Curiosity Mars Mission

They will find half an amino acid that can make 1/4 of a part of a chromosome that maybe can make 1/26th of a bit of human DNA, and proclaim it as a discovery that postulates life may exist on other planets.

In other news, millions will die of starvation in the mean time and the seabreeze community will complain about La Nina and right of way rules.

Millions will die of starvation regardless of whether we go have a look at Mars or not. Even if the money that it cost to go to Mars was spent on food for the starving millions instead, they'll still die of starvation, just a little later perhaps. Until developing countries embrace sustainable agriculture and economic stability, rather than corruption and agression, poor people will continue to starve.

when are they doing the curiosity uranus mission? woftm mofos

Another Pomgolia

Looks like the sky crane took a beating on the landing!

In a couple of thousand years, after our civilisation completely crumbles through the social decay which has claimed every great civilisation before ours, the next great civilisation might get back to where we are now and start looking out in space again. They might send an exploratory robot to Mars and stumble across this junk. I wonder what they will make of it?

Humanity will start heading out into the solar system soon, ie the next hundred years. It will mainly be done with robots though some humans will be out there too. The push will be resources and earning a profit.

Mars seems pretty dead and worn out so there may not be a huge amount of resources there. However there are bound to be plenty of resources in the asteroid belt plus there are plenty of moons of the outer plantets which are rich with resources.

I don't think NASA has much of a future unless its privatised and starts making money. The US government is going broke. The US postal service if broke. It won't be long before American politicians have to make a decision as to whether NASA continues or they pay the pension. Funny money will only go so far. Once foreign T bond buyers lose confidence in the bonds its all over for NASA unless they can make money like the Russian space agency now does.

NASA sent a probe named "Voyager" into the outer reaches of the solar system in the 70's and there have been several since. These missions have been scientific marvels, though the average person is not overly interested hence the indifferent media coverage.

NASA knows from experience that public interest can only be gained by a "Manned" mission. That public interest is brief. In 1969 the western world hung on a knifedge when a Saturn 5 rocket vehicle, still the most awesome device known to man, blasted 3 dudes to the moon. Two years later the launch of Apollo 13 got dragged from TV for poor ratings.

The Apollo program was a staggering achievment and proof of what can be done when the stakes are high enough. In the end it was only ever about sticking it to the Russians. Early on the program was plagued with incompetence and ineptidude. Then 3 blokes got barbequed in the capsule of Apollo 1. This tragedy was the turning point that rallied the resolve of everyone involved. the result that is now history.

The USA spent 20% of their GPD getting Apollo 11 to the moon and back and 90% of that was what it cost to find ways to keep humans alive long enough to make it back to Earth. We all enjoy a lot of the technology that has evolved from that program but at the end of the day machines can do anything in space a human can do for a whole lot cheaper and there's never any bad news to break to any families.

That stuffs going to be very collectable in 50 years if you can get your hands on it.

Its almost impossible to bring up the moon landings without the o'l conspiracy theory raising its ugly head.

Let me ask you this.

1. If the Apollo 11 moon landing is a con it is the most audacious and sophisticated ripoff in history. If the American government managed to pulled off the miracle of all hoaxes, why the bloody hell would they try it another 5 times with the subsequent landings.

2. Why did the Russians keep so quiet about it. They possessed the technology to photogragh the sea of tranquility. Would have been gold for then to expose it as bullsh!t. Would have changed the course of history.

3. It would take hundreds of people to be involved in such an elaborate hoax. How are they expected to keep a secret like that all these years. In my experience its impossible to get even two humans to keep a secret.

I reckon organising a fake mission would have been even more difficult than just sending those blokes to the moon.

Who the hell would want to live on Mercury?

...Or any other planet for that matter. Sure the first month or so would be exciting, but then it would be like being cramped up in a ****e little apartment in a desolate wasteland. I'd rather spend my life as a hobo in a nice park.

Try google.

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html

......killed the cat

Yes, I thought it was a bit odd too...