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How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat dept.

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."

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  1. Re:"Its" is possessive by Shikaku · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The law of correcting typos: attemping to correct a previous poster's typo creates a typo from the current poster.

  2. Re:A better question by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do we stop submitters from using words like "yo" in the headline?

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  3. Re:Show of hands... by pluther · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For not knowing, you'd have to turn in your Trekkie card.

    For having to ask, that'll be your Google license.

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  4. Re:RTFA by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "How Do Yo Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?"

    Clearly, it's a pun on the word "Yo-yo".

    Since the plan is that it does down, but not back up again, it's just a "yo".

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  5. Re:Appropriate narrator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I thought I was the only one who clicked on it for that reason. Very disappointed :(