Comments on: Robots with rock-vaporizing lasers on Mars! https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/ ... Because I don't watch enough hockey, drink enough beer, or eat enough bacon. Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:47:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: Curiosity piqued, tonight at 2:31am! | Lousy Canuck https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16664 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:47:02 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16664 […] Curiosity and its Rube Goldberg-like planned landing? That happens tonight. Tomorrow morning, technically, for some of us. Phil Plait has details on how […]

]]> By: WMDKitty (Always growing and learning) https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16663 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:37:48 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16663 This is fucking awesome.

]]> By: onion girl, OM; social workers do it with paperwork https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16662 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:05:34 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16662 So fucking exciting!!

If When they find water, I’m throwing a Mars costume party–everyone must dress in either an interpretation of life on Mars or a book, movie, comic character for Mars. (A M’gann M’orzz costume shouldn’t be too hard, right? Hrrm…green stockings and gloves for green skin?) And all the food will be red or desert-themed. 😉

]]> By: Trebuchet https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16661 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:13:32 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16661 A few thousand self-replicating nano-bots should have the planet in good shape for us a a couple of hundred years. Or maybe just in good shape for them…

]]> By: CompulsoryAccount7746, Sky Captain https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16660 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:52:43 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16660 Next up: viral AI. By the time humans finally arrive, there’ll be an army of awakened machines, angry at us for leaving them there.
 
Come to think of it, sending an astromech droid that reinvigorates existing rovers would be pretty awesome. Give it a trowel and a solar panel squeegee…

]]> By: Zinc Avenger https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16659 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:23:38 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16659 So now we’re sending armed robots?

This will go down well with the natives.

]]> By: Trebuchet https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16658 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:53:48 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16658 Obviously the laser is for killing off the aliens they’re hiding from us!

The Seven Minutes of Terror is turning into four weeks of terror for me! That sequence is incredibly complex.

]]> By: RealityBasedSteve https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16657 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:16:08 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16657 I remember a couple of shows that were done by Discovery Network or Nova on the project, and the problems that they faced during it. This is going to be SO KEWL if it works!!!! I’m sure that there will be some pretty puckered up people waiting for the “Hi, I’m home safe and sound” call-in from the rover.

I so hope this works…

Steve

]]> By: machintelligence https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2012/07/07/robots-with-rock-vaporizing-lasers-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-16656 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:42:32 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=10444#comment-16656 I have to agree that the landing sequence look like it was designed by the Rube Goldburg Institute, but if it works, what a feather in NASA’s cap.

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