BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton

Subject: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 10:44 AM

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/other/4391661/NASA-pits-Shatner-against-Wheaton-for-Mars-landing-videos?cid=Newsletter+-+EDN+Fun+Friday

Copy and paste this one for a comparative between Shatner and Wheaton with the same script for the next Mars rover, which will land on the sixth.

Personally, I prefer Wheaton's enunciation better than Shatner's. Easier to understand, y'know.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 11:27 AM

I find Wheaton's over stressing of key words inferior to Shatner's lower key approach. Though I also dare say those are about the worse two to be reading that script. What I really needs is an "Oh My!!" or two from Takai.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 11:32 AM

My poem "Pie In The Sky" - http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/walkaboutsverse-79-of-230.html

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 11:39 AM

My Poem Pi in the Sty.

The there is nothing that will down you bog
like explaining science to a Hog
Like wise any inference
Of diameter to circumference
Though your scope of thought may be very big
You are still just talking to a pig.

Though a robot on Mars is quite a feat
A swine just cares for veg and meat.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 12:55 PM

Approximately 1:30am Eastern time. It'll be a late night, but it will probably be more interesting than all of the Olympic diving! (Who knew there were SO MANY divers in the Olympics?)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 01:37 PM

Too many boring sports...

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: gnu
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 02:06 PM

Agreed, JtS. Shatner is far superior. Wheaton sounds like an excited little kid. No dramatic effect... just overemphasis on top of overemphasis. He's a hack in comparison and literally crushed by Shatner's rendition. Besides, he cheats and he's nasty to Sheldon.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Aug 12 - 02:23 PM

Mein Gott, it's hard to believe that Wesley Crusher is 40 years old!

NASA web site.

I'll be hanging in come landing time. Of course, you can never tell what kind of reception committee will be there to welcome Curiousity.

CLICKY.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: GUEST,EBarnacle
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 01:41 AM

Curiosity has landed and is working!

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 01:59 AM

I watched live on NASA website..... I never saw so many people in blue shirts hugging each other! It was amazing.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 02:02 AM

I just watched it on the NASA web site!

Fa-a-a-a-antastic!! Pretty happy bunch there at mission control. A lot of hugging and back-slapping going on.

(Hey! Maybe we'll get a look at Dejah Thoris!!)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:08 AM

Wahoo!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 05:21 AM

Congratulations to NASA! What a fantastic achievement!! Can't wait to find out what happens next.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: gnu
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 05:42 AM

Can't help but think of the "dominant species" thread and say, "Top THAT, coack-a-roach!" And, as far as dolphins and whales talking over long distances, so what? where's the video?

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:15 PM

Funny, Gnu: tweeted from the Curiosity Rover at 10:47pm (PDT), No photo or it didn't happen? Well lookee here, I'm casting a shadow on the ground in Mars' Gale crater #MSL pic.twitter.com/cj1zFJty. :-D

Don, among the first pictures shared on Facebook last night, one was a great photoshop job (I'm pretty sure!) of one of the new pictures that had the Alien alien in it. Another one (but using an older Mars image) had Marvin the Martian peaking in the frame.

This morning's XKCD comic was good for me and my husband: clicky.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:18 PM

I figure that all they're going to find up there is a blue police box.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:19 PM

Dejah Thoris? Will we see her Barsoom?

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 03:25 PM

I figure that all they're going to find up there is a blue police box.

Nope

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 05:40 PM

There will come soft rains!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 08:01 PM

"Ten thousand times a hundred thousand dusty years ago,
Where now extends the Plain of Gold did once my river flow.
It stroked the stones and spoke in tongues and splashed against my face,
Till ages rolled &the sun shone cold on this unholy place.

So many stars bedeck my skies where once there were but few,
But oh, to know again the clouds that hid them from my view.
My ochred cliffs and rusted sands stand regal and serene,
But oh, my wan and wasted world, I miss your blue and green.

But it's just the weight of waiting, not a deathwatch o'er a friend;
Tomorrow has a starting as does yesterday an end.
For the water of my river and the air that was my wind,
Though bound in rocks and wint'ry wastes, I pray may flow again."

... Jonathon Eberhart


It was a genuine joy to hear Jon sing this in person several times.... and all thru the program, I was 'seeing' him at JPL, watching and asking questions.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 08:12 PM

I should note for those who didn't know of him, a 9 year old Mudcat thread about Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Aug 12 - 10:09 PM

Thanks, Bill.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 12 - 09:38 AM

NASA has just released a low-resolution slide show of the new vehicle's descent and landing. In the pictures you can clearly see that it landed on some sort of feline animal. Yes, they're nearly certain that Curiosity killed the cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Mars landing: Shatner vs Wheaton
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Aug 12 - 10:18 AM

so... those moutains in the background are the Catskills?