Readers may recall when I visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum last year and took this photo of the upcoming exhibit for the new Mars Rover “Curiosity”.
It looked pretty neat…and to everyone’s surprise and thrill it actually made it to Mars and is fully operational. But now, there’s a been a new development on Mars…
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My wife (the cat lover) is not amused 🙂
Mop, mop, drain, mutter – reminder to self “Don’t open Friday Funnies with a mouth full of coffee!”
Fabulous!!
These headlines are self explanatory:
Drill bits on rover could contaminate Mars
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-drill-bits-rover-contaminate-mars.html
Mars Rover May Be Contaminated with Earth Microbes
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/14/161156787/mars-rover-may-be-contaminated-with-earth-microbes
lol. thanks,
Funny !!!
My beagle is rolling on the floor, kicking his laigs ‘n laughing his tail off!
Oddly it was last seen creepily menacing a rock.
The next mission to Mars will be a sample return mission. The return vehicle,”Satisfaction” is expected to bring the poor Martian cat back.
Also, there is this discovery on Mars by ‘Curiosity’:
http://i47.tinypic.com/21kmp2e.jpg
: )
John
So that’s what Martians look like.
Dennis Kuzara says:
September 21, 2012 at 7:29 am
These headlines are self explanatory:
Drill bits on rover could contaminate Mars
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-drill-bits-rover-contaminate-mars.html
Mars Rover May Be Contaminated with Earth Microbes
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/14/161156787/mars-rover-may-be-contaminated-with-earth-microbes
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At least we saved Mars from hairballs …..
H.G. Wells would approve.
Old. Had this one the day after the landing.
Dennis Kuzara says:
September 21, 2012 at 7:29 am
Mars Rover May Be Contaminated with Earth Microbes
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I don’t understand why is everyone so obsessed with not contaminating any other celestial bodies with Earth life. The reason why we’re here is because the basic tendency behind all life is to spread and to occupy any place that can be occupied – so I really don’t get it why aren’t we already trying to do so with Venus and Mars more actively. Sending some microbes there is the least we can do.
Found this on the NASA Curiosity link. Magnetic portals between sun and earth. But of course we are certain that magnetic fields do not affect climate. They did in the past, the paleo evidence is clear, but not now since CO2 gets stronger over time. Scientists have a consensus on this, which means it is irrefutable. Not that it is true, but rather no one can speak about it to refute it, without suffering the instruments of torture.
My dogs are howling with laughter!
Not amused, due to unfortunate timing – one of my cats died last night.
We are not amused.
Best laugh I had all day! Thanks Anthony! Good one.
There are no felines on Mars. Only marsupials.
Another skinny cat in the making.
ferdberple says:
September 21, 2012 at 8:37 am
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Re: Magnetic portals between sun and earth video
That is an excellent video, and I think it deserves to be on the solar page. There is more to those portals than one can guess from the video. Solar magnetic field plugs directly into the Earth’s magnetic field as geomagnetic measurements witness daily.
However what was not known (I immodestly claim to have discovered it) is that the historic data of magnetic field as interpolated from past records, show that in the Antarctic the Earth’s magnetic field directly tracks the solar cycles, as I show here:
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/TMCa.htm
However I regret to say that it is not the plain sailing from the ‘consensus science’ which claims that solar variation is nothing to do with the Earth’s environment. The argument against one could consider laughable as you can see if you follow this post:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/15/f10-7-flux-sea-level-and-the-holocene/#comment-1081068
and beyond
I am a cat lover and I am amused. My wife is also, but I do not think I will show her the picture. 😉
We had a JPL guy at our local library a couple weeks ago who did a presentation on the rover landing. I asked him why they’d send something named “Curiosity” to a place where there weren’t any cats. He said to hold that thought, it was covered in one of his slides. This was that slide.
Last year he showed us the north pole of Saturn where the aliens are setting up a base. I like that these guys have a sense of humor. They do make clear that these are tongue in cheek statements. This guy is a propulsion engineer on the Cassini mission and is part of the group that calculates how to use fuel for the maximum science by changing orbital characteristics with the least amount of fuel. I wish I could remember his name, he’s very good at public presentations of JPL’s work.
I don’t know why all you cat-folks are so upset. Whitey is obviously in a pose of religious ecstasy, bathed in the light of his god’s grace beaming down on him. Recent history on Earth shows cats racing to become one with their laser beam. Why should it be different on Mars?