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Congrats to NASA and all partners on the Mars landing!

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Posted on August 5, 2012 at 23:31:24
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 including, of course, Canada where I live, on the successful Mars module landing. That was some of the most exciting television I've seen in a while. Beats any SF movie.

I've been watching space science since I saw the headlines about Sputnik in a bus station newstand back in 1958, and wondered what the hell a "satellite" was. I've been reading SF for even longer, and this was really watching SF come to life.



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RE: Congrats to NASA and all partners on the Mars landing!, posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:52:51
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 And at a claimed one half cent per taxpayer it's a great value.

 

Here's a YouTube video about it, posted on August 6, 2012 at 15:00:26
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Yup!...., posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:25:45
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Not to brag, however, I know the Canadian remote sensing company who provides the remote sensing temperature probe for the NASA's Curiosity rover, as the matter of fact it's the same company who designed and built the Canada arm that astronauts are using in space.

Also, they designed and built some of the earth observation satellites that are hovering at around 800k above us such as the Sat 1, & 2 and Worldview 1 & 2. These satellites are responsible for monitoring the weather, volcanic activities and most of all the human intervention on earth ecology system.



If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)

 

RE: Was it shot in the same studio as the Apollo Moon Landings?, posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:10:30
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 "We Never Went To The Moon"

...but if we did, ya think that's where Hoffa's buried?

 

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