Curiosity lands on Mars

[Dust]

Yay!

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/ ... s-on-mars/
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/ ... a-big-one/

[Tiel]

Obligatory xkcd:
http://www.xkcd.com/1091/

[Dust]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/ ... g-on-mars/

[Dust]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2IVx25qrHg

[Tiel]

http://rebrickable.com/mocs/StephenPakb ... sity-rover
LEGO!

[MindyMcfly]

Lego is so cool!

[Yima]

I know why i am a rocket engineer

[Tiel]

I know why i am a rocket engineer

I chose the wrong profession
Are you happy with your choice? Is it as fun as it sounds?

[Tiel]

Speaking of rockets, here's what you need to shoot every person on the planet into space in this week's What If (by xkcd):
http://what-if.xkcd.com/7/

[Yima]

Well the space elevator is nearly impossible due to the dead load of the rope...
( As we know things which get very long can break due to their own weight... )

The material has to be pretty strong ( which i dont want to mathematically estimate atm ) or the profile has to be increased to reduce tensile strentht...


The nuklear pulse propulsion is like the acceleration of the Enterprise from Impulse to Warp with a delay of the antigravitation of 1 nanosecond...
You end as grease spot in your seat

P.s.:

Too bad u guys don't speak german... I would have something for u, if you are interested in learning more about our universe

[MindyMcfly]

Google translate, then it will make an even more fun read

[Tiel]

I do speak German! At least, reading usually goes fine, but I always fail to choose the right der/die/das word. But I wonder what you can show me about the universe that I don't already know!

[Yima]

It's nothing to read, it's a professor ( Harald Lesch ) from the munich university, who made a show ( Alpha Centauri ) on a local TV programm, giving lessons about the universe and other things

Gogo, start to learn german

@Tiel:

For you: http://www.br.de/fernsehen/br-alpha/sen ... os100.html

[Tiel]

Looks fun, I'll check it out when I have some time again (could be another month).
I always like watching The Universe from the History Channel, but there's barely ever a show about something I don't know yet.
It's pretty American, but you learn a lot and with all the animations you get a decent idea about what stuff actually looks like.

Anyway, keep us updated about your work and stuff

[Dust]

http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731 !