EPTOpportunity hasn't got a full-color camera like Curiosity, right?
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Left4Cookies
Denmark803 Posts
Opportunity hasn't got a full-color camera like Curiosity, right? | ||
Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On August 08 2012 18:44 Twinkle Toes wrote: I hear you bro. I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere. So I guess the correct decision is to leave this very important decision (and actually relatively small cost in the big scope of things) to people who actually understand its importance. =D On August 08 2012 03:09 Yurie wrote: Earlier in this thread a great video was linked about a book showing how to get to Mars and back using technology that was very feasible 10 years ago. No fusion, nothing that isn't already fully possible. Basically saying we have had the technology to go there for a long time, nobody is funding it though. That video from Robert Zubrin is amazing. haha. Something like that is seriously something worth investing into. On August 08 2012 18:24 thrawn2112 wrote: http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html it might take a bit to load but it is worth the wait That is fantastic. I can't wait until more of Curiosity's features get online and we start to gain access to many more images and videos from Mars. And I also can't wait to see what the conspiracy nuts will come up with while shifting through this data. Oh, I see that this is from Opportunity. | ||
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Austria1350 Posts
On August 08 2012 18:46 Left4Cookies wrote: Opportunity hasn't got a full-color camera like Curiosity, right? Sure it has couples of cameras | ||
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Umpteen
United Kingdom1570 Posts
On August 08 2012 18:44 Twinkle Toes wrote: I hear you bro. I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere. The Curiosity program started about eight years ago, and has cost you personally around $7. Now, if you can tell me, hand on heart, that you haven't spent at least $7 over the past eight years on something more frivolous than exploring another fucking planet, I will join my voice with yours in condemnation. And eat my car. | ||
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m4inbrain
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On August 08 2012 21:42 Umpteen wrote: The Curiosity program started about eight years ago, and has cost you personally around $7. Now, if you can tell me, hand on heart, that you haven't spent at least $7 over the past eight years on something more frivolous than exploring another fucking planet, I will join my voice with yours in condemnation. And eat my car. Let me help you understand a posting which is written in your mothertongue and foreign to me. "I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere." See how he used "we", and "us"? Hes not talking about spending 7 dollars in 8 years. Hes talking about the billions which for example would be better used (at least to me as a european) in american education. You're welcome. | ||
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Hider
Denmark9405 Posts
On August 08 2012 21:42 Umpteen wrote: The Curiosity program started about eight years ago, and has cost you personally around $7. Now, if you can tell me, hand on heart, that you haven't spent at least $7 over the past eight years on something more frivolous than exploring another fucking planet, I will join my voice with yours in condemnation. And eat my car. Hey everytime you are going to spend $7 on stupid stuff. Think twice plz, and send the money too me instead. And btw I also want to be paid for all your previous "stupid" spending behaviour, because your previous stupid spending behaviour justifies me taking money from you. Thx in advance. Btw: You don't really have a choice. You have to pay me, or you will be put in jail.. Some times logic is a bitch. | ||
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stratmatt
United States913 Posts
On August 08 2012 21:57 m4inbrain wrote: Let me help you understand a posting which is written in your mothertongue and foreign to me. "I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere." See how he used "we", and "us"? Hes not talking about spending 7 dollars in 8 years. Hes talking about the billions which for example would be better used (at least to me as a european) in american education. You're welcome. Why do somany europeans always think they know better what to do with other people's money? lolol. | ||
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m4inbrain
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On August 08 2012 22:06 stratmatt wrote: Why do somany europeans always think they know better what to do with other people's money? lolol. Because it was an american who posted what i quoted, you smartass? | ||
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On August 08 2012 21:57 m4inbrain wrote: Let me help you understand a posting which is written in your mothertongue and foreign to me. "I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere." See how he used "we", and "us"? Hes not talking about spending 7 dollars in 8 years. Hes talking about the billions which for example would be better used (at least to me as a european) in american education. You're welcome. The US already spends more money on education than most EU countries even calculated on a per capita basis. Some problems are not solved by throwing more money at it, so the billions (which actually isn't much on a country level) wouldn't help there. | ||
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Medrea
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That's just straight ignorant. We spent 7 billion this year on potato chips. Lets see a complaint about those. 3 times the complaints please. | ||
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Denmark9405 Posts
On August 08 2012 22:17 Medrea wrote: NASA is dirt cheap and has always been worth the cost. People are seriously questioning whether the landing was worth the money? That's just straight ignorant. We spent 7 billion this year on potato chips. Lets see a complaint about those. 3 times the complaints please. Nice post: 1) No sources (needed for that kind post). 2) You think subjective values can be rationalized as objective values. | ||
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Vega62a
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On August 08 2012 18:44 Twinkle Toes wrote: I hear you bro. I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere. I am going to keep posting this link until you actually read it. A list of uses private industry has found for technologies created by NASA and NASA's subcontractors since the 1970s. Edit: Note such gems in the 1970s as packaged food and quartz crystal clocks (which, in case you were curious, are what every computer currently uses as a time reference for its processor). Further note their innovations in the last few years in the fields of online security, HVAC systems (air conditioners), fuel pollutant control, fly-by-wire (which, by the way, gave me my first job as a software engineer), and global positioning systems | ||
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POiNTx
Belgium309 Posts
On August 08 2012 23:13 Vega62a wrote: I am going to keep posting this link until you actually read it. A list of uses private industry has found for technologies created by NASA since the 1970s. That link should be put in the disclaimer on top of this thread and in the OP. There will be a News Briefing at 10 a.m. PDT. That is in 2:40 hours if I am not mistaken. Source! Stream! | ||
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Mtuhk
Finland129 Posts
On August 08 2012 21:57 m4inbrain wrote: Let me help you understand a posting which is written in your mothertongue and foreign to me. "I still think whatever we can learn from that rover and the mission is not worth the money it cost us, and it is money we could have used elsewhere." See how he used "we", and "us"? Hes not talking about spending 7 dollars in 8 years. Hes talking about the billions which for example would be better used (at least to me as a european) in american education. You're welcome. To be fair, only a fraction of the cost was actually "lost" to american citizens, since most of the money was spent on research & development, mission planning, hardware manufacture etc. and this money is still in circulation, it wasn't packed into duffel bags and sent to Mars. It was paid to companies, employees and organizations affiliated with the mission, while only the raw materials used to build Curiosity and it's associated craft, fuels etc. are "missing" from our planet, which i'd assume isn't more than few percent of the total cost of the mission. | ||
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