Hailing Mars rover landing, Obama tells NASA if Curiosity finds Martians, ‘Please let me know’
Source: Washington Post
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE Hailing NASAs mind-boggling Mars landing of the Curiosity rover, President Barack Obama urged the scientists operating the craft on Monday to phone home immediately if they find any extra-terrestrials.
If in fact you do make contact with Martians, please let me know right away, Obama told controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadenia, Calif. Ive got a lot of other things on my plate, but I suspect that that will go to the top of the list. Even if theyre just microbes, it will be pretty exciting.
Obama spoke by phone from Air Force One as he flew to a campaign stop in Iowa eight days after the car-sized rover landed on the Martian surface. The touchdown followed a complex series of maneuvers involving intricately timed rocket firings, a huge parachute and cables lowering the craft to the Mars surface.
The two-year, $2.5 billion Curiosity mission includes looking for environmental conditions that might have given rise to life. However, as high-tech as it is, the nuclear-powered rover doesnt have the tools needed to detect living or fossil microorganisms. Instead, the rover will hunt for lifes chemical building blocks.
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like water. this planet is screwed, go find another to conquer, dominate with avarice and greed and destroy, humans.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)is you will go down with this ship gasping for breath. go vote or something. people like you are boring. no clue
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)mac56
(17,564 posts)thanks for keeping it light
edbermac
(15,933 posts)AnnieBW
(10,409 posts)yep
Doc_Technical
(3,521 posts)by having a Slim Whitman CD ready to play
"Indian Love Call"
formercia
(18,479 posts)so the GOP doesn't have them deported from Mars.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)What President Obama doesn't seem to know is, we've already found Martians. Right here on Earth.