If curiosity touches down safely tonight

[OldSausage]

I will play some mandolin.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

[Astro]

Golly David, I didn't know you were up there.

Play loud.

[Bernie Daniel]

Yes play REAL hard as the atmospheric pressure is less than 0.005 psi (about 1/3000 th) that of earth and its mostly carbon dioxide with a little methane thrown in for color!

I be listening through my telescope tonight for you.

[Astro]

Yikes, hope he brought a cloths pin for a nose pin.

[Ed Goist]

e-mando, of course...

[brunello97]

Here's Ziggy with mando content, courtesy my AusTex GourdBuds:



Mick

[OldSausage]

I was thinking more along these lines

[journeybear]

Golly David, I didn't know you were up there.

More out there, perhaps ...

They will probably find, among other things, that much as Bernie Taupin predicted long ago, Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids; in fact, it's cold as hell.

[Astro]

And there's no one there to raise them , if you did.

[OldSausage]

Landed safely in Gale Crater. Don't forget, it really is there to look for signs of life on Mars. We should all be proud.

Playing my mandolin now.

[shortymack]

I just watched it live on a JPL feed. I grew up down the street from there and now am just about 80 miles away. The 'little city' must be proud of their achievement. So...... Is there life on Mars? Who knows...Does it really matter? Not really.....Is it a remarkable technological accomplishment to land a car sized nuclear robot safely? Absolutely. Very cool indeed.

Now if I only had a nice mando to play along with you.

[OldSausage]

Well, it matters to me.

[Steve Ostrander]

I grew up down the street from there and now am just about 80 miles away.

You grew up on Mars?

[Randi Gormley]

I'm proud to say that my dad was from Mars, although he was from the one in Pennsylvania. I've always been fascinated by space and space travel (my kids always said I was from another planet anyway) so I've been following this with interest. We got out the Arnold version of "Total Recall" and I couldn't help wondering if the natives played mandolin back in their bunkers somewhere ...

[billkilpatrick]

[OldSausage]

It's a nice morning on Mars (actually I think this was probably sunset).

[journeybear]

Sure it matters. One of the all-time top questions is, "Is there also life out there, somewhere?" Mars is a natural second step (the moon being the first). There are other places in the universe which are much more hospitable to life as we know it, but they are much farther away. And remember, there is always the possibility that life could exist in other forms, far different from that to which we are accustomed. (Possibly ones which have a smoother approah to grammar.) Also, the Mars mission includes looking for signs of life from the past, not just the present. That may well be more likely.

[Dale Ludewig]

What if they find traces of a banjo up/out there?

[shortymack]

THEN it will matter.


...and yea Im from Mars, the Mojave Desert. That pic looks like it was taken from my back yard.

[Erk]

What if they find traces of a banjo up/out there?

That would mean there is life, but no intelligence.

[Pete Summers]

That would mean there is life, but no intelligence.

You guys.

[Willie]

For years I thought I was going to be an astronaught....My school teacher kept telling me and my mother that I was "taking up space"