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."
Re:"Its" is possessive (Score:5, Insightful)
The law of correcting typos: attemping to correct a previous poster's typo creates a typo from the current poster.
Re:A better question (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Show of hands... (Score:4, Insightful)
For not knowing, you'd have to turn in your Trekkie card.
For having to ask, that'll be your Google license.
Re:RTFA (Score:5, Insightful)
"How Do Yo Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars?"
Clearly, it's a pun on the word "Yo-yo".
Since the plan is that it does down, but not back up again, it's just a "yo".
Re:Appropriate narrator (Score:1, Insightful)
I thought I was the only one who clicked on it for that reason. Very disappointed :(