NASA explores 'Curiosity' for nuclear-powered Mars rover
LaeMi Qian
Excellent name #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 21:51 GMT
kudos to Clara
Gabriel Vistica
Great... #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 22:11 GMT
So we've been killing Martians the entire time we've been looking for them?
Just wait until we start sending robots to other planets. I'm sure some of them (like Saturn) will have more easily provoked life-forms than Mars.
Charles Manning
12yo girl names rover #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 22:11 GMT
OMG, pink pony!
That passage from her essay doesn't sound like it came from a 12yo. I suspect some over-the shoulder input from an overzealous mom and pop.
So this thing is going to look for water and signs of life? Like the last three or four? Didn't they find water already? Pretty friggin amazing that it has taken them this long to figure out the perchorate problem. This time they'll probably figure out that the nukes interfere with the radiation sensors.
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bandor
don't tell me #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 23:29 GMT
COLBERT was already taken?
Anonymous Coward
Feline investigations #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
We can only hope that given the 'success' of Viking and Phoenix at that Curiosity doesn't venture too close to a Martian pet hotel....
Flugal
Curiosity? #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
Didn't it also kill the cat? We've already killed a Beagle.
Anonymous Coward
@Charles Manning #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
My "12yo" daughter is perfectly capable of writing that kind of prose.
Just because your child isn't capable of writing it is no reason to belittle the efforts of others.
oxo
Send your name to Mars #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
Why oh why would we want to do that?
Simon Ball
@Charles Manning #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
Really? I would have said that the somewhat corny phrasing is EXACTLY what I would expect from a bright 12-year-old girl. As for pink ponies – across the entire country, there are bound to be SOME girls who aren’t obsessed with horses. Just entering the competition implies a much-greater-than-average interest in science.
As for the perchlorate thing, it seems par for the course for NASA probes. Didn’t someone theorise last year that the Viking landers probably fried the local wildlife with their landing rockets before they even GOT to the sampling stage.
Anonymous John
"Overlord" would be a better name. #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
If we've been exterminating the natives since 1975.
Brutus
@Charles #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:05 GMT
ODFO, you cynical, depressing git!
Steve
We come in peace #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:33 GMT
sizzzzleZap.
Anonymous Coward
Put your name on a Martian Hit List...No thanks... #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:33 GMT
So this nuclear-powered Mars rover, I'm Curious is it Stirling or thermocouple? anyone know??
Austin Chamberlain
@oxo #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:43 GMT
We send our names to Mars so that when the next Tunguska meteorite wipes us all out, leaving nothing but cockroaches and New Labour apparatchiks (but I repeat myself), there will be some trace of intelligent life left in our solar system.
Have a nice day! :D
Lionel Baden
@charles #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 10:43 GMT
made me lol ignore the other do righters above :D
lol@AC 06:18 GMT
seriously though you have made your point if its really the parent, loved reading your post keep it up.
Alistair
Its not curiosity in my house #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 13:53 GMT
Oh no. Its not curiosity that wakes me up every frickin' morning. Its the cat.
Your Command
If we're immolated, were we 'life'? #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 15:51 GMT
So that's why aliens in movies zap everything with rayguns. They're just trying to 'analyze [our] materials in gas form'
Steven Shuster
We come in peace #
Posted Thursday 28th May 2009 15:51 GMT
And here we though the Martians were going to come here and kill US with heat rays. Oh the irony of it all.
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