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Send Your Name to Mars

Post by Ercan2121 »

Send your name to Mars and let it
stay there eternally!
Don't you think it's fascinating?
Let's become part of this scientific adventure
with our names and our dreams :)

Submit your name to be included with others on a microchip
on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011
and get your personal certificate
:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/

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Erratum; an Atlas V rocket bearing the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover launched on November 26, 2011. Bon Voyage :)
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Post by Neoplato »

Even if someone (or something) were to find it, wouldn't it be ironic if they asked themselves "Why did they need names?" :shock:
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Post by Ercan2121 »

Let me answer with a short poem;

'I have fallen in love with names
The sharp names that never get fat
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat'

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Latest from Nasa for all interested, teachers or students;
here's the link for Cassini Scientist for a Day (International Edition)
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/sc ... rnational/
The Universe, yours to discover! :)

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Post by Ercan2121 »

Hello all,
The next transit of Venus occurs June 5 or 6, 2012, depending on your location.
Observers in North America see it the evening of June 5.
A transit of Venus occurs when Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth.
This alignment is rare, coming in pairs that are eight years apart but separated
by over a century.
Mark your calendar. Plan your observing location and eye safety. Tell friends.
Download and support the phone app, etc.
http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/
http://www.transitofvenus.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_2012
Thanks

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Post by Andreas »

Will be watching out for this...thanks Ercan.
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Righthand side on the map, above, one can see the sea Marmara and there’s a
tiny blue dot on the sea touching the map’s border.
That’s the nose of Yalova peninsula that now i live.
And the map -i think- looks a little more beautiful on Nasa’s sattelite images,
incontestably.

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It sounds wonderful, Ercan. I'm jealous... :)

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Post by Andreas »

Excellent, good to know Ercan and thanks for the link.
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Post by Nermin »

So amazing to find that some people don't feel at all connected to
what's happening in the Skies. Then, can-we say that they're connected to
our Planet the Earth or Humanity as a whole ? :oops:

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So sorry to find that your beautiful avatars are gone!
May-I ask what's happening?
Are-we against art in this multimedia age? :lol:

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Until the site upgrade next month--hopefully--those avatar-thieving gremlins will likely persist, nermin. :cry:

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Cindy B. wrote:Until the site upgrade next month--hopefully--those avatar-thieving gremlins will likely persist, nermin. :cry:

Cindy
Dear Cindy,
Alternatively, we can protest this and stop posting until our avatars are brought back?
After all, aren't-we 99% :lol: ?

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