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NASA Announces Next Mars Mission
Grant Henninger writes "Today, NASA announced their final selection for the Mars Scout 2013 mission: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. MAVEN will provide the first direct measurements ever taken to address key scientific questions about Mars's evolution by measuring characteristics of its atmospheric gases, upper atmosphere, solar wind, and ionosphere. The mission, estimated to cost $485M, is scheduled for launch in late 2013."
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Third, you should enjoy a big, big load. After he locks into your cervix he will begin to cum a lot. Some pigs can pump out almost two cups of cum. At first, the semen is clear and somewhat thin. Then a thicker, milky semen that has most of the sperm comes, a lot comes. Lastly some very thick semen like jelly is slowly pumped inside you.
It takes a pig about 15 - 20 minutes to cum. The whole time his tip is in your cervix. Every time he squirts his tip will flex and massage your cervix. The shaft is narrow so it is mostly the tip in your cervix that does the sexy stuff. Plus being filled really full of thick cum. That thick cum can stay in you for days so you should be ready for that. It can slide out much later without much warning.
Having a special pig that is kept away from other farm animals and is kept in very clean conditions is a real good idea. Pigs like to be clean if given the chance. Did you ever see the Green Acres TV show? The pig on that show is a good example of how well a pig can fit into peoples' lives.
A cuban, russian, white american, and a nigger are all on a lifeboat together in the middle of the ocean. The cuban pulls out a fine cigar, lights it, and tosses the cigar overboard. The white american, ruskie, and nigger all look at him amazed. "What the fuck man, why'd you just throw it overboard?"
The cuban shrugs. "Man, I'm from cuba, we have plenty of cigars, what's one?"
The russian guy pulls out a bottle of good vodka, takes a few swigs and throws it overboard, again the other three are amazed, and the russian just shrugs. "I'm from russia, ve have plenty of vodka, what's one bottle?"
The white american promptly grabs the nigger and throws him overboard.
Hoyven MAVEN!
Wow, what a boring science mission.
I say we attack them instead and keep the planet for ourselves.
NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeks to characterize and understand Mars as a dynamic system, including its present and past environment, climate cycles, geology and biological potential
That means, How difficult is it to land troops?
Yes, but are they looking for oil?
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Hmm... MAVEN? Does that mean anything? People who write acronyms contain so much fail.
Can we keep the same units of measurement this time? (That was a Mars mission right?)
it appears to be the fist time I have done a BIOS Power-On Self Test
In other news NASA has just issued a press release stating that the proposed $485M mission is already over budget.
Will they be using the metric or imperial system for the measurements this time? Better make sure they get this right,... ;-)
I mean, I may not know much about space exploration, although I find the topic fun and interesting, but as they are planning this mission, which in effect is the studying of Mars atmosphere and weather, why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone and study Mars' crust or at least, something more like a few hundred feet into the ground itself?
Whatever equipment they send, have a missile or something that can impact or dig into the soil, be launched from space directly onto Mars soil. The resulting hole that would be from could receive the visit from a drone, who could take samples and make various analyses. After all, the surface soil samples they've been doing, it's all nice and dandy, but the real story, I believe should be what's underneath it all.
That way, they get data from the air and they get a sample of what Mars is made of down below. We may end up finding more resources available to help with towards a real man space exploration, as there may be resources awaiting to be utilized.
Depending on cost, etc.., they may even be able to have key locations targetted for drilling and just have a drone in each location dropped.
Gives a better perspective, might see some variations in what is found, depending on location..
Have us engineering students, engineers and insane rocket enthusiasts/investors design a mission to mars using live animals to test as many technologies as possible before you even think of sending a human mission. We US engineers are either bored building endless varieties of consumer crap or worrying what are we will be asked to build in a war with Russia and Iran. I vote C, a moused mission to mars. Think of the merchandising!
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Partly because you are a cocksucker.
...that a good 10% of scientific work goes into inventing catchy acronyms :o) My boss is particularly good at this. And he has to, in order to secure the maximum amount of funding for our research. The catchier the better.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
The McCain campaign has come under fire for an Internet ad that accuses Obama of calling Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin "a pig."
In fact, Obama last week likened the Republican ticket plans for government reform to putting "lipstick on a pig."
Even the Arizona senator admitted today that Obama didn't call Palin a pig, but defended the ad anyway.
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There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.
I wonder what experiment is his. He must be sitting on the board.
Checking the system for measurements would put the cost at $486 million, and therefore they can't afford it.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
MAVEN - the toilet paper!
MAVEN - the action figure!
MAVEN - the breakfast cereal!
MAVEN - the flame thrower! (the kids love this one)
Similar to the upcoming US election results
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This decision enables them to market their mission as providing potentially useful data to climatologists on earth. NASA has to secure their funding, after all, and climate change is hot hot hot.
yea, but after 2012?
FTFA:
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...] camera can show Martian landscape features as small as a kitchen table
Exactly how big is a kitchen table? Is it an official unit of measurement? While we're at it, how long is a piece of string?
No wonder the original Polar Lander crashed...
Why the hell don't we spend that $458 million on developing something useful like...i dunno...a battery the size of a suitcase that can recharge in 1 hour and power a car for 250 mile at 70mph? Or a hydroxy generating system that can power a home generator? Or a solar panel that is cheap enough for the average home owner to install and power their entire home? These things are all just barely out of reach. $500 million could solve on of these energy problem yet it is deemed more important to study the atmosphere of a planet that we can barely access with remote platforms. Please don't get me wrong. I love science and space exploration, but we really need to start prioritizing our needs as a country. If any one of the above energy solutions were found it would be conceivable that he costs of further exploration would come down drastically. Horse before the cart people....
"...a civilian some of the time, a soldier part of the time and a patriot all of the time." -Brig. Gen. James Drain
...and I'm taking an "atlas." Anyone else? Who wants to play?
weird... for some reason, when I read "$485M", I thought "oi, that's cheap!"
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Did they let professor Frink name this one?
"Now I'd like to announce Nasa's new Mars spacecraft, the HOYVIN-Maven"
I wonder if it will be equipped with an Opti-Grab? A lot of money for NASA to spend just to find out that it's not us the Martians hate, it's these cans! They hate these cans!
2020? :D
Space exploration isn't well served by remote, safe, privileged people whose real goal is a comfortable living.
We need some real explorers on Mars right now, anything less is simply pathetic.
When the scientists run of things to over-hype? Build up expectation too much, then let the public, and they'll become bored.
The follow-up mission, "Mars Astronomical Research Viewpoint INstallation", will establish a remote-controlled astronomical observatory on Mars. Through the thin Martian atmosphere they hope to be able to get a better view of Venus, with no pesky obstructions.
Bow-ties are cool.
Screw atmospheric gasses. The Mars Science Laboratory will take hours (yes, hours) of true color (yes, color, no blurry black-and-white shit) real-time (yes, real-time, no silly little frame sequences) HD (yes, high-friggin-definition) stereoscopic (yes, stereoscopic, aka 3D) video on Mars. Didn't come in your pants yet? That's why they leave the camera on during atmospheric descent, baby!
Is there a website for the MAVEN PROJECT?
interesting, so while maven will be landing on mars, maVen will be in jail wishing he could have put up the dvdscr.
One could argue that the credit crisis that"s been looming on everyone since July 07 was engineered ...
Ok, some small banks are out ... but what about JPMorgan, or Goldman Sacks ?
Sure, people will get unemployed, commit suicide, and more generally rampage the cities with M60s ... but who cares about the poor bank managers with their salaries in the $thoushands per hour ???
In order to feed the hungry thingies, most of the world has to eat at most a bowl of rice a week ... Now's the time for the average joe sixpack ? Wheel turns, it's called "LIFE" !!!
"Good luck with that" and "ROFL"
get a life, really
With the economy right now is it a wise idea to spend so much money to find out about something that will contribute to society in no way.