[meteorite-list] NASA's Curiosity Rover Wants Your Vote

[GREG LINDH]

  Nice post, Rob, and I'll second your vote for Curiosity.  This sould be a "no contest vote".  Curiosity wins, hands down.

  Greg L.


> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:41:19 -0800
> From: ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NASA's Curiosity Rover Wants Your Vote
> 
> Hi Ron,
> 
> I would certainly rank Curiosity well above the likes of Bashar Assad,
> Kim Jong-I-haven't-don't-anything-yet-Un, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Barack
> Obama, Joe Biden, Karl Rove (you've got to be kidding), Michael (Nanny)
> Bloomberg, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Roger Goodell, Pussy Riot,
> Jay-Z, Psy, or the nameless "Undocumented Immigrants".
> 
> But as with the Nobel Peace Prize (which has become an utter joke), I
> fully expect Time to designate some mass-murderer like Un or Assad, or
> some flash-in-the-pan pop celebrity. Curiosity has one of my votes. :-)
> 
> --Rob
> 
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> Baalke
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> Feature
> Dec. 3, 2012
> 
> NASA's Curiosity Rover Wants Your Vote
> 
> TIME magazine has nominated NASA's most technologically advanced rover
> yet as one of its nearly 40 candidates for the "Person of the Year" 
> designation. Describing the sole robotic nominee as the "best car in the
> solar system" that captured the attention of millions when it completed
> a fraught landing sequence with seamless grace, TIME is giving readers a
> chance to cast their vote for the venerable spacecraft.
> 
> Visit the TIME poll (http://ti.me/WEZT8y) to cast your vote before
> 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 12. The people's choice winner will be announced on
> Dec. 14.
> 
> A real-time ranking of all the nominees, including Curiosity, is
> available at
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2128881_21291
> 11_2129112,00.html.
> 
> For more information about Curiosity and other Mars missions, visit: 
> http://www.nasa.gov/mars
> .
> You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: 
> http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and
> http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .
> 
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