hockeyfan87 Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Perhaps i was being too cryptic in what I wrote. My point, while replying to the other poster, was that Education, Health Care and money spent developing human rights, whether in the U.S. or around the world, would be the higher prioritization of funding, and rightly should be, but also that it would have more benefits and spinoffs than anything else, including even funding that went to NASA. The point there being that without funding in those areas, we wouldn't have the capabilities for mission such as the present one to Mars. Ensuring the education, safety and well being of people, ensures that people are free and able to explore, discover, learn, innovate, and invent. The more we do of the former....the more we'll have of the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Opportunity Rover Captures Own Shadow, Giant Mars CraterCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.NASA's Mars rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. The rover used the panoramic camera (Pancam) between about 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. local Mars time (mostly on March 9, 2012) to record images taken through different filters and combined into this mosaic view. i know this is a photo from the mars rover , but it is only a few months old and it is a fantastic image . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 the "red" planet is sooo.... blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Mt. Sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 That sounds all well and good (and I agree that those should come first) but past a certain point funding something like education provides diminishing returns. How do you improve our education system past a certain point? Give all highschool kids Ipads? Give into all the demands of the BCTF? Fund all post-secondary education for students who will get an arts degree that won't help them find a job? I'm just being argumentative to try to illustrate a point that yes those should rightly come first, as you say they serve a basis to allow for space exploration to happen in the first place, but it also has to be a balancing act. As an aside I think our education system can best be served by providing people opportunities to learn about subjects that they are motivated in. Everyone has some interest. Provides kids and young adults to pursue those interests with fewer obstacles and I think we would see across the board improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 Some New Images from Mars: The coloured portion is from Curiosity, and the Black and White part is NASA's computer simulation, to give the coloured picture some context. 3D?? Showing you where all the pieces of hardware are and where some ended up. Here are the isolated pictures of each piece: Curiosity: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674179main_pia16000-full_full.jpg Sky Crane: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674166main_pia15999-full_full.jpg Parachute & Back Shell: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674152main_pia15998-full_full.jpg Heat Shield: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674140main_pia15997-full_full.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
250Integra Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Mobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtpasc Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Some New Images from Mars: The coloured portion is from Curiosity, and the Black and White part is NASA's computer simulation, to give the coloured picture some context. 3D?? Showing you where all the pieces of hardware are and where some ended up. Here are the isolated pictures of each piece: Curiosity: http://www.nasa.gov/...0-full_full.jpg Sky Crane: http://www.nasa.gov/...9-full_full.jpg Parachute & Back Shell: http://www.nasa.gov/...8-full_full.jpg Heat Shield: http://www.nasa.gov/...7-full_full.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 That sky crane left quite the scar on the surface. I'm really curious what it looks like up close now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtpasc Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Maybe in time they'll send Curiosity over to take a look, or have Odyssey look at it closer from overhead. I'm sure it's just a broken fiery wreck of metal anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 Yes but a multi-million dollar broken fiery wreck of metal, ON MARS! I am also really looking forward to the color HD photos when they get released. http://www.wired.com...-rover-cameras/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbbyNucksFan Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 such an exciting time to be living.. this really is the dawn of the space exploration age (the last 50 years or so) where will we be in another 50 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtpasc Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 such an exciting time to be living.. this really is the dawn of the space exploration age (the last 50 years or so) where will we be in another 50 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 such an exciting time to be living.. this really is the dawn of the space exploration age (the last 50 years or so) where will we be in another 50 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 such an exciting time to be living.. this really is the dawn of the space exploration age (the last 50 years or so) where will we be in another 50 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 this is the way we are treating our own planet, like a massive rubbish dump, and unless we change our ways more places on earth will look like this . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buddhas Hand Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Boring. Go away tree hugger. I hope we have warp/light speed on our Ferrari's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom-The-Great Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 See post #284 and #296. Try to look up page or at least back one page, before posting similar videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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