While everyone else was concentrating on the Olympics it looks like NASA has finally been able to land something successfully on Mars.
 
HERE is the link.
 
Apparently they're still trying to find intelligent life out there having failed to find it down here I guess.
 
Here's the first couple of photos returned by the new rover:
 

 

If they'd landed it at whatever the British equivalent is on Mars there would be no-one there and they'd have taken the wheels and the photo-electric cells off it and they'd be on e-Bay by now...

Maybe that's what happened to a couple of the other landers?

Well, I don't think anyone could reasonably argue that those tax $$ weren't put to good use

Better than spending a few hundred Billion on war toys....

I think it's about the same amount of tax money as the so-called "First Family" of the U.S. has spent on vacations over the last four years...

Oops!  There's that dang TOS again!

trimph1


Better than spending a few hundred Billion on war toys....

So you're suggesting that rather than killing bad guys with guns you could bore them to death with tales of alleged, sketchy evidence that there may possibly once have been a puddle in a place that no-one will ever go to ?

 I suppose it could work, but more likely that they will have shot you before you finished telling them. ;)

I think it's incredible that NASA have got a Rover all the way to Mars. I had one and I couldn't get it to Devon !

I think it's all faked in a movie studio....

Is that like a Firenza? We had one of those put-puts ..... 


Beeping thing could not run more than a few blocks after awhile before breaking down...