Mars Woo!
This could be another Peter Recommends but I already did that today. He’s very excited about it, and the video is pretty cool (I mean, it wouldn’t be out of place as an ACME made Road Runner gadget gag):
Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror
August 6th, 2012 at 3:47 am
It surprised me and worked. I thought it was too crazy to work.
August 6th, 2012 at 10:38 am
Seriously. Lileks had a good Tweet (https://twitter.com/lileks/status/232224606801502208) about how the final stage of the decent being on a winged unicorn pegasus. Ferrealz.
August 7th, 2012 at 1:44 am
Curiosity has its own twitter account, @MarsCuriosity. Don’t know whether it would be Lileks quality though. There’s a rock. Another rock! There’s another. Different. Rock!!! And so on.
August 9th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Sarcastic Roover sez:
The first rule of MARTIAN ROVER CLUB is you can talk about it as much as you want because we’re all alone and never going home.
“God of War” my left wheel! More like the “God of S**tty Dust and Rocks and My Despair!” LOL JK LOVE U NASA! please come get me!
I sent back 5MB of data to Earth today… it was an MP3 of “Bust a Move” by Young MC. LOL THEY HATE THAT SONG!
IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM, but on Mars everyone can hear you sing along to your old STYX albums! DOMO ARIGATO.
Thanks for only giving me a single robotic arm! Now I can only sing one verse of the “HOKEY-POKEY”! AND IT’S THE WORST VERSE!
Mars has two moons… so I’m starting to regret being bitten by that werewolf at JPL
Left a girl back at home. Never told her how I felt. Probably too late now but… I love you Roomba. Goodbye
“Gale Crater”… sounds like the least popular girl in a Glee episode. Whatever.
Really wish I could get that heat shield back! It had a +6 Enhancement Bonus & -10% Arcane Spell Failure. HOPE MARS IS ORC FREE!
Borrowed via Bring the Heat, Bring the Stupid.