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Teague · 2012-09-04 16:55:14

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I'm in space.

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Owen_Ward · 2012-09-04 17:53:40

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Re: #41 - DIF in Spaaaace!

My internet connection cut off whilst this was getting recorded, so at least some of this will be fresh!

Matt Vayda · 2012-09-04 18:33:26

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Endurance Crater

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Phi · 2012-09-04 18:47:37

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That first XKCD with the rover always gets something in my eye. *sniff*

Dorkman · 2012-09-04 21:08:11

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That is because you're crazy.

Teague · 2012-09-04 21:28:30

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Dorkman wrote:

Zat iz because you are crazy.

Fixed.

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fcw · 2012-09-04 23:23:24

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Every time I watch video of the Curiosity landing procedure, I become re-convinced that it will never work. Even though it already has.

Who's crazy now, eh? Eh?

Hold on, let me think about that.

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MasterZap · 2012-09-05 06:06:12

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Having an In-house guy at NASA that does graphics is new?

Not exactly.

The Godfather of computer graphics, Jim Blinn (invented little stuff like... Bump Mapping... in the 70's) made the animation for the Voyager project, working for JPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Blinn

http://www.jimblinn.com/

He also did all the CG for Cosmos.

And he's tall.

I've met him.

He's cool.

That is all. smile

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Lamer · 2012-09-05 12:16:17

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I can't think about space too much because it makes me feel that we failed as a species.

lab276 · 2012-09-05 13:51:20

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The crater image doesn't do much for me. I've always found this one to be much more haunting:

Jimmy B · 2012-09-05 17:20:10

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^ at least that one is better than the 'two suns' one that fooled a lot of people recently big_smile

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Phi wrote:

That first XKCD with the rover always gets something in my eye. *sniff*

Or... with a reinterpretation, it could be a happy story. 90 days to retirement... 50 days... 10...9....8.. 3..and there's so much more to do and to see and to enjoy...2...1... goodbye world....this is it... the end.....?.... hello? I'm still here... Hooray. Instead of 90 days, I've been given almost 2000 days!!

Remember the original ending to Blade Runner... 'no termination date' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCeH-WnJYM

not long to go now...

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MasterZap wrote:

Having an In-house guy at NASA that does graphics is new?/Z

Dan Maas did some spectacular animations for JPL for the MER rovers back in 2003. Instead of the crane, you got the bouncing on the surface. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijyybrm … embedded#!

So the '7 minutes of terror' is not new PR. In any case, this Mars stuff should sell itself, without PR pushing our emotional buttons. Because in reality, it's 10 years of getting your PhD, 10 years of designing/building/testing the rover, and a 10 year mission, most of which is excruciatingly slow movements on Mars. And that's just the successful exciting missions.

not long to go now...

Joe · 2012-09-06 06:28:10

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SO what happened to the flying sky crane part? Did it just kamikaze into the side of a mountain?

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Teague · 2012-09-06 06:51:00

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Pretty much.

A few days after the landing, someone stitched together a stabilized version of the video from the orbiter, and you can actually see (read: two pixels) of a poof off to one side.

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Phi · 2012-09-06 17:37:23

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Is this the video you're talking about? It's the heat shield dropping, not the sky crane:

But the sky crane crashed too, and I seem to recall seeing a picture of the dust cloud taken by Curiosity.

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Teague · 2012-09-06 18:18:47

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Ah. Well, yeah. *sheepish*

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Joe · 2012-09-07 10:07:20

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Somehow I convinced myself that it was flying around like a flying saucer doing probe stuff. I have no one to blame but myself for my disappointment.

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Zarban · 2012-09-10 16:53:57

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Great show, guys!

Regarding Tesla, they're no longer making the Roadster. They've moved on to the Model S sedan, which--just three years later--is way better in every way.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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