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Oh come on, Louis.
Skewed priorities? Skewed priorities??

What do you expect from NASA?

"Curiozzity- teh hunt for alienzzz! OMGZ"

"Watch its laser zap them boring rocks, play Alien Robot but mind the lag, it's killer!"

Since two days after the landing, I have -daily- changed my dual screen wallpaper at work ( I work in digitization) with 'calibration pics" from curiosity, people come visiting my workplace, just to see them, now there.

All I tell them is: you ain't seen nuttin' yet, these cameras are amazing! (I also show anaglyphs, have red/green glasses handy   )

hint: really, eally watch those pics on a BIG screen, not on a 13" laptop, and let it soak in for a minute or two. You'll be amazed, even that 'boring gravel' gives you a special feeling. It's mesmerizing.

I get the point of 'reaching for the masses' but you can not argue their pics are sub par. compare them with spirit/oppies first pics, heck or even pathfinder.

We're in for really, really spectacular stuff.

(silently biding my time to download a composite panorama to print out in hi-res and bigass dimensions   I'm sure they'll deliver.  )

BTW the team did a Q&A on Reddit, they're the best:  http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y … _the_mars/

Drupal is cool, but you must be committed. Spammers use backdoors, Drupal patches these, but it's not automatic (this might have changed, not sure)

making it easy to post, it's dangerous, you might implement a kind of filter so they can only use HTML or insert web links after a certain period of time, that way spammers can't get their fun....

25 tons, wow, that does open possibilities.

You should've seen spirit's landing on NM, *that* was momentous! that thread went on and on 24hrs a day, for weeks in a row....

I'm afraid NM is as barren as Mars, at the moment.

If you want the good stuff around curiosity, visit unmannedspaceflight  and be amazed, those guys are faster than NASA regarding compositing pano's and what not.

Ugh...

When one checks 'new posts' it all but looks like we've become a squat for spammers

I wrote the former entry some hours ago, forgot to hit 'submit'

Maybe now I'm a bit more clear in the head, grin.

I think it will be some kind of 'stakeholder' bonanza, like in the goldrush, but not poor guys trying for their luck, no.  More like the big corps trying to be first and patent the h*ll out of things they do there 'first'   

you think patent wars are bad today? Wait untill we set foot on Mars...

MitshubichiSuperCorp hitching a ride with a small dumptruck in their luggage, using it there for a week and saying 'hey we invented a NEW way of hauling regolith!' and claiming any possible future mining rights through their technique. et c.

speculation in the extreme.

'We can't let the other guy (rival company) get away with an opportunity like that!'

Meanwhile, they set up outposts et c, demand for transportation rises, etc etc.

people end up there, first the loyal companymen in the extreme, later more mundane workers and jack of all trades....

And then of course there's an uprising   and Mars wil be free, free free!

2500????

Where's Clark's comment?

Man, man, man, Elon having to talk to such dimwits again and again, he must be a very patient man!

Of course, the more he does these 'smalltalks' the more people see it, I guess, so it's a goooood thing!

No, Mars,Luna does not rotate around her axis so a tether there will not be very plausible

... And I bet a significant % of Musk's costs are purely cutting red tape ... Being the first non-gov, must be quite expensive to slash and hack a path through tangled legislative hindrances.

not that much at lower pressure

use 'em, of course

"my great-grandfather is now part of a tree on Luna!"