Are you dying of Curiosity?

by L.A. Times Posted 2012/11/21 16:56:00

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A discovery said to be "one for the history books" has been made by SAM, a suite of science instruments aboard NASA's Curiosity. Just you wait, NASA says.

Not everyone wants to. Curiosity's Facebook page had one early-morning comment from a fan: "WHAT IS IT?!?!" Mars watchers were expressing the same sentiments on Twitter.

Here, workers inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada-Flintridge prepare to install SAM into the rover.

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santa6642 2012/11/21 18:49:47

No

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They found the obamanations birth certificate.
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sclichman 2012/11/30 18:22:48

Yes

I'm a science geek and would love to know, even though a NASA rep announced it had nothing to do with extraterrestrial life. Speculation is now more rampant than ever. Personal hope (though more of a fancy), maybe its something useful enough like gas to be worth putting humans on Mars and science will get a huge boost because of that.

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rickky-tickky-tick-tock 2012/11/26 19:48:14

No

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does Heraldo Rivera have anything to do with this.....remember: Al Capone's safe opening?

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Robert Strobel 2012/11/26 18:34:30

Yes

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Kind of

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Alex♥Adam 2012/11/26 14:13:39

Yes

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:O Yes I'm so curious and kind of excited :D It means I'll get to learn something new about space - which is very exciting. Hope there's great news ahead x)

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Red 2012/11/26 08:25:25

No

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Somehow I'm not curious about it.. Don't tell me, a 3D camera is in it or a bunch of bacterias they're trying to test if it can live in other planets...

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Derbyhat 2012/11/26 06:04:32 (edited)

No

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Not at all curious, though a thought just crossed my mind that this golden box may be programmed with rap music. If so the Martians may come here and wipe out the entire planet!

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sockpuppet 2012/11/26 04:47:28

No

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I don't trust anyone whose budgetary allocations depend on sensational successes.

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MO.gal 2012/11/26 02:51:37

No

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So that's where Romney went!!!!

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bman~AVA 2012/11/26 02:26:32

No

No, not really. I guess we will all find out in time.

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Daniel 2012/11/26 02:19:38

Yes

TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME,,, !!!!

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Fenabarb 2012/11/26 01:57:10

Yes

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good laugh from finding the presidents birth certificate but sadly if it's signs of life there will be those crazies saying its a plot and Obama's behind it.

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yaaarrrggghhh 2012/11/26 01:25:18

No

Probably some organic amino acids. It doesn't really mean much, they are found in nature almost everywhere.

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JakeisHere to yaaarrr... 2012/11/26 05:17:53

Lol, you realize to have "nature" you are implying there is "life" cant have one without the other.

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yaaarrr... to JakeisHere 2012/11/26 05:38:37

No. Rocks are found in nature. And you have left handed amino acids and right handed amino acids.
All life is composed of 100% left-hand amino acids. The right handed acids interfere with left handed acids. So if you come across an abundance of left handed acids with very few right handed acids close by, you have the building blocks of proteins.

But then comes the tricky part. The instructions for assembling the thousands of proteins in a single bacteria is contained in RNA, so RNA would have had to come first, complete with the blueprint to assemble the organism that it was going to inhabit.

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JakeisHere to yaaarrr... 2012/11/26 05:44:56

Nature: The phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations. It implies biology.

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yaaarrr... to JakeisHere 2012/11/26 05:48:16

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The "landscape" implies biology? The physical world collectively. That means pretty much everything.

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mae 2012/11/26 00:45:45

Yes

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YES! Hope it's substantial clips of video verifying undeniable evidence of extra-terrestrials. But it will probably be proof of microscopic ice crystals formed from water vapor...or something like that.

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Ha'ouli to mae 2012/12/04 08:56:49

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you got it

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oceangrl 2012/11/26 00:18:46

Yes

somewhat

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Willski 2012/11/26 00:15:40

No

Curiosity? No. Cancer? that's a very different matter.

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Quazar 2012/11/25 23:43:13

No

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I can wait, but I bet it has Jimmy Hoffa's ashes in it...

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sammanilla 2012/11/25 23:05:10

No

Pretty box, though.

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ellencalvo 2012/11/25 22:18:53

No

That pic looks like a Christmas present. That's what I thought you were talking about at first

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THEmaria 2012/11/25 18:35:51

Yes

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It looks tasty! :-)

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Servant... to THEmaria 2012/11/25 19:08:27

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Maybe there's a s'more in it!

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ServantOfAllah 2012/11/25 17:10:37

Yes

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Yes. I hope it's something good.

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sm237 2012/11/25 16:43:07 (edited)

Yes

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It's Jimmy Hoffa

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L1 2012/11/25 16:23:10

No

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Not a bit....

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Anthony Maw 2012/11/25 15:39:42

Yes

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GOOD RIDDANCE. THEY FINALLY DEPORTED E.T. INSIDE IT. NO ILLEGAL ALIENS!

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Flamingolady 2012/11/25 14:08:02 (edited)

No

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It will be as significant as moon rocks. Just think how they have changed your life.

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nancy 2012/11/25 13:57:52

Yes

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has anyone had misgivings on this site?

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shadow76 2012/11/25 10:03:22

No

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I am dying because we all are. Whatever else, anything silly I do not care about!

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Charles Braley 2012/11/25 05:35:52

No

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As a matter of fact, in my book - it rates down there somwhere around my wondering when man will set foot on Mars!

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shadow76 to Charles... 2012/11/25 10:04:41 (edited)

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Maybe someone already jumped there!

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rick 2012/11/25 04:41:15

Yes

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I'm hoping it's a bone off of anything that would blow creationism right out of the water. Like actually having a UFO land and another species handing us a new blend of alien coffee. Then Starbucks could sell it and not change their name!

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yaaarrr... to rick 2012/11/26 01:27:52

That's what most evolutionists are hoping for. Anything that will disprove the existence of God.

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star 2012/11/25 02:35:15

No

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Life is too short to care.

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We are making Financial His... 2012/11/25 01:53:24

No

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cause i know what it is. its a modified bloombergbox called and air conditioniar creeating water for a hydro electron engine. it breaks hydrogen down and o2 to feed a hydroengine, then the water waist getts devided back down to fuel the hydroengine. its like the same process of the sun, i called simbiotic energy.

ps to be continue.......

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timothy.hill.14 2012/11/25 00:04:22

No

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I'm curious, but not overly excited.

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I break for coffee 2012/11/24 21:23:57

Yes

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Lets say I am interested.

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