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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #90 on: August 05, 2012, 11:16:22 pm »

The g+ stream is sooo much more interesting. :)
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #91 on: August 05, 2012, 11:17:34 pm »

Damn, my mother swears she knows him. This is possible since she used to work on the shuttles.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #92 on: August 05, 2012, 11:20:24 pm »

The g+ stream is sooo much more interesting. :)

And of course I can't get it to load.

 
Oh here it goes.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #93 on: August 05, 2012, 11:20:32 pm »

The silence in the control room is sort of eerie.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #94 on: August 05, 2012, 11:21:05 pm »

The g+ stream is sooo much more interesting. :)
Why?
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #95 on: August 05, 2012, 11:24:33 pm »

The g+ stream is sooo much more interesting. :)
Why?
Well, it actually has stuff in it which isn't silent video of people staring at computers. Bunch of scientists & bloggers hanging out and having discussions about space stuff.
It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJT1d1BKhw&feature=player_embedded
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #96 on: August 05, 2012, 11:25:31 pm »

The g+ stream is sooo much more interesting. :)
Why?
Well, it actually has stuff in it which isn't silent video of people staring at computers. Bunch of scientists & bloggers hanging out and having discussions about space stuff.
It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJT1d1BKhw&feature=player_embedded
Note that NASA has a second stream that is more interesting.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #97 on: August 05, 2012, 11:26:39 pm »

Ah, okay. *opens all 3*
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #98 on: August 05, 2012, 11:27:14 pm »

The g+ stream is sooo much more interesting. :)
Why?
Well, it actually has stuff in it which isn't silent video of people staring at computers. Bunch of scientists & bloggers hanging out and having discussions about space stuff.
It's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJT1d1BKhw&feature=player_embedded
Oh, I'm looking at one like that too. :P
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #99 on: August 05, 2012, 11:30:16 pm »

1 hour left!
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 2 Hours Remain [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #100 on: August 05, 2012, 11:32:04 pm »

Haha, that's awesome. NASA didn't want JPL's name on the rover, so they designed the wheel treads to have holes which would spell out 'JPL' in morse code. So as Curiosity goes across the surface of Mars, it will be writing 'JPL' on mars over and over again. Win.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: ONE HOUR REMAINS [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #101 on: August 05, 2012, 11:33:35 pm »

Cool, the Control room feed has been switched to a sim of the lander.

Oh, it switched back.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: ONE HOUR REMAINS [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #102 on: August 05, 2012, 11:34:02 pm »

1 hour left!
That's my line!

ONE HOUR REMAINS UNTIL LANDING

Also, Odyssey is currently turning as to communicate with Curiosity. It will be sending real-time telemetry of the landing, assuming nothing goes wrong.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: ONE HOUR REMAINS [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #103 on: August 05, 2012, 11:40:12 pm »

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I did a year and a half long project a couple years ago. What we did was take high-resolution images of mars' surface and counted the craters to determine the relative age against other areas. We ended up determining that Olympus Mons was slightly younger than Elysium. We also got to determine our own coordinates to have the satellite take a picture for us.
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Re: Countdown to Curiosity: 40 MINUTES REMAIN [NASA LIVESTREAM ONLINE]
« Reply #104 on: August 05, 2012, 11:58:25 pm »

Break open the peanuts, I chuckled at that.
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