How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars? 218
tcd004 writes "Miles O'Brien narrates this video simulation of NASA's next Mars shot, which promises to out-gun all previous efforts. The Mini Cooper-sized Mars Science Laboratory, which is now named Curiosity, will crawl the Martian surface under steam from a nuclear powerplant — but it's a gentle giant compared to its predecessors. Recent theories have emerged that previous attempts at identifying organic compounds in Martian soil may have actually cooked away any signs of life-giving elements. Curiosity will go to great pains to avoid scorching the Earth ... erm ... Mars."
Genitle Giant? (Score:4, Informative)
As opposed to what, "Semitic Softie"?
"Its" is possessive (Score:1, Informative)
"It's" is a conraction. It means "it is."
Please note that saying
"...but it is a gentile giant compared to it is predecessors."
makes no fucking sense.
Nuclear Powered (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Gentile Giant? (Score:4, Informative)
Skycrane (Score:5, Informative)
Re:English-to-metric conversion? (Score:5, Informative)
You just made the same mistake NASA did once; a Mini-Cooper is smaller than a VW.
Re:RTFA (Score:3, Informative)
Yo. stupid mods. you missed the typo in the story title.
"How Do Yo Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?"
Re:"Its" is possessive (Score:3, Informative)