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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bad Chad on February 17, 2021, 05:17:40 PM
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If you're into cool science, it doesn't get much cooler than this.
For the first time ever there will be live coverage of the NASA lander and Rover as it happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
Can the first Guzzi on Mars be far behind? :cool:
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Grandson (Dorcia's side) Max wants to be a rocket scientist. He's about rockets like I used to be about airplanes. NASA had a name the lander contest, and Max said, "Perseverance" and wrote a letter about why.. :smiley:
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Grandson (Dorcia's side) Max wants to be a rocket scientist. He's about rockets like I used to be about airplanes. NASA had a name the lander contest, and Max said, "Perseverance" and wrote a letter about why.. :smiley:
Man, that's very VERY cool!
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WOW! I am getting old as I remember how exciting the pictures from the Ranger missions to the moon were in the mid-sixties. In context though my father was born seven months after the first Wright brother first flight and lived to see the moon landings and Spacelab.
GliderJohn
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My mother would pull us out of school to see the Mercury and Gemini launches. When she couldn't do that, she, being a teacher at my grade school, badgered the principal into letting the whole school watch it in the lunchroom.
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Wait a minute...! Actually eleven. Mars is eleven light-minutes away.
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From Kent:
My mother would pull us out of school to see the Mercury and Gemini launches. When she couldn't do that, she, being a teacher at my grade school, badgered the principal into letting the whole school watch it in the lunchroom.
Attended a rural school of 60 some students out of 8 grades and the principal always allowed us to watch the space shots and the world series as long as we kept up with our assigned work. Still friends with that principal and I ain't young no more. Good times.
GliderJohn
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The only thing we got to watch in school was the showdown with the Soviet Union over the missiles in Cuba. Since we were only a few miles from the Sub Base in Groton Ct I guess we were going to be able to see what happened just before we were vaporized. We were trained to get under our desks if the air raid siren sounded, like that would guarantee survival. :evil: I am excited to see this Mars adventure. I thought I would not live long enough to see this. Wow.
kk
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I'm watching right now
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When I saw the elaborate, Rube-Goldburg landing sequence used on the Curiosity Rover, I wouldn't have given NASA and JPL a plug nickel on it all working. But it did. Here's hoping for two in a row.
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If you're into cool science, it doesn't get much cooler than this.
For the first time ever there will be live coverage of the NASA lander and Rover as it happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ
Can the first Guzzi on Mars be far behind? :cool:
Hey Bad Chad,
Thanks for the YouTube link, I'm watching it now! :thumb:
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Watching it live! I could never do this. Years of work, hundreds of millions of dollars at stake and all you can do is cross your fingers. The stress would kill me!
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Live camera's on Mars, some pretty cool stuff.
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Saw this with 9 minutes to go, very cool. Maybe there is hope.
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Man, that's very VERY cool!
Yes it is. :grin: We had an (unrelated) behind the scenes tour at JPL, and it was fun seeing it today.
(https://static.imgzeit.com/reduced/3bec363f53d4d1f2/IMG_20181227_112050059.jpg)
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Congratulations to all involved, we need some good news for a change :thumb: :thumb:
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Great stuff! !
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I will describe it using what I believe to be the most overused word in the English language.
It was awesome!
One of the guys who used to be in my soaring club when he was doing postdoc work in Houston is now a Martian geologist at JPL. Time for him to get to work.
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I jumped into the live stream at just before 15 minutes to interface. Pretty amassing technology going no there. I was wondering how they were going to avoid running into a ditch with a 11 minute delay in realtime data.
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I think due to the 11 minute delay, that the spacecraft/lander is totally autonomous. The feed given were status reports.
That's why everyone was holding their breath and breaking out into applause.
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They have a rock on board from our state that the computer compares with material from the Mars surface.
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Just fantastic!
You know, as a 70 year-old, I must say I found it thrilling to see all the paper manuals on the desks in the operations room, being used actively - - - - :thumb: :boozing: :grin:
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Thanks for sharing, I love this stuff and hope to live long enough to see humans living and working on the Moon and Mars.
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I watched, when it landed in one piece and they applauded, I felt a bit of pride. We had men on the moon and will have people on Mars...
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Thanks for sharing, I love this stuff and hope to live long enough to see humans living and working on the Moon and Mars.
I bought into 2001 a Space Odyssey a little too much as a kid when I saw it. Over 50 years since the lunar landings. I really thought we'd do more. Now I hope my grandsons will see it.
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I bought into 2001 a Space Odyssey a little too much as a kid when I saw it. Over 50 years since the lunar landings. I really thought we'd do more. Now I hope my grandsons will see it.
I believe it was on the cover of Time Magazine many years ago, a stern photo of Buzz Aldrin with the following caption: "I wanted Men on Mars, you gave me Facebook."
Still, I can't believe this marionette puppet contraption actually works. Look at this photo...boggles the mind!
(https://i.ibb.co/Mhbv401/117093924-rover-drop.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Mhbv401)
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That was fantastic.Most people do not realize the untested tech that went that went into this mission. Science. They said they have photos of the deployed chute coming.
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And to think that millions of people in this country think it's all fake, and that scientists & engineers are stupid. Blows the mind.
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Pioneer Aerospace Corporation who made the parachute is just a couple of miles from my house.
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Maybe this is already political but for me is this all a total waste of money.
Humanity has enough problems which should addressed instead of space trips.
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And to think that millions of people in this country think it's all fake, and that scientists & engineers are stupid. Blows the mind.
Millions? I doubt that. Still,hard to understand.
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Maybe this is already political but for me is this all a total waste of money.
Humanity has enough problems which should addressed instead of space trips.
Unlike the Perseverance, this thread has officially crashed and burned. Time to shut it down!
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Maybe this is already political but for me is this all a total waste of money.
Humanity has enough problems which should addressed instead of space trips.
I would respectfully disagree though I can understand the sentiment. I think that the impact of the scientific gains as a result of the space race are immeasurable. I'm still grateful eggs no longer stick to the pan since Teflon !
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That was fantastic.Most people do not realize the untested tech that went that went into this mission. Science. They said they have photos of the deployed chute coming.
Here it is:
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/143FB/production/_117093928_mro.jpg)
Also some good stuff on Caltech's YouTube channel.
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Release of NASA footage of the landing. https://www.ksl.com/article/50112445/nasa-releases-mars-landing-video-stuff-of-our-dreams (https://www.ksl.com/article/50112445/nasa-releases-mars-landing-video-stuff-of-our-dreams)
Paul B :boozing:
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While the technology developed to make this possible absolutely blows my mind, I can't help but relate to the Big Bang episode where Wolowitz (sp?) gets the Mars Rover stuck while trying to score .......
I wonder how close to the truth that may be? Or may, may be?
Loving the whole concept of re-usable spacecraft and exploration of 'the final frontier'.
G
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Maybe this is already political but for me is this all a total waste of money.
Humanity has enough problems which should addressed instead of space trips.
Not political either. I might not agree with your point about it being a waste but the Mars Landing coupled with an electrical grid duster in Texas at the same time was certainly disconcerting and dissonant.