MSL Humor and Other Stuff, and other non-technical chat |
MSL Humor and Other Stuff, and other non-technical chat |
Aug 6 2012, 01:38 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
I was flying this weekend, and so saved my peanuts... I had a safe landing, so I am cheering for MSL to have one too!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 6 2012, 01:39 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
RUI is here!!!!! And yes RED wine is being opened...
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 6 2012, 02:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
De-lurking for the evening to wish good luck and Godspeed to all those involved with tonight's landing. (As bkellysky noted, in the absence of a cheerleading thread, I decided to add my best wishes here.)
BTW -- anyone have a good timeline hack on when to open up my bag of mission peanuts? That would have been a good event to have on the EDL portion of the Eyes sim. -the other Doug |
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Aug 6 2012, 02:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Not sure when the right moment is, but I found at least 3 jars of Planter's peanuts in this gigapan of mission control
(Apologies if it has been posted already in another thread...) -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Aug 6 2012, 03:40 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
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Aug 6 2012, 03:59 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
De-lurking for the evening to wish good luck and Godspeed to all those involved with tonight's landing... -the other Doug oDoug...now that's a name I haven't seen in a long time. Good to see you are alive and well and joining the party. Cheers from another lurker. |
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Aug 6 2012, 04:09 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Just a note; the stream thread has been temporarily closed to redirect comments to the EDL thread.
Not gonna close this one just yet, but please put comments regarding EDL over there; thanks! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 6 2012, 04:12 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 6-September 07 From: Netherlands Member No.: 3683 |
BTW -- anyone have a good timeline hack on when to open up my bag of mission peanuts? That would have been a good event to have on the EDL portion of the Eyes sim. -the other Doug I'd say...start on the hour to beat the communications delay and Cruise Stage Sepp. There is a link to a timeline in the pinned faq thread -------------------- Error: Life.sys corrupted
( R )eflect, ( R )epend, or ( R )eboot? |
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Aug 6 2012, 04:14 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Temporarily closed...let's all go over to the EDL thread.
GO CURIOSITY!!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 6 2012, 04:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 6 2012, 07:40 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Hey, dvandorn. Good to see you back. You've been missed.
I was sent this image today, and it was purported to be something else that might improve the odds tonight. It looks like NASA/JPL were successful. Yay! -------------------- ...Tom
I'm not a Space Fan, I'm a Space Exploration Enthusiast. |
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Aug 6 2012, 12:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Columbia, MD Member No.: 1083 |
Don't tell me what happened! NBC is tape-delaying the landing for primetime tonight
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Aug 6 2012, 12:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Feeling tired? Late for work today?
Here's your excuse. http://xkcd.com/1091/ Got Guilt? http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1724.html |
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Aug 6 2012, 08:46 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
So, now that Curiosity has landed, it's no longer a spacecraft, right? It certainly isn't involved in unmanned spaceflight, since it is no longer flying. So, UMSF's coverage will be wrapping up soon, I suppose. All that's left to do is get the MEDLI and MARDI data down, which recorded the end of the flight.
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Aug 6 2012, 09:10 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
You're absolutely right. I'm gonna go close all them pesky MSL threads right now...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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