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Reply to: Nasa Curiosity rover - will it land successfully on Mars ?

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Previously on "Nasa Curiosity rover - will it land successfully on Mars ?"

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  • BS1397
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I think he designed that crazy retrorocket thing on strings.

    Have they calculated how big the hole it makes will be?
    Enough to fill the Albert Hall, or 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire.

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  • BS1397
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    Originally posted by adubya View Post
    Bonkers landing strategy involving parachutes deployed at 900mph, jet thrusters lowering the whole caboodle to within 20m of the surface and then the lander lowered down on wires.

    NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing ? The Register

    Will it work ?
    That depends, Do we know if Howard Wolowitz designed it?

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by alluvial View Post
    I wonder if the guys who designed it played lunar lander much as kids.
    They'll be used to crashing a lot if they did

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  • alluvial
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Audacity my friend.
    Actually, I think that you've got the right word there, truly audacious.

    I wonder if the guys who designed it played lunar lander much as kids.

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by alluvial View Post
    Looking forward to this for some strange indefinable reason. Watched the animation of the landing (planned anyway) and looks truly awesome and if they pull it off, then it is truly hats off to the engineers.
    Audacity my friend.

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  • alluvial
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    Looking forward to this for some strange indefinable reason. Watched the animation of the landing (planned anyway) and looks truly awesome and if they pull it off, then it is truly hats off to the engineers.

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  • MarillionFan
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    Absolutely no ******* way. This is way more complicated than a secret warehouse in Area 51

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  • Cliphead
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    If it does it will be a temendous achievement, looking forward to this one.

    As long as they don't confuse metric with imperial they've got a chance

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  • adubya
    started a poll Nasa Curiosity rover - will it land successfully on Mars ?

    Nasa Curiosity rover - will it land successfully on Mars ?

    8
    Not a chance
    37.50%
    3
    Hell yeah
    50.00%
    4
    MMMmmmm, maybe
    0.00%
    0
    It's going down faster than AndyW's mum
    12.50%
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    Bonkers landing strategy involving parachutes deployed at 900mph, jet thrusters lowering the whole caboodle to within 20m of the surface and then the lander lowered down on wires.

    NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing ? The Register

    Will it work ?
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