05.27.2008, 10:16 AM | #1 |
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Here is the first ever image of one of our spaceships hanging from a paarchute on it's way down to another planet. The mars orbiter took this image of the Pheonix lander sunday morning as it made the entry and descent onto mars, after a year and a half of travel. It landed safely
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05.27.2008, 10:26 AM | #2 |
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looks just like asteriods video game...
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05.27.2008, 10:56 AM | #3 |
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fucking rules doesn't it?
i read about that yesterday and it was so fucking awesome. |
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05.27.2008, 11:26 AM | #4 |
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QUICK. hide the shit. the earthlings are back.
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Asteroids was the utter inspiration methinks for the glorious special effects asteroid field sequence in Star Wars ESB... deluxe has the shields, but also the annoying geometic thing at the end of each board/screen. then there's blasteroids too and although it's fun, it's not a vector game always liked Amstar's/Centuri Games' Phoenix too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyajS...eature=related I wish someone here other than myself was a MAME enthusiast... atari games also made lunar lander with b&w vector graphics crazy to think about the spacecraft parachuting in to Mars... |
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05.27.2008, 11:28 AM | #6 |
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man, I used to kick ass at lunar lander. more games should have thrust-levers.
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that's not very interesting
space porn!
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I must spread some Mono around before giving it to Cantankerous again.
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05.27.2008, 11:49 AM | #10 |
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i meant the picture not the story btw.
also that red dot was a joke.
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05.27.2008, 11:50 AM | #11 |
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I now, just fuckin around.
whoever is making the crop circles needs to send us some crop-circle alien porn.
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05.28.2008, 10:01 AM | #12 |
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Here is another picture taken by the Mars Orbiter of the Phoenix spacecraft (blue tinged) on the surface of the north pole of mars!!!
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oooooh yeah...
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05.28.2008, 10:23 AM | #14 |
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sorry, im not quite sure whats to be amazed from
arnt we always seeing pictures from mars and of mars and having rolling machines hanging out up there...whats the big deal about this one
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this is fucking awesome-- some smart machine sent by humans looking at a planet millions of miles away. someday we might be living on that planet, or at least mining it, or who the fuck knows what? what i personally find so cool about this is that the lander is specifically looking for signs of life. spiders from mars!! |
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fake.
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three failed missions, two upon mars entry, ten years worth of egineering HELL, thousands u[pon thousands of man hours, do you know what it takes to MAKE one of these things? It takes over a year and half to get to Mars, we can only launch things to mars in a 2 month window every two years. humans need frontiers. we need places to explore, places to give us some sort of purpose or guidance.
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