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Mars Curiosity Rover's First Road Trip Planned
littlesparkvt writes "NASA has announced the first destination for the Curiosity Rover. They're sending it to 'Glenelg,' a natural intersection of three kinds of terrain. 'The trek to Glenelg will send the rover 1,300 feet (400 meters) east-southeast of its landing site. One of the three types of terrain intersecting at Glenelg is layered bedrock, which is attractive as the first drilling target. "We're about ready to load our new destination into our GPS and head out onto the open road," Grotzinger said. "Our challenge is there is no GPS on Mars, so we have a roomful of rover-driver engineers providing our turn-by-turn navigation for us." Prior to the rover's trip to Glenelg, the team in charge of Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, is planning to give their mast-mounted, rock-zapping laser and telescope combination a thorough checkout. On Saturday night, Aug. 18, ChemCam is expected to "zap" its first rock in the name of planetary science. It will be the first time such a powerful laser has been used on the surface of another world.'"
Did they remember to attach a shark to it? It can't possibly function without one!
This is very disturbing. Not your comment, but the fact that enough people wasted their modpoints to get your post to +5 Funny.
Now sit back and take a long hard look at this.... after a while the only thought left is... "why?"
It doesnt even come close to barely scratching the broad definition of "Funny". It *may* have been funny many years ago when the Austin Powers movies were in cinemas, but it ceased to be funny soon afterwards.
Are there actually people out there who genuinely find that comment funny? If so we should be concerned, deeply disturbed and frankly, quite scared.
What is wrong with us? Does humanity have no real hope left?