NASA unveils the future : R2 - Robonaut 2, humanoid robot for space exploration

[MiamiHeat]

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

NASA due to launch R2 into space, September 2010

http://realitypod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Robonaut-2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20100325142504!Robonaut_2.jpg

NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General Motors under a cooperative agreement to develop a robotic assistant that can work alongside humans, whether they are astronauts in space or workers at GM manufacturing plants on Earth.

The 300-pound R2 consists of a head and a torso with two arms and two hands. R2 will launch on space shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-133 mission planned for September. Once aboard the station, engineers will monitor how the robot operates in weightlessness. Throughout its first decade in orbit, the space station has served as a test bed for human and robotic teamwork for construction, maintenance and science.

[CubanSucks]

That little bastard's gonna kill us all. And he's gonna do it from space

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Good job NASA now try to actually start making rockets so you can put these things in space.

[BlackSwordsMan]

master chief

[mouse]

Only more proof man can not survive traveling through the Van Allen radiation belts.

[MiamiHeat]

Only more proof man can not survive traveling through the Van Allen radiation belts.

The apollo missions went through the van allen belts in about 1 hour total travel time.

That's about the same amount of radiation as an X-Ray.

Only lethal if you stay and linger in the belt.

You are trolling right? I always see you posting this stuff, but I always think you are just poking fun. :) Nobody can be that dumb

[CubanSucks]

master chief

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20100325142504!Robonaut_2.jpg

500 years later

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Games/Images/master-chief-badass.jpg

[MiamiHeat]

http://i.space.com/images/090717-a11-lro-02.jpg

Photo taken in 2009

[EmptyMan]

I've been watching all of the Stephen Hawking shows on Discovery. I wish I was going to be around in 500 years :(

[mouse]

http://i.space.com/images/090717-a11-lro-02.jpg

Photo taken in 2009


http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/fake-moon.jpg

[mouse]

The apollo missions went through the van allen belts in about 1 hour total travel time.

And you read this where?


That's about the same amount of radiation as an X-Ray.

Sure just like they told the troops who where ordered to march into an Atom
Bomb test site don't worry it's like using a blue tooth.



Only lethal if you stay and linger in the belt.

And you read this correct?


You are trolling right? I always see you posting this stuff, but I always think you are just poking fun.


Since when is responding to a topic and staying on topic "trolling" ?




Nobody can be that dumb

You have already proved that to not be true by trying to engage in a debate with me knowing that NASA is one of my strongest subjects.

[MiamiHeat]

don't you think the USSR would have loved to call the USA on their fake bullshit?

The USSR tracked the apollo missions themselves, along with everyone else around the world.

they would have loved to throw some egg on american faces.

Their silence is proof enough

[Buddy Holly]

Mouse is...

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-there-are-crazy-cat-gentlemen-as-well.jpg

[grindmouse]

don't you think the USSR would have loved to call the USA on their fake bullshit?

The USSR tracked the apollo missions themselves, along with everyone else around the world.

they would have loved to throw some egg on american faces.

Their silence is proof enough


Why would the USSR want to expose something they faked themselves?


http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/th_russa-fake.jpg (http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/?action=view&current=russa-fake.flv)



the USSR and USA were in the space race together they helped each other out. they shared rocket scientists that were from the Nazi era.

The USSR wanted to have the first man in space and the first space walk etc... they didn't have the Hollywood production and the Video tape editing machines to pull off a convincing moon landing so they agreed to allow NASA to have at it.

If you knew anything about Space and the way the USSR and the USA are in bed with each other you would not ask such meaningless questions.

[MiamiHeat]

Why would the USSR want to expose something they faked themselves?


http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/th_russa-fake.jpg (http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/?action=view&current=russa-fake.flv)



the USSR and USA were in the space race together they helped each other out. they shared rocket scientists that were from the Nazi era.

The USSR wanted to have the first man in space and the first space walk etc... they didn't have the Hollywood production and the Video tape editing machines to pull off a convincing moon landing so they agreed to allow NASA to have at it.

If you knew anything about Space and the way the USSR and the USA are in bed with each other you would not ask such meaningless questions.


show proof of these claims

oh wait, you can't

[mouse]

show proof of these claims

oh wait, you can't

Is that what you do when your pushed into a corner? You realized you fucked up and now you want "proof"? You read online,in a book, or saw a tv show that convinced you man went to the moon, but yet those same Tv shows,online sites, and books about God are fake? The only time books ,TV shows and online links are good is when you snapper heads want to prove Evolution exists or that the earth is Billions and Billions of years old, But as soon as anyone else uses a book,online site or TV show you dismiss it.

Look I have played the game you guys play and I always end up with facts you can't Myth-buster your way out of. In fact save me all the work I have two boxes of folders to do tonight for CPS before Mothers day, go to this topic
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144487&highlight=nasa

start at the beginning if after you read all 20 pages and you still have questions I will be here for you brah.

[EmptyMan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/buzz-aldrin-punches-moon_n_241664.html


enjoy

Erroneous.

These two gingers did not have anywhere near the alien-tech instrumentality used by the Federal Government to produce such footage. Mouse can back me up on this FACT.

[grindmouse]

photo-bucket is on standby and I have all the necessary links on my browser just give me the word!

[redzero]

Will you fucking morons stop with this "the moon landing was faked" bullshit. It's been 40 years since it has happened. Don't you think somebody would have exposed it by now?

[mouse]

Will you fucking morons stop with this "the moon landing was faked" bullshit. It's been 40 years since it has happened. Don't you think somebody would have exposed it by now?

You add so much to this topic.

[redzero]

You add so much to this topic.

Or I can be like you--I could regurgitate bullshit that has long been proven false just so I can feel special.

The moon landings happened. You don't know shit about space, physics or rocket science.

[TDMVPDPOY]

another waste of money project whats next asking the govt for more money

why not just strap some convict on a rocket and send it to mars or the moon

[DisAsTerBot]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f6_1248441210

[4>0rings]

Why? It was so easy in the 60's, they should be able to send anyone out in space.

[phyzik]

Why? It was so easy in the 60's, they should be able to send anyone out in space.

it IS easy, the problem is that "easy" has nothing to do with costs.

[RandomGuy]

Pg8srEzjGuw

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=57&pictureid=1298

:sleep

Wake me up when you get someone directly involved in the hoax to come forward.

or

When you can adequately explain how NASA was able to fake 800+ pounds of moon rocks well enough to fool tens of thousands of geologists for 40 years.

Until then, the "I don't understand the video/photo footage" schtick got old, the first 20 times it got debunked.

The following assumptions are completely required for the ultimate "moon landings were faked" theory to be true:

1-The photos are all faked.
and

2-The videos are all faked.
and

3-Several people faked the photos and kept that secret.
and

4-Several people faked the videos and kept that a secret.
and

5-The physical evidence, i.e. rock and soil samples are all faked or were retrieved using roboic missions.
and

6-Several people faked the rock and soil samples and kept that a secret.
and

7- It was possible with 1960's era technology to fake hundreds of pounds of rocks and soil to make it appear to have come from the moon or it was possible with 1960's era technology to secretly bring back hundreds of pounds of soil.
and

8- Several people organized and coordinated these seperate processes and they kept secret.
and

9- All of the astronauts are lying and in on the conspriracy.
and

10- All of the telemetry and systems data coming into the consoles at mission control were faked 24 hours a day for the duration of the missions in a manner good enough to deceive hundreds of NASA technicians, or the hundreds of NASA technicians were all in on it.
and

11-All of the thousands of people who have studied the samples brought back and all of the people doing peer-review on the scientific papers were either fooled by the perfectly faked rocks or in on it too.
and

12- All of the radio buffs, amateur astronomers and other non-govermental witnesses to the signals and spacecraft in flight didn't notice any anomolies.
and

13- The Soviet Union actively participated in the hoax, and all the radar/radio technicians, astronomers, etc. that might have been able to figure out that the US was faking the multiple flights were told to be quiet.
and
14- Everybody told to be quiet has kept quiet even on their deathbed or every single one of the confessions has been covered up. (this includes the geologists studying the faked samples too)
and

15- The people assinged to monitor and/or threaten everybody who had first hand knowledge of this also keeps quiet.
and

16- The pictures from subsequent missions to the moon in which clear pictures of the landing sites showing artifacts exactly as NASA claims happened are faked.
and

17- The people that worked in all the subsequent missions were either duped by these faked pictures being snuck into the data streams, or in on the conspiracy too.
and

18-The range-finding reflective dishes on the moon were placed by secret robotic missions.
and
19- These secret 1960's era robots placed these reflectors more accurately than any other robotic missions did at the time.
and

20- All of the people who built and tested the rockets and other equipment were either duped or were in on it too.

The above series of "and" statements would adequately provide all the available evidence.

Therein lies the problem.

If ANY one thing in this long "and" statement is false, the whole thing is logically false.

This actually isn't enough for some of the conspiracy theorists.

They add to this a few things that aren't really quite necessary to fake the moon landings:

Radiation above low earth orbit is so intense it will fry a human being who is exposed to it for even a short time.
and
All the data concerning that radiation is faked, showing that radiation levels are low enough for a human to survive.
and
Everybody who has designed electronics for satellites that uses this faked data didn't notice that their equipment was failing at much higher rates than it should have.

The weakest links of course are the facts that no one has ever come forward to admit they actively took part in the faking/coverup, and that the most tangible evidence, namely the rocks, has been exhaustively studied for 40 years.

Next to those gaping holes, another "I don't understand the video footage" youtube video is just another stone on the fail pile.

[MiamiHeat]

did nobody catch the Star Wars connection in this thread?

[RandomGuy]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20100325142504!Robonaut_2.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3221142709_00672e6a6e.jpg

Not sure about star wars, I think it looks more like a MMPR

[RandomGuy]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20100325142504!Robonaut_2.jpg

500 years later



http://darthmojo.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/cylon03-full.jpg

[RandomGuy]

526 years later:

http://www.jeffpidgeon.com/uploaded_images/Cylon-731911.jpg

[MiamiHeat]

they named the world's first space faring robot.... R2

they shoulda gone with C3 imo

[CuckingFunt]

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6022/cybermenageofsteeldocto.jpg