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Mooey Cow posted:Yeah they did, and the results are just in! I fully support mankind's endeavour to send increasingly powerful probes to both.
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I thought I’d see cool live video of a real landing, but instead it showed a simulation that was like 4fps. I could have done better on my computer op. Hopefully they’ll have the real video up on their site later.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:43
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I can’t believe Biden is wasting money on landing a robot (always evil) on Mars when Texas is being engulfed by a glacier right now. And people are dying!
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been 49 years since man has been on the moon and now they want mars. you dont even play with the moon anymore why would we get you a mars?
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I remember when waiting 5 minutes to download a 256-colour GIF of Erika Eleniak's boobs over 56K was the technology of the future. Now we have a car-sized vehicle sitting on Mars, ready to beam back an insane amount of data and HD images (and sound!) from another planet millions of miles away. Look at this absolute unit:  And it has a helicopter! I grew up thinking Airwolf was the coolest poo poo ever but now, in my lifetime, we're ready to fly a motherfucking helicopter across the surface of an alien world. All of this was achieved using a fraction of a fraction of our world's wealth and resources. Imagine what we could achieve if we devoted the other 99.99% towards advancing humanity.
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Feb 19, 2021 00:10
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yeah very cool stuff. mars, technology, etc on the other hand 
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I remember when waiting 5 minutes to download a 256-colour GIF of Erika Eleniak's boobs over 56K was the technology of the future. If capitalism has taught us anything the extra hundred billion would have resulted in a sleeker paint job and maybe a spoiler
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Feb 19, 2021 00:20
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im a dum dum why is this a big deal? didnt they land 2 rovers there a buncha years ago?
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Feb 19, 2021 00:22
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Well we turned on the microphone and all that we could hear was Aerosmiths “Done with Mirrors” album
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Kly posted:im a dum dum why is this a big deal? didnt they land 2 rovers there a buncha years ago?  mars sucks. i used to think mars was awesome but those were misdirected ideas related to wanting to have sex with sharon stone and/or be arnold schwarzenegger
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Feb 19, 2021 00:56
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Remember in 2004 when President Bush said we were going to terraform Mars?
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Kly posted:im a dum dum why is this a big deal? didnt they land 2 rovers there a buncha years ago? Here is some reading for you: https://www.planetary.org/worlds/mars
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Pawn 17 posted:How did they get an image right away when there is an 11 minute communication delay? Yes, and? All the data they were receiving was being automatically sent back by the rover. They didn't have to command it to do any of that. It was programmed to automatically take and send back those two pictures. By the time we received the rover's signal that it was entering the Martian atmosphere it was already sitting on the ground and sending back pictures (as well as whatever other post-landing tasks it was programmed to do).
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Feb 19, 2021 02:22
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hahahaha RANDOM!!! pranked!!!!!!!!!!!
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wilderthanmild posted:I think they actually smashed it into the planet because it ended up on a way lower trajectory than planned because of conversion fuckups. The US actually has a pretty good record for landing things on Mars. It's other countries, particularly Russia, that have this weird inability to consistently do this thing we have a pretty reasonable success rate at doing. So did the UAE last week! https://www.space.com/uae-hope-mars-spacecraft-first-close-photo
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I bet the people that developed and made this thing are pretty smart. Has anyone ever met people that work on stuff like this? Do they act like normal people or do they just speak in mathematical equations only?
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Doc Block posted:Yes, and? All the data they were receiving was being automatically sent back by the rover. They didn't have to command it to do any of that. It was programmed to automatically take and send back those two pictures. Are you saying they were celebrating a landing that happened 11 minutes in the past as if were happening live? This is just the kind of deception I'd expect from NASA!
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Vakal posted:I bet the people that developed and made this thing are pretty smart. Imagine the gooniest person ever and make them somehow more emotionally dumber.
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Feb 19, 2021 03:40
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Im not going to belittle their education or accomplishments but I am fairly certain at least half of the people in that room have written Boone and Raul fallout new vegas fan fiction.
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I think it's loving wild. Glad it seems to have gone smoothly. Robots are loving cool. Exploring other planets is cool. Science is great. NASA is good. Advancing knowledge of literally anything is essential. It's all good and anyone seriously thinking otherwise is a genetic dead end for the species that should gently caress off. Do we know yet if they actually managed to land in the crater they were targeting?
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Ok Mr Goebbels  enough about genetic dead ends for our glorious conquest of spess
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owls or something posted:Do we know yet if they actually managed to land in the crater they were targeting? Yes, it’s a big crater and they’ve gotten extremely accurate these days Plus this is the first rover that has the ability to steer on its way down, avoid hazards, etc
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Feb 19, 2021 05:16
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Can it vape?
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Send it to Pluto, a True Planet and a Dear Friend
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Songbearer posted:Send it to Pluto, a True Planet and a Dear Friend lol scientists proved pluto isn't real you dumbass
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Feb 19, 2021 05:55
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What happened is that scientists sent a huge bomb and blew up Pluto so they wouldn't have to admit it's a planet
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Vakal posted:I bet the people that developed and made this thing are pretty smart. i know ppl who worked on parts of this!! one at jpl and one who worked on the drill arm!!
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YeahTubaMike posted:Why do you assume that WE wouldn't be hosed when ALIENS discover US? Because humans were created to be the player characters of the universal simulation and our goal is to beat the game by exterminating all other life.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:Already happened. There was a race of intelligent cat people living there. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o They released the mindboggling videos from the landing. Don't miss. High framerate stuff unlike anything we've ever seen from Mars.
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:lol scientists proved pluto isn't real you dumbass You believe scientists and you call songbearer the dumbass? Scientists will say anything to keep getting their precious socialist government funding.
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frumpykvetchbot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o oh hell yeah this is the poo poo ive been waiting for, thank you
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lmao were they all holding little packets of peanuts in that team photo? e: yes, yes they were. google reveals the peanut as the perseverance teams luckiest nut. so now we know how the skycrane works.  all hail the luck nut, bringer of great fortune flubber nuts fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:You believe scientists and you call songbearer the dumbass? Scientists will say anything to keep getting their precious socialist government funding. Big surprise the government hates Pluto, the true American planet 
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Feb 22, 2021 21:34
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Too many scientists yakking on about the starry-eyed wonderment of it all and not enough cool videos of the rover driving around on Mars in that clip imo.
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This is dope and I'm a moron so can I just say it's loving lame that every time they wrap up some kind of crazy feat now they need to have speak some scripted think tank line like "ready to begin seeking the sands of past life!!" or something It just cheapens the moment and feels like everyone's trying to ape off of the one small step for man line, I dunno Just let it marinate, god drat
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Why Mars and why not Venus or some poo poo
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I'm just saying when is NASA gonna start going the hipster route for planetary misadventures?
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i liked the video. honestly the rover seems a lot like stuff done w/ a smaller budget than maybe was possible. but good photos will be nice
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