Good Luck Curiosity

[dales]

i know you are, but what am i?

No, Jim you're not an old crank.

A worn-out camshaft perhaps, with worn-out lobes, and out of spec run out.

An old crank, never.

[Grim Reaper]

The cost for constructing and launching Curiosity was $2.5 billion. The TSA has a large enough yearly budget to cover three more Curiosities. There's plenty of fat to be cut from elsewhere in the budget, NASA doesn't need any more cuts.

[Rick]

One would think at $2.5 Billion we would at least get color photos...

[dales]

It was built on the cheap (only $2.5 billion).

You want color?

Pony up another $500 million.

High def?

That'll be another $333 million.

Surround sound?

$2.76 million.

How 'bout 500000 channel martian tv?

Don't ask.

[Joe Guy]

Be patient!

They had to send the color film to the drug store to get developed.

You'll see color pictures in a few days.

[Grim Reaper]

Color photos will come later, the Curiosity has several different cameras. The black&white pictures so far are from the navigation cameras that the crew on Earth uses to tell the rover where to go.

[dales]

Be patient!

They had to send the color film to the drug store to get developed.

You'll see color pictures in a few days.

I guess the clods at NASA never heard of POLAVISION?...............http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polavision

[Grim Reaper]

Here are some images taken with two of the other cameras before they were sent to NASA to be attached to Curiosity.

[Grim Reaper]

And here is an article comparing the size of Curiosity with the previous two rover missions.

[Crackpot]

Dales where do you think all of those billions go to? (I'll give you a hint: US Jobs)

[dales]

For each dollar spent - the return would be less than 15 cents.

[Crackpot]

15 cents? youd get 20 cents in taxes alone.

[dales]

Just having fun, c/p.

I pulled that out of my keester this monrning (along with 3 fossilzed gerbils).

I'm slowly being won over to the positives of the NASA pgm.

Really, it's better that having the EU, China or those blasted ruskies doing it.

[Lord Jim]

I'm slowly being won over to the positives of the NASA pgm.

I'm glad to hear that Dale...

So now you can stop being the

[Rick]

Couldn't help myself...

[loCAtek]

More pics;

[Grim Reaper]

Here is an image from underneath Curiosity as it ejected the heat shield during descent.

And here is the first color image, it looks blurry due to the transparent dust cover still being in place. They'll be lifting the dust cover later this week.

[Gob]

[Sean]

They'll be lifting the dust cover later this week.

Won't that invalidate the warranty?

[loCAtek]