It was probably just the aliens on the "Angry Red Planet" blocking the signal Phil. 
Seriously, thanks for the link and this Mars mission is real interesting. I couldn't tell what the raw images were and found out many were just the shadow of "Curiosity" as can be seen below.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/
Uniblurb3 wrote:
It was probably just the aliens on the "Angry Red Planet" blocking the signal Phil.
Seriously, thanks for the link and this Mars mission is real interesting. I couldn't tell what the raw images were and found out many were just the shadow of "Curiosity" as can be seen below.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/
It must have been that great lifelike "Cinemagic" which gave me the creeps as a kid! LOL.
My favorite was Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon, Earl Holliman, a very serious Leslie Nielsen, a very hot Anne Francis (yowzers
), and Robby the Robot (he coulda put Jack Daniels out of business).
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Computer-Joe wrote:
My favorite was Forbidden Planet with Walter Pidgeon, Earl Holliman, a very serious Leslie Nielsen, a very hot Anne Francis (yowzers
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Same here I always thought the movie was ahead of its time and so really expensive audio gear uses the name Krell.
Agree, the Forbidden Planet was a great movie!
When I was really young, about 6, my aunt was babysitting my older brother (9) and me. Guess she had better things to do so dumped us off by ourselves at the local movie theater. The new movie at the time, "Earth vs The Flying Saucers" was playing and it scared the crap out of me! Lots of talk about flying saucers back then and I had nightmares for about a year on that one! LOL, but not all that funny at the time and I used to sleep walk too! 
Here's another good old one; "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie. I have the BRD of the remake starting Keanu Reeves and it doesn't hold a candle to the original movie.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Trailer by MysticOne
Not sure but I think I may have Forbidden Planet in my VHS tape collection. I'll have to dig in some boxes. Uni....I know I have the original Day the Earth Stood Still. Saw it in the theater on its first run on a guys' night out with my pop....so long ago. Absolutely a classic and Michael Rennie was one of my very favorite actors....one of those voices that we radio/tv guys would kill for.
For SPD:
It is unreal here. Rain moves in from west....and breaks up and disappears before it gets to us. Another line of moderately heavy stuff is in Western Kansas stretched from N to S state lines and is moving slowly eastward. Dare I hope?
I had a wonderful experience very early in the morning on Thursday. Fell asleep in my big chair Wed. night and did not wake up until about 4 AM. So I hooked the Alf up to his leash and we went outside for his final dump. I looked off to the east....absolutely crystal clear sky and still very dark. The beautiful constellation, Orion, had risen and there with it was a brilliant Jupiter and even more brilliant Venus....against that black sky. It was breath taking.....a wonderful site for an astronomy nut like me. Geez it was gorgeous. Wish I was equipped for taking astronomical images with my Canon DSLR.
Crossing fingers and toes for ya Phil.
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell
Now, why would you think that Spd?
Cause I've seen it many times before...but red letters on pink background!
Escapee wrote:
I was reading Uni's post about spaceships on earth and was thinking the same thing. How did the thread get so far off topic. I had to go to the top to see what the thread was about. It was spaceships on Mars. We can bring any topic back to Earth.
And cross vast expanses of space to do it.
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For SKP, I'll try to get this thread back on topic.
Believe most of our Mars posts ended up in the WOTT which is locked. But as SJ pointed out in that thread I'd like to see another country match our technology, especially when it comes to outer space exploration.
I just received this awesome "How to get to Mars" video via email. Had no idea it took so many steps to get there and can't believe the rover still works after rolling across the planet surface. While 6 1/2 mins long it's well worth watching.
