Curiosity drills into Mars Nuclear-powered, laser-equipped space tank Curiosity has unveiled another of its weapons: a 2.3mm drill bit that it has used to gouge a hole 6.4 cm deep into the Martian soil. NASA has kindly furnished world+dog with the image of the drill bit below. Behold its fearsome bluntness if you dare! The drill bit wielded by the …
So convenient how they opened it on earth, this way even if evidence of life turns up they can still deny it. Lovely. Seems this mars mission is a pointless expedition to scoop dirt and play with rocks just like the last ones. We wont have any real progress until someone does a clandestine private expedition. Then again the Chinese will go to mars and probably tell us more than NASA would.
Maybe Martians will make contact and/or go to China and spill the beans on existence and existentialism there, tempemeaty?!. ..... with NASA knowledge and approval of the mission which they would be unable to prevent, of course, if Curiosity is harbouring newly discovered secrets on smarter alien life phorms?
Of course, if you pass by every Martian steel-head lizard, dismissing it as "nothing to see here", you won't ever find anything...
But, finally, help is on the way and a bunch of American adventurers will help the robots to sort out all of the mess they've made with so-called "robotic exploration" once and for all: The Planets are Aligning for a Once-in-a-Generation Space Journey
Well, let's see...
Nasa has no reason to hide the truth, and while I would support a chinese mission, I think that Nasa's only failing is lack of willingness to co-operate with the new big players in manned space flight, i.e. China...
China wanted in on the ISS, Nasa said no...
you got them mixed up again! A 2.3mm drill bit making a 6.4cm hole in hard rock without breaking the bit? Quite an achievement, indeed. According to NASA, it's a 1.6cm drill bit (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130209.html), quite a bit sturdier and - more importantly - doing a lot more damage! BWOUHAHAHAHAAAA
Do we have a Reg unit for small lengths? centiLinguine or something?
Who could have known that at the dawn of the 21st century, from across the vastness of space our red planet was being observed. Intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic studied the myriad comings and goings of our home as carefully as they might observe the organisms that swarm and multiply in the occasional, incredibly rare drop of liquid water that you might find. They looked upon the 4th planet from the Sun, its resources and natural history with envious eyes, and slowly they drew their plans against us.
It started with seeming innocence, with simple observational missions from high above our beloved red deserts. Then the limits of the Outsiders aggression were made clear by the orbital bombardment of our world with BEAGLEs and probes that alledgedly were meant to go into orbit if they had not been programmed with the wrong unit of measurement, but these were just the initial phases of a far more sinister conspiracy......INVASION!!!
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