Watching the first MER pics coming in now!

[Fridays Child]

NASA TV is streaming them at Discovery.com.

[Dookus]

1. Where on Discovery.com?

[proud patriot]

2. Here's the link

WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO I love the internet

http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/nasatv.htm

[POed_Ex_Repub]

4. Wow!

Now THAT is cool!

[proud patriot]

8. Isn't it though

All the people in that room have dreamed of this day
their whole lives . They are just giddy with excitement .

I cannot help but smile , and feel so lucky to be a part
of it , from here in my living room .

[Dookus]

3. aaargh...

WHERE?!

discovery.com just takes me to a generic home page.

[Fridays Child]

6. Here...just above you...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=982583#982593

:)

[Dookus]

7. thank you...

we posted at the same time.

[kodi]

5. fantasitic!!!! thanks!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

i was out tonight star gazing and could not wait to see the pix from mars.

before i die i hope humanity plants a foot there.

space, the final frontier.

or as buzz lightyear would say.. TO INIFINITY, AND BEYOND!

[punpirate]

9. We should be a lot further by now....

Hubble's a great breakthrough, but it's basically a throw-off from military spending on spy satellites.

The shuttle would have been safer and more efficient if the military weren't funding a portion of it (since it would be launching military satellites).

We've spent a _lot_ of money on newer and better ways of blowing people up, but not nearly enough on science and exploration.

Funny, when I was poking around for the latest photos from the rover, I ran across a news blurb that said ion engines to be used on the Cassini satellite launch to Saturn had finally passed their tests. Somewhere in my library, I have a text book on hot ion engines, circa 1968. *sigh* Has taken a lot longer than it should.

About Mars... there's not a lot to be found there, from prior missions. This is mostly, still, a demonstration of technology. For us, the climate (without considerable energy input in the form of nuclear plants or more sophisticated solar arrays than available today) would be inhabitable. With maximum summertime temperatures of 17 deg. F, and minimum winter temps of -170 deg. F, this is not a place we'd find comfortable (although there might be a few daring Canadians and Alaskans who would aver that they might be more comfortable there--until they discovered the absence of wood for wood stoves).