Lunar robot carries astronauts' home on its back

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http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13590

An ATHLETE robot carrying a mock lunar habitat lowers itself to make the door easy to access (Courtesy of NASA/JPL)

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[nessnesn64gcwii]

looks like some kind of portable toilet

[fassenkugel]

its a real mobile wc XD

[jemezecreze]

*KCCCHHH*"aaah,houston, we have a problem" *KCCHHH* "go ahead rover one" *KCHHH* "we're all outta TP up here"...

[apathetikk]

its doing yoga..

[NoahsPWNS]

Yup.

And a mission to mars 10 years later.

[NoahsPWNS]

Okay.....

[redemptionwins]

I know for a fact your mums vadge is 1/6th of the size of the earth

I bet you practically strolled out of there

[alienatic337]

I know for a fact that gravity on the moon is 1/6 that of earths.

[redemptionwins]

No I think b199er is right, its somewhere between 1/8th - 1/9th I believe

and that "prove it" spam really sucked, prove that he's wrong perhaps?

[jklmuk]

i think its more like a sixth

[shkodrani16]

they have planed a moon landing for 2015