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| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 02:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Screw disney, I'm going to be right across the river from the launch. I'm sure it'll be ok, heck, I'm kinda betting my life on it. Quoting: Astromut I'd love to be there to watch the launch--the following photos in the link are amazing: NASA Prepares to Launch Curiosity If all goes well, tomorrow morning at approximately 10:02 a.m. Eastern time (GMT-5), NASA will launch its newest rover named Curiosity from Florida's Cape Canaveral, headed on a nine-month trip to the planet Mars. The $2.3 billion mission will send a capsule into the Martian sky in August of 2012. [link to www.theatlantic.com] However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
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| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 02:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  Koffee!Wow plutonium...mind boggling!! It's strange that they would name it Curiosity lol! Well I hope the launch goes well as planned...meaning ALL WILL BE SAFE that is  !Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving  !Good Afternoon GodisWaiting4U, Yes, let's hope it has a good trip. It will be about 8 months of travel before it touches the surface of Mars. We did enjoy our Thanksgiving--lots of laughter, food and fun and lots of leftovers! Have a little headache today, probably from eating the chocolate cream pie--but it was good! Did you enjoy your Thanksgiving, too? However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1315794 United States11/25/2011 03:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Screw disney, I'm going to be right across the river from the launch. I'm sure it'll be ok, heck, I'm kinda betting my life on it. Quoting: Astromut Haha was gonna say im not that close but shit im closer than disney. Plus i mean at this point.... we got a plenty of radiation for the whole world going round. lol So im not really concerned even if it does blow up. |
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| ak prole User ID: 1319837 United States11/25/2011 03:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe now we will have 2 'failed' mars rovers in orbit at an unknown rate of decay. 'Go into Syria, and will use our new weapons on you'russia 'ok then we will use our new weapons on you too'nwo New Weapons = Big bomb in space! |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 03:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.ustream.tv] And here is Curiosity's Facebook link: [link to www.facebook.com] Last Edited by KoFFee_ on 11/26/2011 08:31 AM However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6001111 United States11/25/2011 03:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is the live streaming link for tomorrow's launch: Quoting: KoFFee_ [link to www.ustream.tv] And here is Curiosity's Facebook link: [link to www.facebook.com]  5 stars |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is the live streaming link for tomorrow's launch: Quoting: KoFFee_ [link to www.ustream.tv] And here is Curiosity's Facebook link: [link to www.facebook.com] 5 stars  However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| GeekOfTheWeek User ID: 1383040 United States11/25/2011 04:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Screw disney, I'm going to be right across the river from the launch. I'm sure it'll be ok, heck, I'm kinda betting my life on it. Quoting: Astromut I once asked this question to NASA about all the fuss with Cassini. Same batteries that Voyagers and the Gals used. They sent me a nice poster. I love physics. It bonds us eternally, it's what makes our computers work, it's what's in my morning cup of coffee, it's the thing that keeps the universe from vanishing due to lack of belief... |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 04:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Screw disney, I'm going to be right across the river from the launch. I'm sure it'll be ok, heck, I'm kinda betting my life on it. Quoting: Astromut I once asked this question to NASA about all the fuss with Cassini. Same batteries that Voyagers and the Gals used. They sent me a nice poster. Yeah, protesters made a fuss back then, too: "Nearly all the protesters left town: They didn't want to be around if the rocket carrying NASA's Cassini spacecraft blew up and 72 pounds of highly radioactive, highly carcinogenic plutonium rained down." [link to www.deseretnews.com] I suppose wherever there is plutonium, there will probably be a protest. That's cool you got a nice poster out of it. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 06:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Koffee! Wow plutonium...mind boggling!! It's strange that they would name it Curiosity lol! Girl Who Named NASA's Mars Rover Excited to Watch It Blast Off When NASA's next Mars rover launches toward the Red Planet tomorrow (Nov. 26), the girl who gave the huge robot a name will be there to see it off. NASA has brought Clara Ma, a Kansas ninth-grader, to Florida to watch the car-size Curiosity rover's liftoff, which is slated for tomorrow at 10:02 a.m. EST (1502 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here. [link to www.space.com] However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 06:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Will Mars rover Curiosity be the last of its nuclear kind? When the Mars rover Curiosity takes off tomorrow, it'll be packing a plutonium battery to power its myriad scientific instruments, but it could be one of the last to do so if NASA's next budget doesn't get approved. The space agency and the US Department of Energy are swiftly running out of plutonium-238, a radioactive isotope whose heat is converted to electricity to power space missions that can't run off solar panels for one reason or another. [link to www.theregister.co.uk] However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6001111 United States11/25/2011 06:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is the live streaming link for tomorrow's launch: Quoting: KoFFee_ [link to www.ustream.tv] And here is Curiosity's Facebook link: [link to www.facebook.com] 5 stars :prse: :cross38: |
| AnonyMzHoney User ID: 2795031  Canada11/25/2011 06:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am sure that the chances are slim - but didnt they say that about all the other launches that blew up in their face (pun intended) "Some people wait for 2012, to watch the earth shift, but in New Mexico they out there building earthships. We got the language wrong, I got a new twist. The lifting of the veil; thats the true apocolypse." |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 06:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am sure that the chances are slim - but didnt they say that about all the other launches that blew up in their face (pun intended) Quoting: AnonyMzHoney Yes, but I suppose there could come a day where something will go wrong and the protesters will be saying then "We told you so!". However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 07:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The worst occurred in 1964 and involved, it notes, the Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP)-9A plutonium system aboard a satellite that failed to achieve orbit and dropped to earth, disintegrating as it fell. The 2.1 pounds of plutonium fuel dispersed widely over Earth. The late Dr. John Gofman, professor of medical physics at the University of California at Berkeley, long linked this accident to an increase in global lung cancer. [link to www.truth-out.org] However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| AnonyMzHoney User ID: 2795031 Canada11/25/2011 07:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | koFFee Im glad you posted that - ive been googling the wrong words i guess - do you know if those 3 crafts had any one chemical substance in common that other (successful) launches did not have? I watched.... ah bugger i forgot the exact link but something to do with how the ones that failed/exploded contained all that nuclear(plutonium?) and past ones (successful). Like i said i must be using the wrong tag words, or its just not knowledge available for the public(censored) "Some people wait for 2012, to watch the earth shift, but in New Mexico they out there building earthships. We got the language wrong, I got a new twist. The lifting of the veil; thats the true apocolypse." |
| AnonyMzHoney User ID: 2795031 Canada11/25/2011 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I watched.... ah bugger i forgot the exact link but something to do with how the ones that failed/exploded contained all that nuclear(plutonium?) and past ones (successful) did not "Some people wait for 2012, to watch the earth shift, but in New Mexico they out there building earthships. We got the language wrong, I got a new twist. The lifting of the veil; thats the true apocolypse." |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/25/2011 07:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | koFFee Quoting: AnonyMzHoney Im glad you posted that - ive been googling the wrong words i guess - do you know if those 3 crafts had any one chemical substance in common that other (successful) launches did not have? I watched.... ah bugger i forgot the exact link but something to do with how the ones that failed/exploded contained all that nuclear(plutonium?) and past ones (successful). Like i said i must be using the wrong tag words, or its just not knowledge available for the public(censored) More alarming, three of NASA's accidents involved radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) containing plutonium-238, including the following: In 1964, a SNAP-9A satellite carrying two pounds of plutonium was eviscerated in the atmosphere. In 1968, a rocket failed during launch from Vandenberg AFB in California carrying a Nimbus B1 weather satellite and four pounds of plutonium, which crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The plutonium was reportedly recovered without leakage. In 1970, the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission returned to earth with its lunar module, containing a SNAP-27 RTG and eight pounds of plutonium. This module may still be sitting at the bottom of the ocean intact. [link to www.paranoiamagazine.com] However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/26/2011 08:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Watch the Mars Rover Launch Live Here: [link to www.ustream.tv] The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory – the official name for the new rover – is ready for liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/26/2011 08:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
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| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/26/2011 09:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good Morning Coffee.... just thinking of having another cup! Beautiful here in VA. I do not understand at all why some people refuse to see a Beautiful God behind this incredibly awesome creation. Just looking out my window makes me want to praise Him!!! :cross11: Good Morning Once4All, Yes, I was thinking of that yesterday--God's creation versus man's creation. We have the chance today to watch something that man has created go into the vast universe of God's creation and land on Mars--a wondrous planet that God created. I'm amazed at what man can make, but I stand in awe of God's Creation! Taken from Genesis-Chapter 1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. God's Peace be with you... However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/26/2011 09:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 32 minutes and counting [link to www.ustream.tv] Last Edited by KoFFee_ on 11/26/2011 09:21 AM However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6031884 United States11/26/2011 09:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Creation is very beautiful, including how we are so wonderfully made. And everything has such a delicate balance to it. I find it interesting how sin has really upset the balance and is having such dire consequences to this planet. I look forward to the full restoration! May the Lord Jesus keep you in His peace.  |
| KoFFee_ (OP) User ID: 1373078 United States11/26/2011 09:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Curiosity, hopefully, will touchdown inside Gale Crater “Gale Crater is about as big as the Los Angeles basin,” said MSL project scientist John Grotzinger of JPL and Caltech, at the briefing. The mountain in the middle is as high as Mt Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 US states.” [link to www.universetoday.com] However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 "This man really is the Savior of the world!" John 4:42 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:7 |
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