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Rock on, Rover!]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 4th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 4th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Oh, it is an apple fanboy, no wonder.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
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R/C Cars on Mars. NASA, you rock.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 4th 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/All well and good, but not exactly something we can do anything useful with.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
I don't think it's a waste of money.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
This reminds me of that Christopher Columbus guy. What a loser. Why would anyone ever sail to the edge of the world? He was such a crazy guy with his crazy ideas of exploration and a new world.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/[/jk]]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
We may find dirt, we may find a bacteria with a gene for fighting cancer. It's entirely unpredictable. That's why we look - we don't know.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
Trust me; Future Smi will be spinning in his grave if he ever realizes what kind of "frownable" remark he made.

I'm not even going to try and tell u what space exploration/investigation/sciences have given us in last years.

Let's not invest in space...? Because as we can see in Gaza right now: Religion has all the answers all along and will guide humanity through a peaceful and enlightening future!?]]>Jan 3rd 2009 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/It's not like we are planning for a future manned mission to Mars that would benefit from this wealth of information... ]]>Jan 3rd 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
Wait a second. We go from the POSSIBILITY that there MIGHT be bacteria on Mars to actually finding bacteria AND that bacteria carrying a gene for fighting cancer AND us actually testing the bacteria for the purposes of cancer trials? Wow.

While I fully acknowledge that the space program has made significant contributions to national defense and science I also believe that people are right to question whether money spent on Mars programs represents the highest and best use of our dollars.

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Tang, it's a kick in the glass.

-jp
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Applied Research pays off big dividends in the long run, but you've got to find an application first. Instead of seeing it as a waste of money, look at it as an investment. Besides, the entire budget wouldn't feed the US Military for six months.
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It was all over the news :o]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Waste Allocation Load Lifter Mars-class]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/
They tried, but people kept blanking them when they asked them to hold the camera. Not going there again, that's for sure.]]>Jan 3rd 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 4th 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 4th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 3rd 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/Jan 4th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/03/mars-rovers-mark-off-five-years-of-tireless-servitude-to-humanit/]]>Jan 5th 2009 7:27AM