Mars Phoenix Landing - First Photos

[Maddy McCall]

Run time: 06:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osoxX9r0ukQ   Posted on YouTube: May 26, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 26, 2008 By DU Member: Maddy McCall Views on DU: 1238

 
This video was made by my son. He was so excited to be one of the first people to upload the landing and photos to youtube. Please give him good ratings and nice comments. Thanks!

[mac2]

1. Where is it Arizonia or New Mexico?

We need to land on Mars spending millions for this while people are homeless and we are in debt? It is like all the other Bush NASA programs...lies and money for their space weapons to control us.

[no limit]

3. I wouldn't of thought that anyone at DU would be against trying to understand the universe around us

too bad I was wrong.

[mac2]

5. They also know we are in huge debt and have two disasters

which left many homeless and sick. There is time for it later. It is bad management of our treasury. No one thinks the space program has priority except those who profit and those who are comfortable.

[berni_mccoy]

4. "We Set Sail"

"We set sail on this new sea because there is new
knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won,
and they must be won and used for the progress of
all people. For space science, like nuclear science
and all technology, has no conscience of its own.
Whether it will become a force for good or ill
depends on man, and only if the United States
occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help
decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of
peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not
say the we should or will go unprotected against
the hostile misuse of space any more than we go
unprotected against the hostile use of land
or sea, but I do say that space can be explored
and mastered without feeding the fires of war,
without repeating the mistakes that man has made
in extending his writ around this globe of
ours.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national
conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are
hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best
of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful
cooperation many never come again.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?
Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to
the moon in this decade and do the other things,
not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize
and measure the best of our energies and skills,
because that challenge is one that we are willing
to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and
one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Many years ago the great British explorer George
Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked
why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it
is there." Well, space is there, and we're going
to climb it, and the moon and the planets are
there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are
there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask
God's blessing on the most hazardous and
dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has
ever embarked.

This nation has tossed its cap over the wall of
space, and we have no choice but to follow it."

--Pres. John F. Kennedy, Remarks at the dedication of the
Aerospace Medical Health, Center,

[mac2]

6. What about stem cell research is that not science that needs

progress? Oh right the people won't be helped.

[Donkeykick]

8. I agree.

With as many people that are suffering from incurable diseases, you would think that something could be done in accordance to stem cell research. :eyes:

[berni_mccoy]

10. Congress has twice passed the Stem Cell Research bill, vetoed twice by Bush.

They are trying. And we can do both.

[Sam Ervin jret]

11. Who was it when asked once "will this science make our country safer" answered

"No, but it will make it worth saving."

No one asks what good will that movie be or that art work. What did that cost to make? What possible good can come from that piece of poetry? Why should we save the old buildings and historical papers, the ruins in Ancient lands?

Science for the sake of discovery is at the heart of what it is to be human.


Because man may need bread to live but not by bread alone does he live.

Open your minds people.

[mac2]

15. Priority is needed in every man's world.

[iamthebandfanman]

12. i got news for ya,

none of that will matter when we the planet is so f'ed up nobody can live on it.

space exploration may be our only hope.

[Sam Ervin jret]

2. Congrats to all at NASA, the University of Arizona and to all those involved in this next great step

Study your science and dare to dream of a world without limitations.

And thank you to the artist for the video.

[no limit]

7. Is this video running slow for anyone else?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Tell your son "Thanks!"

I'd never have seen this if not for his talent, so I'm very grateful.

All those white people. Makes me think ..............

[Sam Ervin jret]

14. LaBamba, ya got kids? get them in the science clubs and classes and light their imaginations

Then in 20 years when we're landing on our first exosolar planet the complexion of the room will be more representative of the humanity of the world.

There are now more women graduating college than men, BUT still in math and science we need improvement.

[mac2]

16. Money for basic research has been cut in favor of war and

corporate profits since the mid-70s.

[stlsaxman]

13. i like the ceiling lamp with the fan running reflected in the monitor...

took me a few minutes to figure it out...

it looks like a spaceship!