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Author Topic: Curiosity Mission: Shutting Down 2016  (Read 138080 times)

alway

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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #195 on: August 06, 2012, 12:43:51 am »
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Only a couple hundred thousand people were watching the touchdown. What happened to the space race? Every little kid wanting to be an astronaut? Depressing...

There's 4+ million viewers on the stream I was watching.

http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL
That's total views, not current; at peak it was about 200k

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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #196 on: August 06, 2012, 12:44:30 am »
Quote from: Eagle_eye on August 06, 2012, 12:40:41 am
Only a couple hundred thousand people were watching the touchdown. What happened to the space race? Every little kid wanting to be an astronaut? Depressing...
Timezones, for one thing. It's not a good stream-watching time for everyone.

Not sure how widely publicized this was, for another. A depressing number of people probably just weren't aware of it.

Finally, the stream itself wasn't especially interesting. A lot of people were probably interested, just not in watching the control room.


Also ninja'd by several of these and a few other reasons.


Quote from: alway on August 06, 2012, 12:43:51 am
That's total views, not current; at peak it was about 200k
Unique or just total?
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #197 on: August 06, 2012, 12:45:28 am »
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #198 on: August 06, 2012, 12:45:47 am »
It just says 'x current/y total views'
Dunno if it's unique viewers or not, but x was a bit over 200k, y is currently @4.1 million.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #199 on: August 06, 2012, 12:45:55 am »
Curiosity Rover twitter has only put out grainy wheel pic. Alway has some kind of deep wizardry.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #200 on: August 06, 2012, 12:46:18 am »
Quote from: Scelly9 on August 06, 2012, 12:41:58 am
Don't forget, they where broadcasting it on TV as well. Also, what's the MSA?
The Mars Science Laboratory, the name of the mission and the craft before Curiosity was named.
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It might also help if NASA actually had a budget to speak of.
We can discuss this later, as OP I hearby do declare this thread to be under PARTY TIME!
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #201 on: August 06, 2012, 12:46:45 am »
Quote from: Karlito on August 06, 2012, 12:45:55 am
Curiosity Rover twitter has only put out grainy wheel pic. Alway has some kind of deep wizardry.
They put some pics on the g+ stream; I screencapped it. :P

There were others, but this was the most visually interesting they showed.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #202 on: August 06, 2012, 12:47:08 am »
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #203 on: August 06, 2012, 12:47:14 am »
Hell yeah! Peak views were at 232k, and I was one of them! It wasn't very well publicized, which makes that quite a feat. (I found out that it was even happening via this thread.)
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #204 on: August 06, 2012, 12:47:27 am »
Mars can be the new penguins :)
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #205 on: August 06, 2012, 12:48:00 am »
Quote from: IronyOwl on August 06, 2012, 12:47:08 am

Uh oh.
Pfft, relax, MSL has frikkin laserbeams on its head.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: TOUCHDOWN, SCREW MARTIAN ATMO, PARTY TIME LAW DECLARED
« Reply #206 on: August 06, 2012, 12:49:33 am »
Peanuts; the most intelligent people on the planet know basic comedy.

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Re: Curiosity Mission: TOUCHDOWN, SCREW MARTIAN ATMO, PARTY TIME LAW DECLARED
« Reply #207 on: August 06, 2012, 12:49:53 am »
Quote from: alway on August 06, 2012, 12:48:00 am
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Uh oh.
Pfft, relax, MSL has frikkin laserbeams on its head.

And 11 lbs. of plutonium.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: TOUCHDOWN, SCREW MARTIAN ATMO, PARTY TIME LAW DECLARED
« Reply #208 on: August 06, 2012, 12:51:21 am »
140 Kilograms of fuel left. Not bad.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED, FUCK THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE!
« Reply #209 on: August 06, 2012, 12:51:34 am »
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Mars can be the new penguins :)
Fine but just until tomorrow.
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