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

From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:41:19 -0800
Message-ID: <7C640E28081AEE4B952F008D1E913F17069309C4_at_0461-its-exmb04.us.saic.com>

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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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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Received on Mon 03 Dec 2012 09:41:19 PM PST