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    Mars Rover landing

    Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror.

    Not as simple as you might think.



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    Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

    #2
    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.



    Due the land in August this year I believe

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      #3
      a thrilling video, you just don't realise how much of an engineering effort was involved just on the landing.

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        #4
        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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          #5
          Cool.




          Tone

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            #6
            Fantastic!
            Confusion is a natural state of being

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              #7
              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 Orwell

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                #8
                Originally posted by sbakoola View Post
                a thrilling video, you just don't realise how much of an engineering effort was involved just on the landing.
                I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Paddy View Post
                  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.
                  That's the curse of being the only species that knows it will die.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
                    I agree, hopefully stuff like that will make some kids think "Wow! I want to be an engineer!".
                    Wow!

                    Lots of possible failure points. Exciting stuff.
                    What happens in General, stays in General.
                    You know what they say about assumptions!

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