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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."
>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.
"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..."
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.
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.