NASA spacecraft barreling toward a Mars landing

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ish6

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Hello Community,

Yes, it's not trainz news, and if Auran deletes the thread I would NOT be offened by it -- I would understand the action behind the delettion!!

Well, with that said, I have posted this link here for our small Marsz community in case they have not seen the article yet!!! Bulter pointed it out to me, etc .... very interesting .... LOL

from the article:
"The most high-tech Mars spacecraft ever built, the nuclear-powered Curiosity is equipped with more than a dozen cameras, a weather station and tools to drill, taste and sniff the environment in search of the chemical building blocks of life."

NASA spacecraft barreling toward a Mars landing:
http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-spacecraft-barreling-toward-mars-landing-152137445.html

Thanks for taken the time to read and/or glance at this thread, even when it's not trainz-related!!!! :wave:
Have a good night / day !!
Ish
 
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It may just be another step to seeing your visions of a habitable Red Planet come true.
 
Euphod said:
It may just be another step to seeing your visions of a habitable Red Planet come true.
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Yeah, Ed ... our future, future generations may see it, tho -- at leaset, we have trainz to fall back on, and make it come true! LOL :wave:

Ish
 
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And....I like your sig Ish. I hope your base does not see a "Doom 3" scenario in it's future!
 
Actually, Ed, thanks for the "Doom 3" scenario -- I forgot about the game and movie, and I just took a peak on "youtube", and it gave me some more ideas for Marsz' concepts, etc ... there are moments that I fine myself scratching my head searching here and there for ideas, etc! LOL ... About a dooms day scenario ... well, if Auran listens to my suggestion and make the weather furious and mericless, that could actually happen to the bases on Marsz -- In fact, I do hope new weathr pattern are introduct in the next version of trainz, like sandstorms, etc ... I can create abandon and wrecked structures like those found in the Ghosts of Mars, etc lol ...

Anyhow, take care now. Ed! :wave:
Ish
 
Well let's hope it beats the odds. The history of successful Mars landings is not good. I well remember the Sun's parody of NASA's announcement of the Apollo 11 landing when the British Beagle satellite failed to make it - The Beagle has stranded.
 
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Well let's hope it beats the odds. The history of successful Mars landings is not good. I well remember the Sun's parody of NASA's announcement of the Apollo 11 landing when the British Beagle satellite failed to make it - The Beagle has stranded.
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Hello,

Thanks for the info --- I did not know about the British Satelite failing!

Ish
 
We need Arraial to make a drivable Mars lander in Trainz :cool: And a drivable Space Shuttle, or Gemini rocket, or Command Module/LEM Module, to get us there.

And a drivable Saturn V rocket ... Please Please Please.

http://s525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/cascaderailroad/?action=view&current=SaturnVGoodbye.mp4

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cascaderailroad said:
We need Arraial to make a drivable Mars lander in Trainz :cool: And a drivable Space Shuttle, or Command Module LEM Module, to get us there.

And a drivable Saturn V rocket ... Please Please Please
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Paulo's Saturne V - Nasa takes off by pressing the b key I believe!

Ish
 
Latest issue of Astronomy magazine has a nice article about it (and the other Mars Rovers). This is quite a complex machine so should get some seriously good data from it.

Apologies if this is slightly off topic but for an unusual consist I made the special 4-bogey NASA clamshell cars that transported the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle. They are interactive for the clamshell which is also on the DLS. A search for NASA should turn them up (as 2004 items).

Ben
 
I find astronomy absolutely facinating, and space exploration even more facinating !
As we can not even make this planet that we live on hospitable ... Colonizing Mars is a rather novile idea ... but it is not really feasable, for anything besides robots.
Many things make colonizing Mars near imposible: Food, Water, Oxygen, Fuel, Weightlessness and muscle attrophy, not to mention the time it takes to get there, and (hopefully)back home again ... are just a few of the thousands of problems.
Yes ... it is technologicly possible to do it ... but one should not hold ones breath, waiting for it to happen in any of our lifetimes.
We were promised a Moon jump-off base by the year 2008 ... It ain't happening.
I would like it to be possible ... and to see it accomplished, though.
Still I dream of this science fiction to become reallity ... and in Trainz, one can do it today ... I am looking forward to Ish and Arraial to keep up this 5 year mission, to boldly go where no man has gone before ... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, NCC 1701 ! (James T Kirk must have gotten all the girls in his days on Star Trek) :hehe: ! Look at him now ... all fat and bloated (like me, and John Travolta) and selling Priceline.com :cool:
 
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:cool: Everyone should know that the core of Mars is a huge glacier. There is a reactor that is far underground...it must be started to melt the glacier to release oxygen (from the H-2O or water in the glacier).

The problem is that Mars is ruled by a man named Mr. Cohagen...he will not allow the Martian reactor to be started because he wishes to control the population to mine minerals present on the planet.

Mars is inhabited by human-mutants, sent there to work the mines...one is a woman with three....(removed due to N3V Code of Conduct)...

But there is no fear, we have sent a man called Mr. Quaid, a big, strong man that is learning American English as a second language...I know he will defeat Mr. Cohagen!

Passenger ground transport uses a car called a JohnnyCab!, complete with a robot driver!

This is not a dream!
 
cascaderailroad said:
I find astronomy absolutely facinating, and space exploration even more facinating !
As we can not even make this planet that we live on hospitable ... Colonizing Mars is a rather novile idea ... but it is not really feasable, for anything besides robots.
Many things make colonizing Mars near imposible: Food, Water, Oxygen, Fuel, Weightlessness and muscle attrophy, not to mention the time it takes to get there, and (hopefully)back home again ... are just a few of the thousands of problems.
Yes ... it is technologicly possible to do it ... but one should not hold ones breath, waiting for it to happen in any of our lifetimes.
We were promised a Moon jump-off base by the year 2008 ... It ain't happening.
I would like it to be possible ... and to see it accomplished, though.
Still I dream of this science fiction to become reallity ... and in Trainz, one can do it today ... I am looking forward to Ish and Arraial to keep up this 5 year mission, to boldly go where no man has gone before ... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, NCC 1701 ! (James T Kirk must have gotten all the girls in his days on Star Trek) :hehe: ! Look at him now ... all fat and bloated (like me, and John Travolta) and selling Priceline.com :cool:
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That's a great post there, Cas!
I tend to agree!

The atmosphere alone would kill us in a heartbeat, so space suits must be warmed at all times!

But, what really keep us away from Mars in the bottom line -- MONEY!

Nasa's Curiosity costed 2.5 billion, and it's as big as a car, so imagine how much it would cost to built a ship suitable to travel the year-and-half journey, the paylord: fuel and food, and whatnot, etc .... the equipment to land and take off, etc ... all this would be in the trillion, and since Politicans are always looking out for themslves and their curent job statues, so not in our lifetime we will see this happen, etc ... Only our grand-grand-grand children could see it!

Take care
Ish
 
ish6 said:
... Only our grand-grand-grand children could see it!

Take care
Ish
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Too bad that generation will probably be born already in debt to the government for several hundred thousand dollars. I fear there will never be enough GDP of all the nations of all the world to fund that kind of mission.
 
I think far too often we get rather carried away with the hype on space. It may be because we have been brought up with sci-fi films and space comics but to be frank I think that the Mars thing is a total and scandalous waste of money that is very needed elsewhere.

People will huff and puff on the wonderful advantages of one day going to Mars which is a pointless thing unless you want to walk about a desert encumbered in a space suit and a field for boredom. Okay we got space blankets and pens that wrote upside down after the moon but in real terms this fanaticism about space is something else.

And again, if it was discovered that maybe there could possibly have been some form of prehistoric life in tiny, microscopic size so what? It does nothing to help the needy and unfortunate millions back home and even in the US itself. Oh, sure there will be waxing lyrically on it but once you get beyond all the theorising and propaganda it is a negative exercise. People cannot walk about and live on Mars like here and it would also be as boring as Hell seeing red everywhere.

No doubt sci-fi lovers will be offended at me challenging the steryotype science attitude to space but wanting to go to a dead planet and do what? As a Glaswegian I have even seen more sense in visiting our old rival, Edinburgh than the vast amounts of money to keep scientists happy and those who follow their every word as a wow factor. I have enjoyed the occasionally space film but it is not based on any reasonable sense of reality and I gave up reading Superman and that stuff when I was a youngster. Boy, oh boy, what a wonderfully expensive dose of escapism. Give me reality every time!
 
Of course NASA claims that the "spinoffs" from space exploration now number almost 1800, including many that have impacted everything from health to video games and computers, far more value than a pen and a blanket, but we must consider the source.

I agree in some respects that space exploration is a pointless exercise, but will add a bit of context by further saying that if such exploration is the goal of a private enterprise, than who am I to suggest how they should spend their money? I have no idea how much of the funding for this particular mission was from private or public sources, but I feel safe in assuming that at least part of the endeavour came from public funds. I feel this money could have better been spent elsewhere (like building a military installation in some other nation...:hehe:), or paying off some debt!;)
 
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Lost In Space...

:cool: One of the motivations for space explorations is that for the most part, scientists are agnostic or actually atheist...they have been really keen on proving there is life on other planets, the source of the creation of the universe, etc.

There was another method of this investigation back when President Reagan announced the "Super Collider" in Texas, however that project was deemed too costly and since most of the scientific community that supported the research was from other countries, we kicked that one offshore...the result is the discovery of the Higgs Boson, for example. Another is the transfer of and creation of new matter.

The original "Space Race" was competition with the Soviet Union back in the '60's, begun when President Kennedy announced that he wished "to see the US put the first man on the moon, before the end of the decade."

President Kennedy was assassinated and that served to encourage the event even greater. We did. As you know, tons of assets were created to facilitate the mission and after perusal by the Department of Defense, those inventions became part of our lives, as noted previously.

Believe it or not, we have diverted from searching for the answer of where the universe came from and simply wish to colonize a hopefully local planet, overcome the lack of ability to cover long distances quickly searching for whatever we may discover...or plunder, as in minerals, etc.

I lived in Florida from 1965 until 1992, during the Apollo Mission and relate well to the enthusiasm of interstellar observation and interspace travel.

We have had a war on poverty in the US-America since 1965 and still the poverty rate is 14%...all the money we have invested in helping the impoverished has not lowered the rate even 1%.

The question becomes, "what is left to be discovered that can be fully realized by exploring the microcosms/macrocosms of our universe?"
 
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