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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #510 on: August 30, 2012, 01:53:57 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on August 30, 2012, 01:17:54 pm
It's a bit of self delusion; we think the ideas are always awesome, but think the problem is failure in execution due to incompetence. It's never the ideas being flawed from the start.

So we elect the same jackasses to do the same stupid things over and over again.
So is the problem with democracy failure in execution due to the incompetence of the electorate, or a flaw in the idea to start?  ;D

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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #511 on: August 30, 2012, 01:58:59 pm »
I uh... Hrm...

Dammed logic bomb you got there :P
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Roaving Roaver Rotationally Ravages Red Rock Recklessly
« Reply #512 on: August 30, 2012, 03:21:33 pm »
It's not a flaw in the people elected (well... technically) but in the people doing the electing. It's actually the exact same flaw that made communism suck so much ass; people are dumb and tend to be sheep. It's just that communism put more trust in the people being smart and ended up with dictators being elected.

Honestly, governments in general suck. Anarchy sucks. Everything to do with political science and philosphy and cheese sandwiches ALL SUCKS and has absolutely nothing to do with our russian-made AMERIbot on mars.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #513 on: September 10, 2012, 08:31:50 pm »
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #514 on: September 10, 2012, 08:34:18 pm »
Did we just seed life onto an alien planet?

They'd have to be anaerobes and I dunno if they'd actually have any luck finding nutrients to subsist on, though...
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #515 on: September 10, 2012, 08:37:34 pm »
Hope we aren't attacked by rock-eating monsters in the future.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #516 on: September 10, 2012, 08:38:20 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on September 10, 2012, 08:34:18 pm
Did we just seed life onto an alien planet?
Yes, I'm afraid humanity has now officially committed an act of artificial panspermia.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #517 on: September 10, 2012, 08:39:45 pm »
That's really disappointing  :-\
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #518 on: September 10, 2012, 08:40:25 pm »
Isn't Curiosity supposed to have an estimated lifespan of a few years? I say they leave the drill bit exposed to the weather, as it were, for several months. The lack of nutrients, radiation from the sun, and constant temperature extremes would surely kill off any microbes and the search for water could continue, if a little later than expected.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #519 on: September 10, 2012, 08:43:36 pm »
Curiosity's nuclear fuel is expected to last around 15 years. However, the microbes to be worried about are extremophiles and spores, which are generally able to shrug off a lack of nutrients, high radiation, and temperature extremes. There are many microbial species that are easily capable of surviving Mars' conditions indefinitely.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #520 on: September 11, 2012, 01:10:41 am »
We're discussing the best music to blast into outer space and nobody thinks David Bowie? Nobody?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #521 on: September 11, 2012, 01:14:20 am »
God. Dammit.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #522 on: September 11, 2012, 01:16:06 am »
Wait a second, how'd they even figure out that some microbes made it on? Are they just guessing?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #523 on: September 11, 2012, 01:19:09 am »
The drill bit was exposed to regular ol' air before being put on the machine, or something like that, I think.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: Cross-Planetary Contamination Causes Curiosity To Avoid Water
« Reply #524 on: September 11, 2012, 01:20:47 am »
Yeah, some engineers apparently took the bits out from a sealed box to test, and forgot to re-sterilize them or tell people they took them out.
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