvBiB6h— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) February 19, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 February 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
I'm unreasonably happy that this is taking place during a new presidential administration
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 19 February 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
Stop everything for 26 seconds and watch this.Footage, with sound (!) from the surface of another planet.Just incredible. pic.twitter.com/sEjKcuOJeZ— James Holland (@James7Holland) February 19, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
It's only a matter of time before some jokers start adding goofy shit, so enjoy.
Actually, might be fake/old. Ugh, who can even tell, might be Texas.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
that's the curiosity rover
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 19 February 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
Even as 'old' video from an earlier rover, it is interesting to hear what seems to be martian wind, as well as see the landscape in such sharp detail.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Friday, 19 February 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
This is a cool story. I wonder when they’re going to fire up the mic/share any recordings.
― DJI, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
It's real video from Curiosity but fake sound, apparently.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
yeah, see here:
Turns out this is old footage from the Curiosity rover and the sound has been patched in. Should practice more of what I preach to students about fact checking and critical thinking before retweeting. Still a cool video though! https://t.co/jq4g05wnO6— Jerome Marshall (@MarshallJerome) February 20, 2021
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:35 (three years ago) link
still incredible shot, but....i'd like to wait and see what the Perseverance records!
one of my friends posted al ink to this video and said "now watch all the conspiracists say this is fake"
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
What if I told you… the Earth blew up eons ago and we already are on Mars?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
Microphones on the probe recorded atmospheric wind noises in an effort to measure wind speed (they also recorded noises associated with the probe's equipment).[5] This was the first recording of sound on another planet. The recording would be repeated with Venera 14.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 10:15 (three years ago) link
New press conference, including video from the landing, in a few minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
thank you!
― StanM, Monday, 22 February 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
Dave Grohl?
― StanM, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
oh, it's Gruel
― StanM, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
PHEW, that descent video.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
great stuff - even though the audio is more of a gimmick imo, it'll sound like wind, won't it?
― StanM, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Even so!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
even if the microphone just confirms predicted sound patterns, that confirmation is worth something
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 22 February 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
Is this IDM https://t.co/NPDnweurel— Sordan Jnodgrass (@jsnod) February 22, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
Incredible:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/
― StanM, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
Truly is.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
The fact that this was accomplished in such times is something else. I know this is obv, but still.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Monday, 22 February 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
So inspiring.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 01:36 (three years ago) link
https://apnews.com/article/mars-rover-parachute-secret-message-75577c274ebddf8eaa4a637d57ef564d?
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
I’m taking it all in. This is the first 360º view of my home using Mastcam-Z. This dual, high-definition camera system sits atop my mast and has zoom capability. Inspect tiny details of Jezero Crater with the special interactive viewer at https://t.co/roDhWK56gj #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/TAy28PpG73— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 24, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
great! they sure know how to keep us nerds interested :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
At maximum magnification, it's cool to scan the features along the horizon.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
https://lightsinthedark.com/2021/07/23/insight-measures-the-size-of-mars-core/
well this has blown my mind. I thought the reason the reason the atmosphere of Mars was stripped away by solar winds was most likely because the core cooled down and stopped generating a magnetic field.
― MoMsnet (calzino), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link