Astro0
Jun 10 2008, 04:33 AM
OK, this image comes to mind as Phoenix attempts more sample delivery techniques.
Click to view attachmentToo soon?!
Sorry, couldn't resist
Astro0
Shaka
Jun 10 2008, 04:47 AM
Bad Astro0.....no donut!
jmjawors
Jun 10 2008, 05:02 AM
Hehe. They better start vibrating that TEGA instrument... there's a lot of sample to get through that screen!
Pando
Jun 10 2008, 05:16 AM
ElkGroveDan
Jun 10 2008, 05:25 AM
Good one.
climber
Jun 10 2008, 06:45 AM
Thank you! We finaly know what happened to MPL !
As old as Voyager
Jun 10 2008, 07:42 PM
Nice one!
You can just hear back at Phoenix HQ, 'What do you mean none made it through the screen? Keep digging!'
Deimos
Jun 10 2008, 08:00 PM
You have to be careful posting images like this ... it brought Phoenix operations planning to a standstill for a couple minutes before the laughter stopped.
smh
Jun 11 2008, 09:38 AM
dmuller
Jun 11 2008, 10:07 AM
Rumor has is that Phoenix was seen digging on Mars in the spring of 2020 ...
movie
djellison
Jun 11 2008, 01:09 PM
as appropriate a thread as any for this
ElkGroveDan
Jun 11 2008, 03:03 PM
QUOTE (smh @ Jun 11 2008, 01:38 AM)
That was good thanks.
tuvas
Jun 11 2008, 03:06 PM
Don't forget the all important discovery of water on Mars.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpg
fredk
Jun 11 2008, 05:18 PM
Sheesh - did you guys notice the number of downloads on Astro's original image? 2000 plus...
tedstryk
Jun 11 2008, 05:24 PM
QUOTE (tuvas @ Jun 11 2008, 03:06 PM)
Don't forget the all important discovery of water on Mars.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpgHa! And all these silly scientists have spent over a billion dollars on this follow the water approach.
climber
Jun 11 2008, 06:11 PM
QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jun 11 2008, 07:24 PM)
Ha! And all these silly scientists have spent over a billion dollars on this follow the water approach.
Somebody must have risen the
bar too high
dmuller
Jun 14 2008, 07:06 AM
Now I get it! No wonder the landing was successful. Look at all those peanut shells
Zvezdichko
Jun 14 2008, 08:21 AM
Just for fun!
A slight task: can you guess the microbial species I have mounted on the image?
Airbag
Jun 14 2008, 01:01 PM
Escherichia coli?
Airbag
Zvezdichko
Jun 14 2008, 01:08 PM
Nope, actually, Bacillus subtilis and Yersinia pestis. That means: Don't send people to Mars
tty
Jun 14 2008, 07:27 PM
Actually Yersinia pestis should be pretty harmless. You can't inhale it so you won't get pulmonary plague and I don't think rats are much of a problem on Mars.
Decepticon
Jun 15 2008, 03:14 AM
nprev
Jun 15 2008, 03:27 AM
...oh, crap...shoudn't be laughing, but I gotta!!!
James Sorenson
Jun 15 2008, 03:37 AM
Haha oh wow, nice one
.
CosmicRocker
Jun 15 2008, 03:42 AM
James Sorenson
Jun 15 2008, 03:48 AM
Yet, will we see little green men walking on it?
.
glennwsmith
Jun 15 2008, 05:02 AM
smh and Decepticon -- how do people come up with this stuff ?!? Hilarious! The Shakespearean comic relief! Wow! So this will be a new evolutionary lobe for UMSF -- Doug, did you ever suspect ....?!?
Decepticon
Jun 15 2008, 06:40 AM
Just One more...
jmjawors
Jun 15 2008, 06:42 AM
QUOTE (Decepticon @ Jun 15 2008, 01:40 AM)
Just One more...
Oooh... some would consider that a low blow.
Astro0
Jun 15 2008, 09:14 AM
Maybe if Phoenix digs just a little bit deeper....
Click to view attachmentEnjoy
Astro0
climber
Jun 15 2008, 09:30 AM
You missed part of the conversation Astro! Probably a MRO com issue
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jamescanvin
Jun 15 2008, 09:35 AM
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 15 2008, 10:14 AM)
Maybe if Phoenix digs just a little bit deeper....
Genius!
Stu
Jun 15 2008, 10:36 AM
Wouldn't this shake things up..?
Click to view attachment
jmknapp
Jun 15 2008, 11:20 AM
QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 15 2008, 06:36 AM)
Wouldn't this shake things up..?
My god... it's full of stars!
As old as Voyager
Jun 15 2008, 01:51 PM
QUOTE (Decepticon @ Jun 15 2008, 04:14 AM)
Ha ha, perhaps like some bizarre fractal, Mars is constructed entirely of microscopic Mars faces of varying sizes! (But only under certain lighting conditions)
PFK
Jun 15 2008, 04:06 PM
Following on from the recent discussion on recursion:
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Decepticon
Jun 15 2008, 04:59 PM
HA HA now that Tops it!
Run Away thread!
centsworth_II
Jun 15 2008, 06:08 PM
And on the macroscopic end of the fractal scale...
Click to view attachmentWMAP Data Product Images
Airbag
Jun 15 2008, 08:47 PM
I know I posted this before in another thread, but I guess it seems appropriate to do so again here.
Click to view attachmentAirbag
Oersted
Jun 15 2008, 10:30 PM
Astro0, Airbag and others, hilarious stuff!
Astro0
Jun 20 2008, 07:09 AM
Phoenix discovers ice on Mars!
Click to view attachmentEnjoy
Astro0
paxdan
Jun 20 2008, 07:41 AM
Makes me wonder, can the RAC take a picture of the SSI?
climber
Jun 20 2008, 07:41 AM
Astro,
This is ...er..sublime
Tman
Jun 20 2008, 08:04 AM
Delicious!
That's for the front-page story then.
(Note, you have to fill out the RAC yet)
dmuller
Jun 20 2008, 08:09 AM
Question: How did we get from here
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 15 2008, 07:14 PM)
to here?
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Jun 20 2008, 05:09 PM)
Obviously the Martians are very good at hospitality. The first drink is on them
Phil Stooke
Jun 20 2008, 04:47 PM
Apologies for the outright theft and any other sins I may have committed lately.
Phil
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Stu
Jun 20 2008, 05:36 PM
Hints of ice beneath Phoenix...
Click to view attachment
PhilCo126
Jun 20 2008, 05:52 PM
Great cartoons indeed... but I'm afraid the refreshing drink would evaporate immediately...
Haven't seen any cartoon of a completely frozen Phoenix Lander during the next Martian winter
Stu
Jun 20 2008, 11:09 PM
Not a cartoon as such, but I made this ages ago... not realistic now, based on what we know, but still makes me feel sad...
Click to view attachment
Stu
Jun 21 2008, 06:01 AM
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 20 2008, 05:47 PM)
Apologies for the outright theft and any other sins I may have committed lately.
Hey, look... !
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/blogsPost.php?bID=209
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