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The 7 strangest things the Curiosity rover beamed back from Mars

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<strong>1. Dust devils </strong><br />
Curiosity captured this amazing footage of dust devils
 whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the Red 
planet. Dust devils form as a result of sunshine warming the ground, 
causing the convective rising of air.<br />
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It’s five years to the day since NASA’s Curiosity <b>Mars rover</b> 
touched down on the surface of Mars – a staggering 248 million 
kilometers (154 million miles) from Earth.

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Curiosity
 has many a space nerd hooked to its updates, providing huge quantities 
of images and data to trawl through, and inspiring endless speculation 
over the Red Planet’s features (and inhabitants).<br />
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Curiosity’s five years roaming our nearest planetary neighbor, RT.com 
takes a look back at some of the strangest images it beamed back to 
Earth.<br />
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<strong>2. Bone-shaped rocks</strong><br />
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In 2014, Curiosity set pulses racing with this <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=6538" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">incredible image</a>
 reminiscent of a thigh bone. NASA was quick to dismiss such ideas, 
saying it likely shows rocks sculpted by wind or water erosion.<br />
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<strong>3. Star destroyer</strong><br />
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This Curiosity image
 of its rocky Martian surroundings prompted UFO enthusiasts to claim it 
as evidence of an alien spacecraft on Mars. Funny how alien craft are 
eerily similar to those thought up by movie writers here on Earth!<br />
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<strong>4. Monster on Mars?</strong><br />
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The rover’s mission is to 
study Mars and determine if it hosts – or ever hosted – life. This photo
 of dusty, jagged rocks looks pretty innocuous at first glance, but some
 eagle-eyed observers claim it clearly shows a ‘space crab’
 lurking in the shadows. One Mars exploration fanpage on Facebook even 
suggested it bore an eerie resemblance to the creepy facehuggers from 
the Alien movies.<br />
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<strong>5. The Coffin</strong><br />
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Aliens don’t bury their dead –
 apparently, they just leave them in coffins on Mars’ surface for all 
eternity. At least that’s what was suggested when this oblong shape was snapped by Curiosity in late<br />
2014.<br />
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<strong>6. Itself</strong><br />
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Curiosity channeled its own narcissistic celebrity with a series of images last year. The Red Planet selfie, looking somewhat like a holiday snap, comprises of 60 images taken while drilling into rock.<br />
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<strong>7. The breasted alien</strong><br />
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A raw image taken by the curiosity rover got the attention of many UFO fans who claimed to have spotted an alien “<em>woman with breasts and long hair</em>” who is “<em>attentively watching</em>” from afar.<br />
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<b>The Star Destroyer </b><br />
Spotted by UFO enthusiast Scott C. Waring this ‘Star Destroyer’, he 
claims is 2.5 to 3 metres in length so, “it probably only held a few 
passengers." Funny how alien craft are eerily similar to those<br />
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Martian women also have breasts apparently. At least that’s according to the good people at UFO Sightings Daily, though they are torn as to whether it is a living, breathing ‘woman’ or a statue</div>
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“They will not tell the truth about MARS.” Exclaims the description on the Facebook group that discovered this gem. We don’t think they will either.</div>
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Curiosity Rover captured this amazing footage of dust devils whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the Red planet.<br />
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The 7 strangest things the Curiosity rover beamed back from Mars

1. Dust devils Curiosity captured this amazing footage of dust devils whirling spectacularly on Mars as summer winds blew across the R...

The Eagle Prime: Incredible 16ft fighting megabot unveiled

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 At first glance, you might mistake this enormous robot for a character from the latest Transformers blockbuster.</div>
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But
 the 16 foot (five metre) tall machine is a robot called Eagle Prime 
that is ready to take on Japan in the Megabots Giant Robot Dual league.</div>
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An
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action ahead of the dual - which will be the world's first giant robot 
battle -  taking place this month.</div>
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At first glance,
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Transformers blockbuster. But the 16 foot (five metre) tall machine is a
 robot called Eagle Prime that is ready to take on Japan in the Megabots
 Giant Robot Dual league</div>
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The robot has been created by San Francisco-based MegaBots, who set up the Giant Robot Dual league in 2015.</div>
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On its <a class="" href="https://www.megabots.com/about" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">website</a>,
 MegaBots said: 'MegaBots uses cutting-edge robotics technology to 
create the giant piloted fighting robots of science fiction, videogames 
and movies.</div>
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'These robots fight in epic-scale arena combat the likes of which the world has never seen before.'</div>
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The Eagle Prime stands at 16 feet (five metres tall), weighs 12 tons, and has 430 horsepower.</div>
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A human operator sits within the 'head' of the humanoid robot, controlling its movements.</div>
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Despite its enormous size, Eagle Prime is faster than you might think.</div>
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In the video, the enormous
 robot can be seen opening giant garage doors, quickly manouvering 
corners, demolishing piles of barrels and even blasting targets with its
 paintball cannon.</div>
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MegaBots said: 'As 
the robots battle, armour panels shear off and litter the field, smoke 
and sparks pour out of the chassis, massive robotic limbs tear off, and 
robots crumple to the ground until only one is left standing.'</div>
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In 2015, MegaBots challenged Japan to a giant robot dual, and a team of experts from the country quickly accepted.</div>
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Japan's robot is called Kurata. </div>
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In 2015, the team revealed an early version of the robot, that included a gun capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">MEET JAPAN'S KURATAS <span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kuratas
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It weighs  9,000 pounds and is controlled by a pilot in the cockpit or remotely using a smartphone or tablet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Overall, the
 robot has around 30 hydraulic joints which the pilot moves using motion
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Currently Kuratas is not capable of walking, but is able to drive at 6mph (10 km/h)</span></div>
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capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute, which fires when the 
pilot smiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Automatic alignment allows you to lock on your enemy target. Kuratas will not allow any targets to escape,' the company writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'With the alignment set appropriately the system will fire BBs when the pilot smiles.'</span></div>
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In May, Chinese robotics 
company GREATMETAL also announced that it too was joining the battle, 
unveiling its massive 'Monkey King' robot to take on the US and Japan.</div>
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The
 quadrupedal, single-seat machine takes on the form of a monkey and 
weighs more than 8,000 pounds (four tonnes) – and a video has suggested 
that the robot is equipped with a rotating head.</div>
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Its creator, Shiqian Sun, said it took about two months to complete to this point, New Atlas reported.</div>
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USS Gerald R. Ford - Landing and Launching of Aircraft

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On July 28, 2017, a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter became the
 first fixed-wing airplane to land on and launch from the Navy’s new 
aircraft carrier USS <em>Gerald R. Ford</em>.<br />
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The Super Hornet belonged to <span class="st">Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23, based at</span> Patuxent River in Maryland. Lt. Cmdr. Jamie Struck, call sign “Coach,” flew the two-seat fighter on the historic sortie.<br />

The launch in particular is significant because, until recently, the Navy wasn’t sure <em>Ford</em>‘s
 catapult would work properly. The July 28 takeoff could help to restore
 some confidence in the system. “I get chills when I think of the 
millions of hours of work it took to engineer, develop and manufacture 
this ship and its revolutionary systems,” Struck <a href="http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=6600">said</a> in a Navy release.<br />
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<em>Ford</em> is the first carrier to feature an electromagnetic catapult instead of a traditional steam catapult. The <span class="st">Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System is more compact, reliable and flexible than the older-style catapult design is.</span><br />
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“The launching system is designed to expand the operational capability of <em>Ford</em>-class
 carriers, providing the Navy with capability for launching all current 
and future carrier air wing platforms — lightweight unmanned to heavy 
strike fighters,” the Navy <a href="http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=6596">explained</a> in a release.<br />

But in 2014, the Navy discovered that EMALS, designed by General 
Atomics, puts too much stress on warplanes in their heaviest 
configurations — including Super Hornets carrying external fuel tanks.<br />
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<img alt="Forget ‘God-Damned Steam,’ the U.S. Navy’s Digital Catapult Actually Works" class="full-post-thumb" src="http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/warisboring.com/images/First-Ford-launch1-970x350.jpg" /><br />
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Pres. Donald Trump famously mocked EMALS. “It sounded bad to me,” Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/05/11/you-have-to-be-albert-einstein-to-figure-it-out-trump-targets-the-navys-new-aircraft-catapult/?utm_term=.e8043c1df9e1">said</a> during a May 2017 speech aboard <em>Ford</em>. “Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.”<br />
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“And I said — and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said
 what system are you going to be — ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I 
said, ‘No you’re not. [We’re] going to God-damned steam,’ the digital 
costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”<br />
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But the Navy stood by EMALS. “We were confident since the day that 
the issue was uncovered that it was solvable,” George Sulich, EMALS 
integrated program team lead, said in a Navy release. “The beauty of the
 system is that issues such as these can be accomplished with software 
updates instead of major hardware changes to machinery.”<br />
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Sure enough, the Navy tweaked EMALS’s software and conducted 71 test 
launches on land with VX-23 Super Hornets carrying 480-gallon fuel tanks
 under their wings. The tests proved the fighter “can launch without 
exceeding stress limits on the aircraft,” the Navy reported on July 24, 
2017.<br />
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Four days later, the Super Hornet launched from <em>Ford</em>. That 
takeoff involved an F/A-18F without wing tanks — in other words, in a 
light configuration. The Navy plans on waiting until 2019 — when <em>Ford</em> will be preparing for her first deployment — to update the ship’s EMALS with the newly-written code allowing heavier launches.<br />
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