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How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?
tcd004 writes "Miles O'Brien narrates this video simulation of NASA's next Mars shot, which promises to out-gun all previous efforts. The Mini Cooper-sized Mars Science Laboratory, which is now named Curiosity, will crawl the Martian surface under steam from a nuclear powerplant — but it's a gentle giant compared to its predecessors. Recent theories have emerged that previous attempts at identifying organic compounds in Martian soil may have actually cooked away any signs of life-giving elements. Curiosity will go to great pains to avoid scorching the Earth ... erm ... Mars."
Yo dawg we herd you liked mini coopers so we put a mini cooper on yo mars planet.
>gentile giant
What, it's an uncircumcised, nuclear powered Mini Cooper?
+1 for the great headline!
Otherwise, I'll state the obvious: Carefully!
Personally, I don't think the space lab's religion is any of our business.
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
How many Volkswagens equal one Mini-Cooper?
rj
"It's" is a conraction. It means "it is."
I think you mean't "contraction"
"When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
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One wonders how much BMW paid to have "the Mini Cooper" used to describe this thing... :)
Two libraries of Congress.
And a ping-pong ball.
"It's" is a conraction. It means "it is."
I think you mean't "contraction"
I think you meant "meant"
You mean the way real people would nuke a living tree and its nine foot tall blue worshipers?
I don't know why they claim it is a "Gentle Giant". It's got a nuclear powered LASER used for remotely zapping targets of interest to determine their composition!
I mean, how would you like it if a giant robot dropped out of the sky and started shooting frikking laser beams at you! ;)
The law of correcting typos: attemping to correct a previous poster's typo creates a typo from the current poster.
You meant "attempting", apparently it's recursive...
You meant "recursive"; apparently it's recursive.
If playing hero system has taught me anything, it's that just putting plate armor on it will keep it safe from impact.
Just like an egg put in a steel box and dropped for 500 feet.
Almost exactly like it, in fact.
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"with sufficient thrust, even a brick can fly" - unknown F-4 pilot
Won't stop anti-Nuke whargarblers from protesting about the nuclearization of space. Apparently we're supposed to send diesels up there or something.
As much as football fields, mini coopers and libraries of congress are ridiculous and imprecise, they are pretty decent references for public, non-technical descriptions.
What, so they're gonna drop a mini cooper the size of a football field onto the library of Congress? I didn't get that from the video...
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