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Spirit Rover Lands Successfully
So, as I write this, the latest word is: the Spirit rover has landed and NASA has received a signal indicating it landed right-side up (so it shouldn't have any problems in the unfolding process) and will shortly be retracting the protective airbags which kept it from splattering all over the countryside. Y'all can fill in later news in the comments below. There's a nice site with up-to-the-minute text updates.
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stop supporting microsoft with pirating their software!!!!!
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Yeah, every day i log onto /. and read all this anti-america stuff. Well go ahead and continue cus we're still number 1.
This is another reason why I'm proud to be an American. While the Russian, European, and Japanese space agencies languish far behind (where's the Beagle???), the US with NASA has continually been leading the way in exploring our solar system and contributing to the fields of astronomy and science. Whether its collecting comet dust or searching for life on Mars, we will continue to lead. This just adds another successful feather in our cap.
There are some idiots around who hate the US with a mad passion and feel the world would be a better place if the US didn't exist. This
remarkable mission shows that there are some good things the USA does that no other country can match.
This is a great day for science and humanity.
Slashdot Moderation: From positive to terrible in 2 "insightful" posts.
Don't mod that up ffs. :(
the post was already modded down before you posted your offtopic drivel
welcome to my ever-increasing foes list of people who don't have any sense
"Europe is up in arms about our desire to enforce the UN resolutions against Iraq."
Silly rabbit, The U.S. in Iraq is about blowing up people to maintain our steady flow of oil in the future. UN resolutions, evil dictators, weapons of mass destruction, terrorists... all smoke and mirrors and feel-goods for consumption by shallow silly rabbits.
Do not mod up people who reply to goatse links calling them trolls
What they are doing is posting the goatse link as AC and then posting logged in and replying to their own AC comments saying that they are goatse links in order to gain karma.
MOD THIS DOWN
Well i guess you missed the point. I said this really should all be sepperate from politics. However, if you want to get into that. I really don't get my information from the people like michael moore or al frankin. Really i think they are funny but not where you find out whats really going on. People like noam chomsky and howard zinn are the people I listen to.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm waiting for the sport edition with chrome wheels, tail wing, and Type-R stickers.
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
wow ... no response for your obvious superior intellectual ability. I suppose Mr. Malda is a complete incompetent moron then, I mean he has only created one of the most popular sites on the web. Not to mention the audience he has.. wow. What a freaking dumbass.
t would be nice if L-Mart can start a production line
Is that one better or one worse than K-Mart?
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Tell me: which party drove the deficit into the trillions? And who was responsible for enormous surplus? And who took the budget back into deficit again? The Republican party certainly isn't FISCALLY conservative!
We will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them.
...no. You weren't around for the Bay of Pigs, were you? The world didn't end in a mushroom cloud at the hands of the Soviets, and it won't end as the result of terrorism. Bush Govt. spending is the goal, and your wallet is the only thing being threatened.
There is no proof that the US faced this kind of threat. Terrorism is routine (so are headaches and car crashes), yes, but doomsday?
You've bought into the biggest lie of this century.
You're simply reflecting the kind of self-rationalizing chicken little mindset that says more about your reading material and ability to secure a personal opinion, than it does about your ability to postulate world peace and security.
Oh my, MOD that last comment up. TOO FUNNY man!
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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What a shame that a thread on a great scientific achievement of interest and benefit to the whole world has to turn into Yet Another Nationalistic Thread. That's Slashdot for you these days though.
Anyways..
will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them
That's quite a dramatic claim you're making there, especially considering there hasn't been a "9/11" since.. well.. 9/11, as it happens. Now would that be due to extreme dilligence on the part of the security forces (remember to watch out for those almanac toting terrorists), or for some other reason..?
Unfortunately our world of seperate church & state can't comprehend the world they live in. Church is everything there.
Okay, this is not a troll.. honestly.. I promise. I'll try to be as gentle as possible here. America is not the greatest country to hold up as being an example of church and state seperation. Sure. On the books it's all seperate, but you just ask Roy "Roy's Rock" Moore, or any of the similarly fanatical, or indeed George "Atheists are not American citizens" Bush. Or indeed anyone who has to take the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag.
It's a PROVEN FACT Iraq was pursuing these weapons.
I can go one better than that. It's a SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN FACT that writing things in caps doesn't necessarily make them true.
Perhaps you could cite some sources for these facts? Because all I seem to see is a big absence of any WMD's, very little in the way of potential development platforms for WMD programs, and what was found was insubstantial to the point of being inconsequential. As for scientists - which scientists have you been listening to? because everything I've heard from them has been stating that there were no WMD programs.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.