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# smartasshat :     blanddiva11 :      guillee :
- URL: https://www.trxl.co/4900304288/
- Published: 2011-04-24T21:31:34.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-09T13:13:07.000Z
- Author: Evan Troxel
- Tags: #sqs, #no-title, #Import-blog1, #evantroxel-me-com

[smartasshat](http://smartasshat.tumblr.com/post/4888616967):

> [blanddiva11](http://blanddiva11.tumblr.com/post/4888409795):

> [guillee](http://blog.gesteves.com/post/4883860996):

> Animation of how NASA will land the Curiosity rover of the [Mars Science Laboratory](http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/) on Mars in 2012, complete with a new “sky crane” technology for descent. (Via [Ariel Waldman](http://arielwaldman.tumblr.com/post/4882454239).)

> **This is soooo cool.**

> It IS amazing. But I see so many things that could go wrong.

> Of course, the engineers who designed it all are much smarter than I am (HELLO! Rocket scientists!), so I shouldn’t worry about its viability.

> I’ll just cross my fingers when the time comes and wait for the awesome science to flow from the mission.

Holy crap. I think they need to do a run-through here on earth first so I can watch.