Curiosity's Countdown to Mars

[idrivea4banger]

I like Ustream's coverages better. You can hear the radio operators talking. Xboxlive seems like a pbs program.

[roliath]

me too and this is what I am getting:

Switching to resolution 990x680 failed, trying lower one
All resolution switches have failed
Screen: could not switch resolution (990x680 fs=0 hz=0)

Tried lowering all the way to 800x600 and get same error...

hmm
dunno
its a java based, so try updating java?

[347Mike]

nope
running here in a window, and works at 1600p.

me too and this is what I am getting:

Switching to resolution 990x680 failed, trying lower one
All resolution switches have failed
Screen: could not switch resolution (990x680 fs=0 hz=0)

Tried lowering all the way to 800x600 and get same error...

[BERNIE MOSFET]

Did you have to change your resolution?

Roliath beat me to it. I'm running it on my TV, so the screen shot was a little big.

[roliath]

Did you have to change your resolution?

nope
running here in a window, and works at 1600p.

[347Mike]

You guys might check here: http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?do...ts/msl/edl.xml

It opens up an interactive simulation of the MSL mission like so:

Did you have to change your resolution?

[Unicorn Jeff]

This mother fucker is traveling at almost 9k mph? Holy fuck.

[idrivea4banger]

So how long did it take them to stage this??

[BERNIE MOSFET]

You guys might check here: http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?do...ts/msl/edl.xml

It opens up an interactive simulation of the MSL mission like so:

[Trip McNeely]

30 seconds to Mars?

[347Mike]

How do they not know te exact time it will land? You would think landing in a crater it would have to be pretty exact and a few minutes in either direction could fuck up the landing?

[idrivea4banger]

Yeah I realized that after I posted. The live stream from NASA starts now. Touchdown won't be until 12:30.

[01vnms4v]

It's starting on Xbox right now

[Strychnine]

45 minutes......

Uhhhh, dude, I think your clock is off.

Aug. 5, 2012 -- Monday morning at 1:31 a.m. EDT, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory 'Curiosity' is expected to touch down on the red planet's surface. After completing a dramatic entry, decent and landing (EDL) -- nicknamed the "7 minutes of terror" -- mission scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, Calif., are expecting to get word from the sophisticated rover. However, it's not currently known exactly what time we'll hear back from Curiosity.

http://news.discovery.com/space/live-mars-rover-curiosity-landing-120802.html

That's 12:31am TX time. Take out 7 min for the landing sequence... Yeah, still not 45 min.

[idrivea4banger]

45 minutes......