Curiosity killed the cat

Watched the NASA Mars Landing of the Curiosity Rover this morning, Impressive feat of engineering, Shame about the American, we're better than the rest of the world 70's bravado, cutting the crap, it's an amazing feat for mankind and an impressive team of people to conceive and achieve a controlled landing like that. Loved seeing it drop from Mach 2.2 to Mach 0.3 when the Parachute Deployed, and then to hover and winch the rover down safely, amazing. Look forward to what can be found out there now it's free to be curious.

(06-08-2012 10:37am)PhilSkill Wrote:  Watched the NASA Mars Landing of the Curiosity Rover this morning, Impressive feat of engineering, Shame about the American, we're better than the rest of the world 70's bravado, cutting the crap, it's an amazing feat for mankind and an impressive team of people to conceive and achieve a controlled landing like that. Loved seeing it drop from Mach 2.2 to Mach 0.3 when the Parachute Deployed, and then to hover and winch the rover down safely, amazing. Look forward to what can be found out there now it's free to be curious.

Anyone else notice the name sticker on the back of the guy's monitor in the video from Mission Control (I think it's at 24 seconds in the BBC video)? I know it could be a legitimate name, but the Chinese origin doesn't seem to tally with the guy sitting behind the screen and I just wondered if someone at NASA has a sense of humour...

^^ I hadn't until you made me go and look... purely because of the absence of the name in your post.
And I see why, that is no-way a real name!! lol

Found it 38secs in

He's real... he's diagonally to the left of the seat

Dr Fuk Li

I thought it said "Fuk U"

Might as well be

I hope LR managed to get a logo badge to NASA to stick on the Curiosity Rover before it took off.

(07-08-2012 03:01pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I hope LR managed to get a logo badge to NASA to stick on the Curiosity Rover before it took off.

I'm also sure Martin will be working on the new website/forums as we speak

Interesting article in The New Yorker: Mars Rover Should Not Get So Much Attention, Say Higgs-Boson Scientists : The New Yorker