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2013-11-08 India-Pakistan
Indian Mars mission leader criticised over temple visit
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Posted by Fred 2013-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 God CAN sort out all your problems. The question is why would He bother? He made Gravity. He made the Laws of Celestial Mechanics. He made Mathematics.
But.... It's up to you to flush your own toilet.
Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2013-11-08 05:53||   2013-11-08 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't hurt. And, people need some sort of religion---otherwise they fall for pseudo-Marxist superstitions.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-08 06:10||   2013-11-08 06:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Needed indeed, and let it be Jewish !

Krauthammer's Law: Everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise.....First, it turns out that John Kerry - Windsurfing, French speaking, Beacon Hill aristocrat had two Jewish grandparents. Then Hillary Clinton - methodical Methodist -unearths a Jewish stepgrandfather in time to run for New York senator. A less jaunty case was that of Madeleine Albright, three of whose Czech grandparents had perished in the Holocaust and who most improbably contended she had no idea they were Jewish. To which we can add the leading French presidential contender (Nicolas Sarkozy), a former supreme allied commander of NATO (Wesley Clark) and Russia's leading anti-Semite (Vladimer Zhirinovsky). One must have a sense of humor about these things. Even Fidel Castro claims he is from a family of Marranos.-em>

Krauthammer, Things That Matter, p67.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-08 06:33||   2013-11-08 06:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course there are always peanuts. IIRC the mars polar lander mission that failed somebody forgot the peanuts.


Lucky legumes

Per the flight director's checklist, about an hour before the scheduled landing (based on the time that the signal from the rover will reach Earth, about 14 minutes delayed), the mission manager will begin one of the few, but important actions, he and his team can take as Curiosity faces its "seven minutes of terror" from entry to touchdown. [Mars Rover's Nail-Biting Landing in Pictures]

He will pop open and start passing around the peanuts.

"The tradition of the peanuts at JPL goes way back to the 1960s and goes all the way back to the very first missions we sent to the moon," MSL flight director David Oh told collectSPACE.com from his mission control room console on Saturday. "We had seven [robotic] attempts to go the moon before we succeeded, and on that seventh one they had passed out peanuts in the control room."

Ranger 7, which in July 1964 became the first U.S. space probe to successfully transmit close images of the moon's surface back to Earth, made the peanuts into a tradition.

"So ever since then, it has been a long standing tradition to hand out peanuts whenever we launch, whenever we do anything important like land on Mars," Oh said. "We can use all the luck we can get."

"We have plenty of peanuts. The mission manager usually assures that we don't run out," said Arthur Amador, MSL's mission manager.

Posted by Snavise Cholurt4299 2013-11-08 06:41||   2013-11-08 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Ranger 7 was just slam awesome, the 20 seconds to impact b/w low rez film freaked me right out. LOOK AT ALL THE DAMN CRATERS!
Posted by Shipman 2013-11-08 13:10||   2013-11-08 13:10|| Front Page Top

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