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NASA Mars Satellite Snaps 1st Public-Picked Photos
coondoggie writes "NASA today said it took eight high-resolution photos of Mars that were chosen through a public suggestion box the space agency put up in January. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is nicknamed 'the people's camera,' NASA stated. Through the suggestion box known as HiWish, NASA has received nearly 1,000 suggestions. The first eight images of areas the public selected are available online."
And they listened.
SLASHDOTTED!
An article about pictures isn't that interesting when you can't see the pictures...
I need more pictures of the face, and Kermit the Frog
Is that you can only mod them down once.
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The actual link to the pics is here but its down right now . http://uahirise.org/releases/hiwish-captions.php
You know you guys have to wait for the images to get from Mars to here. stop hitting REFRESH!
I use NoScript and AdBlock so noticed none of those.
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I want pictures of the ancient martian cities. And the mostly naked martian girls.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Your comment would make sense if it was procured or launched since August 2008. HiRISE has been on station over Mars since 10MAR2006. The asset is there, not using it would be a bigger waste of money.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter cost $720 million dollars. There are over 75 million students in the United States. Please reply with your plans for fixing the education system with a budget of $9.60 per child.
Personally, I can't think of a better way to encourage students to dream big and to pursue science than a mission like this one.
Buzzkill is right. You could at least have formulated a reasonable complaint, instead of being a whiny bitch. How much do you figure it costs to snap a few pictures using a satellite which is already in orbit of mars? Enough to buy lunch for 10 kids in your hypothetical "closing schools"?
I'll give you 20 to 1 odds on 90% of those "suggestions" being something along the lines of "Take pictures of Uranus!".
NASA budget for 2010 = 0.52% federal (18724 million).
That is almost exactly 26 days of war in iraq or about 1500 times the bonus of the CEO of Goldman Sachs after receiving the bailout.
Our return on investment for NASA is spectacular.
We have to multitask as a species. If we stopped the whole world to work on one problem at a time, nothing would get done.
Context switching is expensive.
With the first link, the chain is forged.
720 Million was just to cost of the physical craft. That pales in comparison to the billions up billions of dollars worth of infrastructure required to even get the thing off the ground.
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Cognitive dissonance I guess. They rail against bailouts that sucked but probably did save the economy from a total collapse. But then things like pretty pictures of Mars it's all 'whatever it takes!'.
What you call "cognitive dissonance" I call "having a sense of proportion".
In other news, I'm unhappy with the automotive and banking bailouts for wasting money, yet just yesterday I payed extra for a completely unnecessary helping of guacamole for my quesadillas. Clearly I am a hypocrite.
The enemies of Democracy are
Guacamole and sour cream are never unnecessary when it comes to quesadillas!
The sending of this message pretty much inconveniences everyone involved.
I'm a conservative libertarian, and I'm eager to mod you down as well.
What can I say ... your comments are a perfect demonstration of the fact that education is wasted on most people.
The US spends about 1 trillion dollars per year on education. The entire NASA budget clocks in at under 19 billion. If you scrapped NASA entirely, you could increase education spending by less than 2 percent. Now, it's clear where you stand on the issue, but I'd personally much rather use that money to push back the boundaries of human knowledge instead of giving it to the school system and praying for a miracle.
Throwing money at schools won't improve education. The extra money will go for more rent-a-cops, metal detectors and an extra limo for the members of the school board. It has been tried before.
However canceling NASA will eliminate the aspirations and goals of thousands of bright young people and put us in a position where all the knowledge and skills of a generation of aerospace engineers are lost. The cost of restarting the space program after giving it up for a decade would dwarf the amount saved. We give that up and we as a nation will have accepted our place among the third world nations while nations like Pakistan, India, China and even North Korea take the lead.
I agree that we need a larger focus on education in this country, but gutting NASA isn't the answer. It is going to take a major policy change to fix education because the system is degenerate. If that costs more, then can find the money somewhere else.
Ah, Samara Valles you wrinkly old bellybutton you! http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_016895_1525 [www.uahirise.org]
The cost listed on wikipedia is the budgeted cost of the mission, which includes construction of the spacecraft, the launch vehicle (and a use of the launch site), and the operations team for the spacecraft for its expected lifetime. So yes, 720 million is the total cost. I don't know what other "infrastructure" you could possibly be talking about.
>>And the mostly naked martian girls.
Or really any chick with 3 boobs will do.
That figure is off by a factor 6-10 too. In October 2008 the number of people enrolled in anything from kindergarten to college was ~76 million. ~48 million in elementary and high school. Source.
$18.7 billion / 76 million students = $246/student
$18.7 billion / 48 million students = $390/student
Doubt that would fix much, even if every single dollar trickled all the way down.
Don't forget the hot sauce!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Just doing my part to bring knowledge to the unenlightened.
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