Best. Image. Ever.
 

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2...st-image-ever/

Best. Image. Ever.

Posted at 1:10 pm in NASA, Pretty pictures, Science

Emily has what is simply The Coolest Picture Ever. It is that simple.

http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/babl...enix_chute.jpg

That is exactly what you think it is: Phoenix descending to the Martian surface underneath its parachute. This incredible shot was taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. You can easily see the ‘chute, the lander (still in its shell) and even the tether lines!

Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world, as seen by another manmade object already circling that world, both of them acting robotically, and both of them hundreds of million of kilometers away.

Never, ever forget: we did this. This is what we can do.

Yet I still lose reception on my cell phone on major highways.

:LOL:ROFL

Unbelievable.

I can't put into words what that image makes me feel. If there is anything that is truly ineffable, this feeling is it.

Wow.

Dear NASA:

Now doesn't that feel better than just blowing sh*t up?

FAX

Better than CP!

Yes! We can look at really amazing images of other people's accomplishments!

You're right. Life is good.

And this is the best that you c - that the-the government, the *U.S. government* can come up with? I mean, you-you're NASA for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You-you're the guys that think this shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a backup plan, that these eight boy scouts right here, that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me?

??????
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/writers/d...1_stram_si.jpg

I haven't yet seen an effective rebuttal against NY58's argument.

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/t...rmageddon1.jpg

we've been too busy wanking our yankees to that picture he posted....

Wouldn't that be a rebreastal?

Indeed, that has been a rarer occurrence than exploring Mars.

Now THERE'S a hell of a comment -

We've been to Mars more times than the Chiefs have been to the Super Bowl.

Shit.