(ducks to avoid psychically thrown tomatoes)

YES feed them! Rebut them, call them out on their faulty logic or poor research! No, I don’t agree with responding to the slack jawed commentators you see on youtube, but when someone walks into a forum like this with a ho-hum, boo-hoo attitude, do EXACTLY what AnthonyD did. Show them your work, and effort, to know and understand this world around us. We must become just as vocal (I believe even more-so) as those who are opposed, so our voices are heard above the negativity. And if you do not have the time, or can not muster the effort, at least applaud those who do, so they know their voice was heard louder.

Thank you for your time AnthonyD

I guess you don’t spend time actually looking at the raw images feeds. There IS a flag, but what’s the difference if there weren’t? Is the mission somehow flawed if there were no flag?

“An utter miracle of science, technology, and application is sitting on the planet Mars bureaucratically mumbling.”

What? (see my first response)

“It is triumphantly sniffing its own posterior, wobbling back and forth, promising great things in a future that will never arrive.”

Again, what? What can a one ton, nuclear-powered robot promise to people? Nothing. The only thing it can do is what it was built for, SCIENCE! Just because one person doesn’t get the purpose of the machine does NOT make the machine irrelevant.

“NASA is bending a metal hangar back and forth, marveling at how the material stiffens and heats with contunued flexing, until it breaks.”

NASA is doing many things. You should acquaint yourself with the many current, and proposed missions at http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html

Many things that we use in our daily lives are a product of NASA’s work, or work done with NASA. You should start reading the NASA Spinoffs magazine, it goes back over 40 years.

There are many Earth monitoring missions that track hurricanes, CO2 levels, polar ice, and various atmospheric missions. There are many early response missions that aid in saving lives. How is this just bending a wire back and forth, and how would that make bad science anyway? I can think of plenty of reasons to test the heat resistance of wires. I once read a journal article on the physics of crumpled paper. Is that wasted science?

“It will blast music into 7 torr of CO_2, noting how Lady Gaga harmonics contrast with those of hip-hop, reggae, Stomp, and Jalisco mariachi groups bleating shrill expiations of corazon.”

You obviously do not see what a great idea it was to broadcast new music through Curiosity and thus reach a much wider audience than NASA previously had. This audience includes many voting adults, and children who have parents who vote. When people who vote love NASA they tend to vote against people who will cut NASA’s budget. Do you also think broadcasting the feed from the Moon during the Apollo program was a bad idea, or a waste?

“If there is life on Mars, it will come out to greet the new visitor.”

This just shows you do not know what you are talking about. Curiosity is NOT looking for life. It is a geology mission sent to investigate the history of Mars and gather data on the ability for life to have been present. It will NOT find life because it is NOT capable of it, unless this life is a multicellular organism running around (that’s a joke).

*Sorry if I submitted this twice but the mobile browser switched to desktop and I can’t see if it sent*

I guess you don’t spend time actually looking at the raw images feeds. There IS a flag, but what’s the difference if there weren’t? Is the mission somehow flawed if there were no flag?

“An utter miracle of science, technology, and application is sitting on the planet Mars bureaucratically mumbling.”

What? (see my first response)

“It is triumphantly sniffing its own posterior, wobbling back and forth, promising great things in a future that will never arrive.”

Again, what? What can a one ton, nuclear-powered robot promise to people? Nothing. The only thing it can do is what it was built for, SCIENCE! Just because one person doesn’t get the purpose of the machine does NOT make the machine irrelevant.

“NASA is bending a metal hangar back and forth, marveling at how the material stiffens and heats with contunued flexing, until it breaks.”

NASA is doing many things. You should acquaint yourself with the many current, and proposed missions at http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html

Many things that we use in our daily lives are a product of NASA’s work, or work done with NASA. You should start reading the NASA Spinoffs magazine, it goes back over 40 years.

There are many Earth monitoring missions that track hurricanes, CO2 levels, polar ice, and various atmospheric missions. There are many early response missions that aid in saving lives. How is this just bending a wore back and forth, and how would make that bad science anyway? I can think of plenty of reasons to test the heat resistance of wires. I once read a journal article on the physics of crumpled paper. Is that wasted science?

“It will blast music into 7 torr of CO_2, noting how Lady Gaga harmonics contrast with those of hip-hop, reggae, Stomp, and Jalisco mariachi groups bleating shrill expiations of corazon.”

You obviously do not see what a great idea it was to broadcast new music through Curiosity and thus reach a much wider audience than NASA previously had. This audience includes many voting adults, and children who have parents who vote. When people who vote love NASA they tend to vote against people who will cut NASA’s budget. Do you also think broadcasting the feed from the Moon during the Apollo program was a bad idea, or a waste?

“If there is life on Mars, it will come out to greet the new visitor.”

This just shows you do not know what you are talking about. Curiosity is NOT looking for life. It is a geology mission sent to investigate the history of Mars and gather data on the ability for life to have been present. It will NOT find life because it is NOT capable of it, unless this life is a multicellular organism running around (that’s a joke).

*Sorry if I submitted this twice but the mobile browser switched to desktop and I can’t see if it sent*