Phoenix lander on Mars - live

[Greg]

This is pretty cool if you're into science >>
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[DeeEss57]

This is pretty cool if you're into science >>
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

It's also on the Science Channel on cable. I'm watching it now! This is so cool!



Dawn

[DeeEss57]

Houston, the Phoenix has landed! JPL and NASA are ecstatic!

Find info on the mission here: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/mission.php

And find a Mars weather widget here: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ It's about halfway down the page on the right hand side.


Dawn

[Hunter Morrow]

17 billion dollars a year for this?
I never got the reason for NASA existing.

[DeeEss57]

17 billion dollars a year for this?
I never got the reason for NASA existing.

Well, they're just trying to find some place for us to move to when we've utterly destroyed the Earth.



Dawn

[Greg]

basic science - it kind of helped to develop the computer you're using (among other things)

[Hunter Morrow]

Wait, NASA invented chew?
Completely worth it, then.

[Demi]

basic science - it kind of helped to develop the computer you're using (among other things)

Well, I'm more for exploring our own world before we go elsewhere. I doubt we're going to find the meaning of life or much of anything worthwhile on Mars.

[Kansas Viking]

Well, I'm more for exploring our own world before we go elsewhere.

Well, rocket fuel is cheaper than gasoline now, so it makes sense to go to Mars.

[BigMo]

Literally ecstatic! I was such a space nut growing up, wanting to watch all the Apollo and Gemini launches, even the failed ones. I became so enthused by the possibilities that I had my parents buy me a whole new set of Encyclopedia Britannica so I could read up on everything to do with science, space exploration and the future.

I can't exactly put my finger on the date of when that enthusiasm left me as a child, but I always hoped for the best for our country and our planet as time moved on. I've been a little disappointed that I now find my self in my middle ages and we still haven't colonized the moon, mined the asteroid belts, or made a manned mission to Mars! I had assumed so many things growing up like space travel being a normal day to day thing, not realizing that baby steps would take so much longer than anticipated!

Maybe we went to the moon too soon, but I'm happy to see and hear that Mars is still being probed and considered for exploration. I firmly believe that mans future does lie in space and the galaxies beyond, I only regret that I will never live long enough to have had the chance to be a part of it when it does finally occur!!!