MSL Humor and Other Stuff, and other non-technical chat Options

[bigdipper]

Wow! Just when I thought Google had decided to ignore Curiosity! I should have looked more closely.

When you looked, it may not have been there to see.

Here's a grab of the earlier goodle doodle showing the blimp that was replaced by Curiosity. I'm guessing they were hedging their bets since I don't think we would have seen a doodle of Curiosity Crater had EDL failed.

http://merovee.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/blimp.jpg?w=594

Overstating the obvious, the updated August 6 doodle was reminiscent of Her Majesty's entrance during the opening ceremonies.

[brellis]

omg SarcasticRover is superb! hahaha!!

[Guest_Oersted_*]

I love this pic taken one millisecond before mayhem descended on Mission Control:



- If this pic cannot make you happy nothing can!

[bigdipper]

Great picture!

I think its time to change the subhead on this thread to read "...while we wait for some serious science/images/inspirational poetry..."

[Reckless]

It's happened before. Cookie monster

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[avkillick]

So bad it's funny department. Therefore I'm posting to this thread.

NBC had 'breaking news' on Tuesday! about the Curiosity landing. I guess the Olympics is not the only thing they cover on tape delay.

NBC 'Breaking News'

[RoverDriver]

So bad it's funny department. Therefore I'm posting to this thread.

NBC had 'breaking news' on Tuesday! about the Curiosity landing. I guess the Olympics is not the only thing they cover on tape delay.

NBC 'Breaking News'

And it is not they were not here, They had the local Channel4 news truck and a humongous satellite-ready truck. Speaking of news trucks, by Sol 3 (Wed 8/8) all of the TV trucks were gone.

Paolo

[JayB]

not sure if this an appropriate place for this but check out http://arstechnica.com/

Siemens has a neat "proud to support MSL" ad on the home page which times in with an animation of the descent stage flying all over the Ars homepage

[elakdawalla]

This morning there was one remaining truck that was unlabeled. I think that was probably the Japanese TV crew, who presumably rented a truck locally.

[Pando]

It's the MSL Muppet Show with a very special guest star...!

(not sure what Muppet this is, but he sure is trying to hold on to something...)

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[stevesliva]

not sure if this an appropriate place for this but check out http://arstechnica.com/

Siemens has a neat "proud to support MSL" ad on the home page which times in with an animation of the descent stage flying all over the Ars homepage

I turned off Adblock just to watch. Cute, but it also reminds me why I used Adblock.

[PFK]

Knowing it would be buoyed by its recent success, NASA have just downloaded the first rather grainy thumbnail from the hitherto secret SMUGCAM, which aims to assess the overall state of the rover by accessing its deepest levels of "pride", the extent to which it's "ready to go" and what it thinks it's capable of. The results thus far are encouraging:

[bigdipper]

Sunday dinner one week after Curiosity's successful landing, I remember Adam Steltzner's 2004 instruction on how to celebrate a successful Rover EDL [from Oppy's landing in which he was mechanical systems lead.]

1) Drink
2) Take a picture
3) Go _together_ to the press conference [if there are no press around your dining room table, the kids will do for Q&A]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGTuvaWUmtw
quick toast at 15:45, instructions at 15:57, and 16:54 reminiscence "how can anything match this"

To Curiosity's first Earth week on Mars and many more to come. Cheers.

[Jaro_in_Montreal]

Robot Emilian asks "Why does Curiosity have a nuclear heart ?" (...in Czech)

This is an adaptation from a 1960s series of kids' discovery books illustrated by Jaroslav Malák.
It inspired a whole generation of scintists and engineers, just as Curiosity is doing for the current generation of kids.
More "WHY?" book covers.

[JTN]

The suspense is killing me.