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NASA's Perseverance Rover due to land on Mars tonight
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Pretty amazing watching that.0
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The Earth spins at around 1k mph so we are all travelling pretty fast all the time. Even Jason Pearce.9
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Project to Mars vs Silvertown tunnel.
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The truly amazing thing for me is that they can go on a 7 month mission and be on time to within a minute. I can't even get out of the house within 20 minutes of when I really want to.5
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NASA should tender for the next South Eastern Trains contract...Stig said:The truly amazing thing for me is that they can go on a 7 month mission and be on time to within a minute. I can't even get out of the house within 20 minutes of when I really want to.9 -
Aye, the gloss is off the maths a bit for me now but the Apollo stuff just blows my mindStig said:The truly amazing thing for me is that they can go on a 7 month mission and be on time to within a minute. I can't even get out of the house within 20 minutes of when I really want to.0 -
Extraordinary view.Bournesnr said:I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
Aside from all of the technology advances that a project like this produces, with all the associated spin-off benefits, Mars may well be our next port of call when Earth can no longer support humanity.
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As they said "paves the way for human exploration of Mars"Dave Rudd said:
Extraordinary view.Bournesnr said:I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
Aside from all of the technology advances that a project like this produces, with all the associated spin-off benefits, Mars may well be our next port of call when Earth can no longer support humanity.
For me that makes it well worth whatever the cost.0 - Sponsored links:
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So NASA have put a car on Mars and the winner STILL hasn't picked up his range rover...11
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Not a single mask wornDamoNorthStand said:2 -
What's that? It's not what I watched. They all had blue shirts and masks.DamoNorthStand said:1 -
It's a gif from footage of a previous launch/landing.1
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NASA don't have the level of tech requiredRickAddick said:
NASA should tender for the next South Eastern Trains contract...Stig said:The truly amazing thing for me is that they can go on a 7 month mission and be on time to within a minute. I can't even get out of the house within 20 minutes of when I really want to.2 -
Not alone at all, I thought I was the only one. I just don't get it, must cost billions and billions and for what ?????Bournesnr said:I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
even if they did find something, then what?1 -
This is shite, how do you then explain to the wife that your phone doesn’t get a signal in the pub?DaveMehmet said:
I kind of get what you mean but it’s amazing that mankind have landed a car on Mars to investigate whether it once supported life and send pictures back to earth.Bournesnr said:I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.3 -
You are more than likely posted that on a device or machine that is more powerful than what took man to the moon.Elthamaddick said:
Not alone at all, I thought I was the only one. I just don't get it, must cost billions and billions and for what ?????Bournesnr said:I must be alone then in thinking it’s a complete waste of money that could be better spent doing good here on earth.
even if they did find something, then what?
Maybe without man landing on the moon we would not be having this debate online.5 -
'Whats the point' is a bit like the Romans scene from The life of Brian. Ever had a CAT scan ? You can thank space travel for that.
"Space race: Inventions we use every day were created for outer space" https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/39580591
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great article, guess I'm just a bit uneducated in this area (having absolutely zero interest in space et al)1
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For all this fantastic achievement, it is somewhat weird that on the day the US lands on Mars they fail to supply power to Texas!1
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It was the Chinese branch. Although you would think that a nation that spends something like 45% of its funds on weapons, would have its own country in check first. Plenty of party of the states are Fked.Addick Addict said:For all this fantastic achievement, it is somewhat weird that on the day the US lands on Mars they fail to supply power to Texas!2 -
It’s just my favourite NASA celebration gif - there’s some great ones online. The fist pump routine makes it for me.Stig said:
What's that? It's not what I watched. They all had blue shirts and masks.DamoNorthStand said:1 -
I watched the feed live in the fifteen minutes before landing as they followed each stage of the descent; it was very tense and exciting. If we do find evidence that there used to be life on Mars (and we'll probably have to wait a while for the samples to be brought back to Earth for more detailed analysis), then this will prove that life has started at least twice in our own solar system, which means that the odds of life being out there in the rest of our galaxy and our universe are massively increased, to the point where we can be pretty confident that we're not alone. I'd say that's worth the money!
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He's got to learn to box with his feet. One step forward and he'd have had her out cold.DamoNorthStand said:
It’s just my favourite NASA celebration gif - there’s some great ones online. The fist pump routine makes it for me.Stig said:
What's that? It's not what I watched. They all had blue shirts and masks.DamoNorthStand said:0 -
Can't believe you're all falling for this.
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“Interesting video on the little chopper on board.”Dazzler21 said:
Do you mean to say they’ve somehow smuggled Elfie on board at the last minute?1 -
this is so cool - absolutely mindblowing what we can achieve1
https://youtu.be/jJ4IUjjVfng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
