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#723822 - 08/06/12 08:35 AM Mars Rover...
CabinConnection Bigfoot Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/20/04 Posts: 34667 Loc: The Indianhead's Left Nostril....	LANDS! How cool is that!!!
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#723825 - 08/06/12 09:25 AM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: CabinConnection]
mommapup. Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/19/07 Posts: 14923 Loc: SW Michigan	Way kewl!!! 2000 lbs, going from 13,000mph to a safe landing in 7 minutes. Can't wait for the pictures. _________________________ Poverty shouldn't be so comfortable you don't want to work.
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#723841 - 08/06/12 12:42 PM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: mommapup.]
grizzly Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/19/02 Posts: 5331 Loc: penna.	...sadly it's probably the last such accomplishment from our country in the space program. _________________________ ...if i'm gonna get screwed, i'd like a little kiss first. ...the attorney general said they would stop spying on the msm. That's very big of them AND transparent too! ...prosecutor,judge,jury and executioner equals the IRS!
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#723855 - 08/06/12 01:54 PM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: grizzly]
Bob_Fleming Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/28/01 Posts: 27472 Loc: Eagle, CO USA	Many people don't realize the wealth of innovations that resulted from our space program. It wasn't all rocket science!
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#723889 - 08/06/12 09:17 PM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: Bob_Fleming]
JimTheTinkerer " Humming Bulb " Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/24/03 Posts: 20141 Loc: US	Originally Posted By: Bob_Fleming Many people don't realize the wealth of innovations that resulted from our space program. It wasn't all rocket science! True, dat. In this case, the automation and precision is our gain. Military uses, too. Imagine dozens of recon and sniper robots landing behind enemy lines suddenly. Unmanned is the way to go. $2.5 B for that. It would be about 100 times that for manned.
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#723896 - 08/07/12 01:47 AM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: CabinConnection]
CabinConnection Bigfoot Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/20/04 Posts: 34667 Loc: The Indianhead's Left Nostril....	Just look at the PEOPLE in these photos!
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#723901 - 08/07/12 07:01 AM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: CabinConnection]
JMac veteran Registered: 10/14/03 Posts: 1432 Loc: Cary, North Carolina	My son pointed out this morning that the Olympics cost 6x as much as the Mars Rover. We spend more on potato chips than we do on the space program. Mankind is meant to explore. _________________________ "Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever." Lance Armstrong
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#723902 - 08/07/12 07:08 AM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: JMac]
CabinConnection Bigfoot Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/20/04 Posts: 34667 Loc: The Indianhead's Left Nostril....	"...the Olympics cost 6x as much as the Mars Rover." Mars rover - $2.5 billion Olympics - $1.2 billion
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#723904 - 08/07/12 07:19 AM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: CabinConnection]
JMac veteran Registered: 10/14/03 Posts: 1432 Loc: Cary, North Carolina	More like $19B I wasn't referring to the US only cost. NBC spent $1.181B for the rights to broadcast the Olympics. And since we get quite a few Canadians here, A partnership between CTV Inc. and Rogers Communications - later to be formally known as Canada's Olympic Broadcast Consortium paid $153M USD for the broadcast rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics. _________________________ "Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever." Lance Armstrong
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#723908 - 08/07/12 07:50 AM Re: Mars Rover... [Re: CabinConnection]
code_ceis Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/29/09 Posts: 5480 Loc: Seneca Nation	I heard that they spend over $10,000 on Condoms for the Olympic Village? It Was on the morning radio show I was subjected to on an inspection I was on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZf8gysigkE&feature=related Edited by code_ceis (08/07/12 07:52 AM) _________________________ The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -Helen Keller
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