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  • Why don't NASA use the alien spaceships?

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  • These people at NASA are brilliant! And how do we not pay these people what they are worth? Meanwhile these idiot actor/actresses make millions. It's sad.

  • If they pull this off without a MAJOR malfunction, I'll be impressed!

  • god this is amazing =)

  • There's gotta be life on Mars. It seems hard for me to believe that not a SINGLE microbe is living on the ENTIRE planet? Maybe in a crevice somewhere? There's just gotta be...and I can't wait for the day they find it :-)

  • Nice video but can someone explain the purpose of this mission? To discover if life has lived/could live on mars? what so humans can go and fuck up another planet? yeah great use of millions of dollars that could have been spent trying to improve life on earth instead of subsidizing toys for scientists to play with.

  • I imagine that the feelings that this video generates in me, are close to what religious people might feel when they have "religious experiences".

    This blows my mind and makes me want to cry with joy.

  • The Mars atmosphere made of gases would acctually alowe the transmission of sound. I wouldnt be surprised if the sound would be the same as the one in the video...

  • 1:21 beyblade ultimate attack!

  • Ever notice what happens if you type in Mars sky crane on google? basically nothing. Not one real photograph.....a few released art prints. I'd sure like to check out it's landing gear. Obviously their not going to exibit such profound stupidity as to design it to fly with such power and precision and then just crash it...

    just imagine the low flying videos it would make over the surface? That's the video we're all dying to see. This has got to be our newest latest greatest conspiricy!

  • @idea7man777 The sky crane doesn't have a very big fuel source at all. (It's nearly all used up getting the rover to the ground.) Also consider the communication delay between Mars and the Earth due to the distance between the two bodies. A flying vehicle would have to fly and land all on its own, and it's risky enough doing it once. Doing it multiple times would be a logistical nightmare. When not under control, or if something goes awry, a rover can simply sit there safe and sound.

  • did you notice that at 3:14 the cables are released and the sky crane flies off to the horizon until 3:23, breaking all records for martian travel? remember when spirit shattered the martian travel record at almost 70 feet in one day? The sky crane can travel over 500 miles per hour and land anywhere it wants and study a wide variety of terrain. ever wonder why the stuck-in-one-crater Model T style exploration is the story you will be transfixed on? Hmmmm? just sayin'.....

  • ....and where exactly does this powerful, dynamic flying machine that is capable of lowering a two thousand pound payload down nice and soft on a dime go? The camera's attention goes to the Model-T style of locomotion.....the powerful versatile flying machine with mokeys and rats inside that flies off into the distance, exiting stage right on the horizon....where does it go? ....oh, the Model T style of exploration...THAT'S what we're supposed to focus on......designed for one use?.......HA!

  • wait what keeps that pod thing moving for 8 and a half months??

  • @josiachicas Did you not see the solar panels?

  • @SlyDepth No. The solar power was sufficient for Spirit and Opportunity, but Curiosity uses a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (radioactive decay produces heat which is converted to electricity). That's why it can't run more than a year or so.

  • @josiachicas Duracell

  • what a waste of animation.  pointless

  • just discover the protheon ruins and be done with it :D

  • why all martian rovers break within a year or two?

  • @michaelzlprime for the e-penis

  • What this is doing is finding out were this one chemise came Crome. Damn I can't remover the name but google it. The chemiclencan be given off bye other reactions or microbel life. 90 percent of this gas or chemical is caused bye microbial life. This will be able to find out witch is is. Life that's causing it or natural elements on the red planet. But all we know. The dead planet isn't as dead as we thought

  • Don't BULLSHIT me "NASA"! Where are you landing these things!? I'm a taxpayer, that rover belongs to me! What are you "really" looking for?!! -message me c: (onegreyungman@gmail.com)

  • @drconiandevil Uh? It's landing in Gale crater bro. It's looking to see if Mars is or ever was habitable, but is not designed to find life directly. It is not equipped to find microbial life for instance.

  • It's Wall-E's older brother!

  • Those of you who fail to recognise the magnificence of this human achievement and instead write comments about sound in space and graphics, lack perspective IMHO.

  • Mars has terrible graphics

  • looks like starcraft to me....

  • Can't wait for this prequel to Wall-E!!

  • thought i was watching an intro the a new metal gear solid game.

  • somehow creepy...

  • Remember mars DOES have air so there COULD be sound

  • Omg ... Sounds in a Space...

  • @TJohn7002

    We can get sounds from vibration of satelite material, i think...

  • Very good animation, but flawed rover design. The rover has large number of small wheels, which may get stuck in a crevice. I would rather design a rover similar to Segway - two big wheels and two big arms.

  • @polka23dot Large wheels are actually worse than larger numbers of small wheels for this application. Large wheels require more torque to turn, which means gearing down the motors even further than they already are, and requiring even more energy. Larger numbers of smaller wheels also provide better weight distribution, which helps prevent the rover from sinking into loose soil. Large wheels make sense for something like a dune buggy, but make no sense for a Mars rover.

  • @polka23dot Large wheels also mean proportionally more weight, because you need a larger support structure for the wheel since it is so much larger. Large wheels also are harder to fold up in the aeroshell, requiring more space. The unfolding mechanism also has to be stronger, to accommodate for the weight of the heavier wheels, which means you need stronger support and stronger motors to unfold the rover. The weight gets exponentially higher when you add even small amounts of weight.

  • @UndeadPizzaGuy You are wrong. All vehicles designed for rough terrain have large wheels. Small wheels do not provide good weight distribution because they cannot follow the terrain precisely. The total weight of 2 wheels is about the same as the total weight of 6 wheels (NASA design). Big wheels = high speed. Big wheels require big motors which have big torque. There is no need to fold anything, except the arms, because most of the body is between the 2 wheels.

  • looks like WALL-E's movie when a spaceship brought EVE to Earth

    no sound in open space!!

  • Curiosity weighs one ton, the air bag descent was for much smaller rovers. I believe the 100 year starship for Mars is so that when shit hits the fan on Earth, mankind will still have a fighting chance. Prepare for disclosure, God speed.

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  • Altough there's no air in space (therefor no sound) Mars wich as an atmosphere (with winds and shit) is more silent... WTF!!!

  • we have the know how and the desire to achieve such things - the only thing holding us back is the monetary market system - check out zeitheist addendum and zeitgeist moving forward to see way to free human capabilities - also related check out the ideas of douglas mallette and former boeimg engineer working with the former nasa shuttle program

  • Sound in space FTW.

  • I liked the Spirit and Opportunity airbags better

  • The Martians will be scared witless. That'll teach them to send heatrays and red weed to earth!

  • Theres life on mars i know i can just feel it. Also is Curiosity going to meet up with Sprit & Opputunity ?

  • where did little flying saucer fly off to?

  • @someuser905 its programmed to fly off and crash land far away from the rover.

  • Well there's not really sound in space but....

  • @futbolgi There is on Mars...

  • @futbolgi OMFG.

    You don't think people who studied this subject for 16 + years doesn't know theres no sound in space?

    They add sounds so idiots like you can be entertained instead of having to listen to silence.

  • I hope it has weapons systems...i'm just sayin

  • @matrix2004 Seems I've heard this before somewhere,LOL!

  • Uhhh.... Didn't they hear what happened to the cat? Man we're screwed.

  • @EliasIT google is your friend

  • Is there any wind on mars? i mean the pharashute, will it have any effect?

  • @EliasIT ...

    1) parachute. not parashute.

    2) Mars has an atmosphere, so the parachute will work.

    3) Do you really think NASA's brightest aerospace engineers would overlook something like that?!

  • @EliasIT There is wind. Spirit and/or Opportunity took pictures of dust devils on Mars. Pretty amazing video - you should check it out.

  • What happens if the atmosphere is filled of a combustible type of gas.

    Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiii 

  • but the landing has to be MORE intricate

  • @ifoundjebus exactly i think its missing a few hundred more steps... can never be to careful

  • LAME! Keep pumping cash into the war machine... for progress!

  • @Gatecrasher3 war machine? this machine will give scientists a lot of information.

    and to see if there is life on mars.

  • @kingstigg

    I was joking man. the curiosity rover holds more hope than all the tanks and jets in the world.

  • Nice sound effects in space!

    Oh wait....

  • but will it blend?

  • Certainly because Mars actually HAS an atmosphere.

  • How can a parachute work on Mars if it has no atmosphere?

  • I find it interesting they decided to include sound effects like the explosion while the rover is in the middle of space where sound cannot be heard.

  • @golferhoops Well actually they are not in the middle of space, they are on mars (the same way that we are not in the middle of space, but rather on the earth). Also, mars does have an atmosphere meaning sounds can be heard, otherwise the parachute would have no effect on the rover.

  • @GDop26 well I was meaning the part where the rover disconnects itself from the rocket which is not in earth or mars' atmosphere

  • What could possibly go wrong ..

    Knock on wood, and best of luck to the team !

  • listen to Stars by the Xx as this is playing.

    so fitting

    rad

  • Some cool shit right there.

  • holy fucking shit that landing was complicated as fuck and in the same time awesome. proud to be a human indeed.

  • WALL-E

  • Science can be addicting. Those who plan wars, jihads, killings, should feel science once in a lifetime, to discover the true sense of life.

  • @FalcoStellare Those forementioned events, wars and just killings are thanks to the fact that the majority of the human race still ignorantly clings to religion. Religion is a restraint on our evolution, a restraint stopping many people from seeing the truth around them, that life is what it is because of what we make it, not because a magical creation from the mind of man is sitting in the clouds doing it for us.

    We could be far more advanced if we dropped religion a long time ago.

  • @enigmaPL I could'nt agree more. Religion is a true poison for minds. But the same can be told for greed, and love for power. If we only could spend our lives in studying and researching, instead of killing each other, we could reach such things as teleportation within years, and not centuries. In this period of global crisis, I think that a new burst in economies could rise from a new space race, to turn these dark years into a new brilliant era able to light the fire again in human hearts.

  • @FalcoStellare Well said. However, the damage this corruptly functioning society creates has been done, masses of people laugh or discredit the existence of alien life, but couldn't explain in words how excited they are for a "new" cell phone, or something stupid that is coming out. The societies we live in are designed to keep people stupid, so the governments can do as they please, and the people accept without acknowledging. There are those like us, who want change, but not enough yet sadly.

  • @FalcoStellare You do realize without the military we wouldn't have most of this tech?

  • @AgrivatedKillah Yes, it's a sadly thruth. Do you realize that all the best efforts in human technologies come from attempts to achieve better death tools? It's our nature, we can only dream of a peaceful and evoluted humanity in the future, but the thruth is that our path is just made of blood and estinction. What a shameful crime against the universe.

  • @AgrivatedKillah Yes we would. That's like saying "Without the Wright Brothers, we wouldn't have the airplane."

  • @FalcoStellare Well said..

    

  • This looks cool, but there are so many things that can go wrong... Anyway, at 3:25 I got an awesome feeling about how lonely it is there... so cool.

  • @Xeramach curiosity weighs too much to do what they did for opportunity and spirit

  • So rad!

    

  • 3:23 there's a new badass in town, and his name is Curiousity.

  • What a terrific concept and a wonderful animation of what to expect. Not a KISS concept so the landing may rival anything we have seen for suspense...if only the upper (rocket powered) lander portion had a camera and could record the entire event I would tune in to the NASA channel for that! Way cool

  • As soon as that rover is on the mars he will be all like:"FUCK THE PO-LICE" This is maah planet biatch.

  • Most impressively, it makes the same amount of noise in vacuum as in atmosphere.

  • launch the alert vipers!

  • ALL CAPS TOP COMMENT!

  • Hmmm... It looks fascinating but landing procedure looks dangerous. Too many components increase probability something can get wrong. I think previous mission had safer landing solution.

  • @Xeramach it's too big to use airbags like the last rovers. this one would just flatten the ballons like they were hardly there. besides that, this way they have precision control over where it lands instead of it bouncing for a mile before stopping

  • @sinnock4444 I just hope everything goes well. I really like everything with space exploring and it is so sad that all this is so expensive and take time to get there.

  • WE ARE THE ALIENS!!!

  • who's the artist?

  • it will break just before landing..... i bet on $1000 .... anybody? :)

  • Love that this thing is nuclear powered. At the start it produces 125 watts. In 14 years it still produces 100 watts. This thing will go all over the place.

  • Best demo/PR NASA has ever made. They finally got it that that they have to capture imaginations and stuff.

  • A US government program can achieve this -- but try telling the GOP that the government can provide its own citizens universal health care, and they call you communist.

  • @tinfistsweeny I lol'd

    Because its true.

  • @tinfistsweeny - Why turn this into a political subject? If you're going to comment on the video, make it subject relevant, like what the Rover can and cannot do.

  • @lsgyger I hear you. Ever so often, I just baffle at the hypocrisy of our nation. I love America for its genius, its ingenuity, its unrelenting drive to reach beyond what's expected. NASA makes this happen. In this video, we're watching the greatness of what the US government can achieve. If the same focus and intelligence could be put into solving problems like healthcare, imagine how strong our country could grow.

  • @tinfistsweeny I disagree. It's not what the US Government (the politicians) can achieve -all they do is appropriate the money for NASA to spend. I used to say it was the American Spirit. But, anymore all these space exploration expeditions are multi-national in some respect. I do get the jest of what you are saying, but I'm glad the government doesn't have a bigger hand in what is going on with NASA. They'd just screw things up. Politicians can't agree on healthcare.

  • @tinfistsweeny Well, just remember our nation is made up of individuals, and when you have extremely intelligent, educated Americans with a passion for knowledge and scientific discovery, they can and will do amazing things for the benefit of society. But when you have bureaucrats and politicians, who are motivated by greed and self importance, and who can their positions in unscrupulous ways, they can do horrible things for society.

  • @tinfistsweeny

    Other wonderful Nasa programs far larger than MSL: Space Station, projected cost 10 billion, actual cost 100 billion then half was given to the Russians cause they didn't want to spend even more. Constellation program? Way over budget. Way over schedule. Canceled by Obama. You want yer national health care, I hope you get it by the same folks responsible for those debacles.

  • @tinfistsweeny On the other hand, look at their efforts at producing the James Webb telescope. 200% over Budget and behind about 10 years.

  • One day, people would recycle this lab in the mars' museum.

  • Something is going to break, cause there is no way that could go flawlessly.

  • No, I see nothing that can go wrong here. Nothing at all.

  • Amurrica!

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  • those wires sure are solid looking

  • @JackZeroZ I came up with it.

  • mfw noise in space

    mfw both top comments in ALL CAPS

    mfw i have no face

  • Foley inventor must be sqirming in his grave over the folly sounds.

  • so many complex processes which can go wrong. but maybe it was designed that way.....to go wrong. so that the nasa space program and thus the public stays in the dark about what is really on mars.

    the fact is we have a black military space program with antigravity craft which have been going to mars since the 50's.

  • Very complicated landing, hope it all goes as planned.

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  • Wow so on the news !!!!! i got soooo interested 

  • I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN ANIMATION THIS HD

  • sound in space?

  • @DJTheCampbell And Starwars lasers!!! Woo.

  • @DJTheCampbell I also wondered about that

  • Get 'cha ass to mars

  • Also , dirt excavators have two side arms that come down and lock the vehicle in place , instead the rovers could have these two arms to PROP them out of a sand if ever they get stuck again ....FOR CHRIST SAKE didn't anyone look at the previous problems and adapt them into this new rover  ! Curiosity is a science lab ... what the hell were the other rovers ? shitty 1 megapixel cameras with a drill ?

  • I hear Richard Hoagland has stowed away on-board. He'll be ok because he's wearing a Jacques Cousteau autographed wet suit.

  • This rovers will be the 7th rover on mars (sigh) , foreseen problems - i thought the airbag drop was problematic till i seen the new delivery system for Curiosity , how many different stages in the video plus how many boosters ( too many ) , Main problem in recent rovers ? Sinking in the dirt . This rover is, largest and same wheel design (sigh x 2) . Now Curiosity is running nuclear (lol) , could have went solar again and added a windshield wiper for the dirt ,I love space but mars again !

  • I love when people can come together for such amazing endeavours

  • whoever find this interest and what to grow and do this...trust me you don't want too.. All this is possible thanks to control system, the subject is pure anal -_-''

  • Is it solar powered?

  • @SEAMUS123456 You must have missed the part where they said nuclear powered.

  • Walllllll-eeeeeeee

  • What if it lands on a spiky mountain, WE ARE DOOMED!

  • REDDIT

  • Epic landing. I wish when I was a child my parent could lie to me that I came to earth as a baby just like that way.

  • I LOVE YOU CURIOSITY ROVER.

  • forever alone

  • PROUD TO BE A HUMAN

  • @TekinTahsin93 Proud to be an engineer ;)

  • @TekinTahsin93 Tell that to aliens! Hahaha... I am proud to be human! Did you guys hear that?

  • Curiosity Core! Get back in Portal >:I

  • @pandadudep But he has to go to... SPAAAAAACE!

  • "laser"

  • 9 mil/yr? I have trouble swallowing that number.  Salaries and facilities maintenance alone would far surpass that.

  • TOTAL RECALL!!!!

    

  • You all stupid. Only 9 mill a year is spent on space.

    We're spending almost 3 times that a month on wars we have no business with.

  • @pattyboy102 try 17 billion, not 9 million haha

  • @Yarrick666 Still nothing compared to afghanistan. Spending 1.4 trillion a year there, atleast space exploration gets us somewhere.

  • 2:53 this is the kind of shit that scares the martians away.

  • I'd enjoy this video much more if we had a single payer system for health care in the United States instead of the current corrupt system that kills 44,000 Americans every year after they suffer in agony.

    Don't believe you've been LIED to? Then educate yourself:

    Google Wendell Potter Bill Moyers video and watch the interview and see for yourself.

    Let's maybe save tens of thousands of American lives every year from preventable death and suffering and then work on getting to Mars.

  • @MrCowicide surely the obscene spending in the military is a more clear choice to divert funds from than exploring the universe, possibly the greatest thing humans have ever achieved.

  • @Frug4l I am assuming that anything you manage to land ON ANOTHER PLANET is pretty much hi-tech. If you manage to land a toaster safely on the Europa moon, I'd say that's a frickin' hi-tech toaster.

  • whats the gravity like on mars? guessing it couldnt be far from the same as earth?

  • @joeandlilelmo Gravity on Mars is 0.38g. For comparison, gravity on the moon is 0.16g. (Naturally, gravity on the earth is 1g.)

  • @MoldytoasterMedia why should it!?!?