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[JRC]

Saw it happen, and got caught up in the thrill, pretty cool.

http://www.nasa.gov/...main/index.html

[thebiggameover]

twitter was blowing up, it was great. but that mohawk guy kinda makes me want to shave mine off....

[joe.distort]

it was pretty neat to see. i used to be really big in to science but the world destroyed my will yadda yadda yadda

but that mohawk guy kinda makes me want to shave mine off....

its funny that i never see mohawks at punk shows anymore, yet they are at the gym and on nasa broadcasts

[JRC]

Caught some of the press conference, it was a hoot. the MC totally could not get control of the gabbing and back slapping.

We sent a nuclear device to Mars. That's interesting in a lot of ways.
I think the way they got into orbit and landed is the crucial thing, shows some real creativity in the agency--one of the only Gov. bodies that excels at it, it seems.

[John MFer]

yea yea, I know, money, economy, starving children..

$2.5 billion. Curiosity rover or a single B-2 stealth bomber @ 2.1 billion in 1997 dollars, according to Wikipedia? Please give me 20 Curiosities, please. the government is always going to find ways to blow mass quantities of cash, so it might as well be for the betterment of humanity, versus new and exciting ways to kill people.

its funny that i never see mohawks at punk shows anymore, yet they are at the gym and on nasa broadcasts

Or 4 year olds in preschool.

We sent a nuclear device to Mars. That's interesting in a lot of ways.

Agreed, especially since the previous two rovers were solar powered and lasted so long.

[joe.distort]

its funny that i never see mohawks at punk shows anymore, yet they are at the gym and on nasa broadcasts

Or 4 year olds in preschool.

oh god i know. mohawk babies make me insane, although maybe i should be more like 'hey we won! all the dudes who called me a faggot now have babies with my old haircut that caused their derision'

[raubhimself]

i caught the landing on the feed, very cool!

according to some RTs on twitter, we spend $7bil on potato chips every year.

[joe.distort]

thats disgusting on at least three levels

[thebiggameover]

mohawk babies make me insane

siged...

[JRC]

Imagine how the Iroquois feel...
Also, if you do a google image search "mohawk iriquois" hoping to find a good pict of a traditional Native American mohawk to post along with your comment, it's no better really.

Anyway, I guess NASA or JPL or whoever, is going to be releasing a simulation based on captured images, or whatever, of the whole landing today. Pretty cool.
The animation/video I saw night of the event was a little too 1990s 'tombrader cgi' to be impressive. Those B&W picts tho were out of this world.

--Aside: Wasn't one of the Voyager crafts supposed to actually exit the solar system or galaxy or something like that this Summer?

[Quezo]

--Aside: Wasn't one of the Voyager crafts supposed to actually exit the solar system or galaxy or something like that this Summer?

It did.

When asked about his thoughts on it, Neil De Grasse Tyson said something to the effect of:

Eh, let's check back with it in about 100,000 years when it actually gets somewhere!

Love that guy

[JRC]

--Aside: Wasn't one of the Voyager crafts supposed to actually exit the solar system or galaxy or something like that this Summer?

It did.

When asked about his thoughts on it, Neil De Grasse Tyson said something to the effect of:

Eh, let's check back with it in about 100,000 years when it actually gets somewhere!

Love that guy

He's hosting the reboot of Cosmos I hear, which I have some hope for.
He'll be sorry when Voyager gets sucked into a black hole and becomes self aware!

[thebiggameover]

http://fuckyeahbobak...wsi.tumblr.com/

goddamnit....

[JRC]

Also, the haircut guy was on my fav' NPR show Wait Wait Don't Tell me today, turns out it's part of a series of cuts he does for different benchmarks during missions.

[joe.distort]

while i agree that chart looks pretty horrible, there really needs to be a second one that compares the money brought IN because of the olympics. both sides have to be considered, like complaining that athletes make 10 million a year while ignoring the fact that the team generates like 500 million in that same span