Mars Rover landing

[bless 'em all]

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.

How humans might colonise Mars

Good book, amazing trilogy. This is worth a read.

[TimberWolf]

That's the curse of being the only species that knows it will die.

A good proportion of the human species don't believe that either.

[Sysman]

I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".

Heck it had me thinking that.

[Sysman]

Wow!

Lots of possible failure points. Exciting stuff.

Yep. Any one release mechanism that's supposed to let go at the right time but doesn't would cause a failure.