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08-06-2012, 04:51 AM
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#1 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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| Curiosity rover Lands on mars! Curiosity rover Mars landing
I didn't quote it because there's a lot of updates with some pictures. But in case you missed it you can read all about what happened.
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08-06-2012, 07:43 AM
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#2 | | ESKETIT
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08-06-2012, 08:15 AM
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#3 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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08-06-2012, 10:00 AM
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#4 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Great news!
"one small step for man...one giant leap for mankind"
Hope I quoted that right haha
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08-19-2012, 09:20 PM
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#5 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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02-09-2013, 10:18 AM
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#7 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Its a handle, that rock is the trap door to the underworld |
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02-09-2013, 11:30 AM
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#8 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Beautiful images from Mars, wow
Seems like it could be a piece of the landing gear itself... or a meteor?
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02-09-2013, 11:30 AM
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#9 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Beautiful images from Mars, wow
Seems like it could be a piece of the landing gear itself... or a meteor?
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02-09-2013, 12:10 PM
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#10 | | what manner of phaggotry is this
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mars looks pretty good for rock crawling a jeep
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02-09-2013, 12:59 PM
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#11 | | Ready to be Man handled by RS!
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Originally Posted by StylinRed | I knew it! They never landed on Mars - this was filmed in a studio. Someone left that out by accident. There's no metal on Mars.
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02-09-2013, 01:39 PM
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#12 | | In RS I Trust
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Originally Posted by RRxtar mars looks pretty good for rock crawling a jeep | don't you mean for a jeep to break? |
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02-09-2013, 02:54 PM
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#13 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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wtf is that!?
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02-09-2013, 03:44 PM
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#14 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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02-09-2013, 08:45 PM
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#15 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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02-10-2013, 03:58 AM
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^^ Explain pls?
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02-10-2013, 04:29 AM
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#17 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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People are speculating its a handle to a hatch.
The picture is from the series "Lost" in which one of the mystery's early on was why there is a hatch on the island. The picture depicts the first moment they opened the hatch.
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02-10-2013, 05:06 AM
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#18 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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can't they just send the little rover over to take close ups and poke it or something??!
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02-10-2013, 05:13 AM
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Most likely yes, that's what they will do I'd imagine. However Mars surface does seem a bit difficult to traverse.
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02-10-2013, 10:21 AM
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#20 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by rsx can't they just send the little rover over to take close ups and poke it or something??! | I have a feeling they have already done this. But, they haven't released the pictures/video yet. They probably want to do their own analysis of it.
They should have put that 10000 mega pixel camera on that rover so we could see more detail |
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02-10-2013, 06:34 PM
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#21 | | (ノº _ º)ノ彡┻━┻
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02-10-2013, 06:49 PM
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#22 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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^ the level of detail pictures they get from Mars
my fucking ps3 skips and stutters when streaming from my PC 3 feet away
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02-10-2013, 06:52 PM
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#23 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by EmperorIS ^ the level of detail pictures they get from Mars
my fucking ps3 skips and stutters when streaming from my PC 3 feet away | let's compare my home network to instruments backed by multi-billion dollars of R&D |
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02-10-2013, 07:06 PM
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#24 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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they really need to put more funding into space travel...the world as a whole that is.
Cost of London Olympics: $14.5 Billion
Cost of sending Curiosity to Mars: $2.5 Billion
...Priorities |
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02-11-2013, 08:30 AM
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#25 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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can't wait to see Iron Man 3!
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