Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.
Not as simple as you might think.
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Not as simple as you might think.
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Curiosity is the dog's bollards. Nice video.
Nuclear powered and packs a pulsed 10 megawatt laser that can make short work of any life it finds, as long as it is really small and slow.
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a thrilling video, you just don't realise how much of an engineering effort was involved just on the landing.Comment
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It should be a piece of piss for them if they dont make basic mistakes of mixing metric and imperial measurement for the landing data.
The Sky Crane is a great idea though, stuff of sc fi in fact. Landing's in August isnt it?I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!
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Cool.
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Fantastic!Confusion is a natural state of beingComment
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As the Sun get’s hotter and gets to the end of it’s shelf life, humans will have to colonise Mars to get an extra few million years. It is better we start now."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".Originally posted by sbakoola View Post
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That's the curse of being the only species that knows it will die.Originally posted by Paddy View PostComment
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