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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 08:45 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Perseverance Reply with quote
NASA's latest rover will be attempting a landing in 12 hours:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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PostPosted: 09:36 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
If they can send a robot, they can send a man. Send a goddamn man Laughing

This is cool, I'll be watching that. They are suggesting;

Crazy NASA Bastards wrote:
Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.


Are they intending to do an unmanned take off from Mars as well as landing, or is the return to Earth just the info obtained. I would love to see them take off with no one onboard and the delay they have Laughing

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Gather rock and soil samples that could be returned to Earth by a future NASA mission
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PostPosted: 12:44 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
If they can send a robot, they can send a man. Send a goddamn man Laughing


One word for you: radiation.
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PostPosted: 13:28 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Paddy. wrote:
If they can send a robot, they can send a man. Send a goddamn man Laughing


One word for you: radiation.


Three words for you: will get hungry.

It's the equivalent of trying to ride your motorcycle around the world carrying literally everything you need for the trip; fuel, water, food etc..

I think it's mighty impressive just to get a robot up there. Just think what we (collectively all humans) could achieve if we were less petty with our domestic inter and intra country bickering and pooled our resources and aptitudes.
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PostPosted: 13:53 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Paddy. wrote:
If they can send a robot, they can send a man. Send a goddamn man Laughing


One word for you: radiation.


So let's send someone we don't like...jeez, how would we choose?! Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:25 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paddy. wrote:
If they can send a robot, they can send a man. Send a goddamn man Laughing



With the current technology and funding, they could send a man.

It gets about two orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive if you want that man to turn up at Mars alive.

It gets another one or two orders more difficult and expensive for that man to get home alive.

Progress is happening quickly though, it is possibly that within my lifetime it will be a realistic possibility for me to die on Mars.
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PostPosted: 15:07 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually, we should probably send a black, trans man / woman...er...minority. Although perhaps they'd have to go in a craft built by people of similar minorities...or maybe the whole idea is racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever...oh, let's just scrap the whole thing! Laughing
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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Robby wrote:
Paddy. wrote:
If they can send a robot, they can send a man. Send a goddamn man Laughing



With the current technology and funding, they could send a man.

It gets about two orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive if you want that man to turn up at Mars alive.

It gets another one or two orders more difficult and expensive for that man to get home alive.

Progress is happening quickly though, it is possibly that within my lifetime it will be a realistic possibility for me to die on Mars.


In Musk we trust Smile

As for food. I hear that potatoes grow quite well there.
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PostPosted: 18:10 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Plus there's the blood clots to think about.
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PostPosted: 18:58 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
Actually, we should probably send a black, trans man / woman...er...minority. Although perhaps they'd have to go in a craft built by people of similar minorities...or maybe the whole idea is racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever...oh, let's just scrap the whole thing! Laughing


The politics and racism forum is not this one. Feel free to fuck off over there.
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PostPosted: 21:37 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's down and all, so far, is good.

I hope to live long enough to see some boots on Mars. Possible mid 30's if they get thier fingers out.
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PostPosted: 21:46 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh boots, I misread...

https://imagez.tmz.com/image/65/o/2012/08/01/65018e9066755664a446cd3f5b172621_md.jpg
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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 22:09 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Oh boots, I misread...

https://imagez.tmz.com/image/65/o/2012/08/01/65018e9066755664a446cd3f5b172621_md.jpg


Is that Eccentrica Gallumbits?
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PostPosted: 22:30 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh God, I love Total Recall. I like the look on his face when he is deciding what sort of girl to have on his adventure, he says "Sleazy"

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PostPosted: 22:35 - 18 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
panrider_uk wrote:


In Musk we trust Smile

As for food. I hear that potatoes grow quite well there.


Yes but look at what they have to grow them in...
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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 16:38 - 19 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:
panrider_uk wrote:


In Musk we trust Smile

As for food. I hear that potatoes grow quite well there.


Yes but look at what they have to grow them in...

Just need to take a few politicians along and they'll do nicely (the spuds, not the politicians).
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PostPosted: 21:23 - 22 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is well worth a watch - amazing stuff Smile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56158928
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PostPosted: 00:14 - 23 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:
This is well worth a watch - amazing stuff Smile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56158928


I'm assuming from the commentary (and the issue of Earth-Mars comm lag) that the landing was fully automated. A little more dramatic with the video tacked onto the previous NASA control room chatter Smile
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PostPosted: 09:56 - 23 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Space exploration stuff is some of the coolest wizardry there is. Controlling a random objects entry into a planet, watching it and confirming its landed must be the most intense feeling there is.

Cool shit.
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PostPosted: 10:34 - 23 Feb 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:
Islander wrote:
This is well worth a watch - amazing stuff Smile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56158928


I'm assuming from the commentary (and the issue of Earth-Mars comm lag) that the landing was fully automated. A little more dramatic with the video tacked onto the previous NASA control room chatter Smile


Yes. It has to be due to the 22 minute round trip time for comms.

The Yanks do get over excited though.
A simple "well done chaps" would have been sufficient.
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