Mars

Dejan Corovic

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Another interesting point implicit in this NASA's publicity photo is would astronauts be allowed to practice Earth-Mars polygamy? Judging by the age group of astronauts in that photo, most of them, if not all, must already be married. Or put simply, can astronaut be legally married to one person on Earth and another person on Mars?
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
are you suggesting they are going to be space hippies and share family as a commune?

Well, not in this sense.

I'd think they'll have their birth control sorted out. But if you coop people up in a small space long enough there is a good chance they'll have tickets to the F train.
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nivek

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Yeah I know Scott Waring is a nut, this is more amusing than anything else lol...

 

nivek

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nivek

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NASA's new Mars rover successfully launches

As the sun rose over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning, the Perseverance rover - which sat atop an Atlas V rocket - soared into the heavens in spectacular fashion. After a journey spanning 60 million miles, it will touch down on Mars in February of next year.

Intended as a follow-up to the space agency's long-lived Curiosity rover which has been trundling around on Mars since 2012, Perseverance looks very similar to its predecessor. Inside however, it has been equipped with several new additions including a helicopter drone and new scientific instruments designed to search for evidence that Mars was habitable in the distant past.


The rover will also be tasked with collecting samples of soil and leaving them in special caches for a future rover to come and retrieve as part of an ambitious sample-return mission. Once it reaches Mars we can expect to see a plethora of photographs from its array of 23 cameras and even audio samples, as it has also been equipped with microphones.

"We hope to capture some of the sounds of entry, descent and landing; and some of the sounds of driving around, merging that with the video we can take," said Perseverance team member Jim Bell. You can check out the full launch broadcast below (for the actual launch skip to 48:00).


 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Helicopter on Mars. That's worth saying again. We put a freaking helicopter on Mars. Well, I hope so. That's the plan anyway.

Amazing that people are going apeshit in the streets and we doing cool stuff like this at the same time. Very 1968ish.

Antigravity drive is all fine and well but who doesn't love a good countdown to a rocket launch?

 

Dejan Corovic

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To be more specific about the Moon, Moon is loaded with some isotope of Helium, maybe it's called Deuterium.

A cubic centimeter of that isotope can run the power supply of New York for 6 months. So it's clean and green energy at it's best. And in practically unlimited quantities, replenished gratis by Solar wind.
 

pigfarmer

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Part of any voyage of exploration is the journey itself, the science involved and cooperation with other countries in some cases. The benefits are less obvious but they are there.

But the Moon seems like a useful pile of stuff right in our back yard and I agree it does seem a more practical destination, as these things go.
 

Dejan Corovic

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Part of any voyage of exploration is the journey itself, the science involved and cooperation with other countries in some cases. The benefits are less obvious but they are there.

But the Moon seems like a useful pile of stuff right in our back yard and I agree it does seem a more practical destination, as these things go.

If that isotope can be used as rocket fuel, it makes sense to fly to Moon first, fill-up the tanks with isotope, and then continue to Mars, Titan, asteroid belt, etc.
 

nivek

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If that isotope can be used as rocket fuel, it makes sense to fly to Moon first, fill-up the tanks with isotope, and then continue to Mars, Titan, asteroid belt, etc.

Helium is far too valuable to us for medical applications and in extremely short supply to use as a rocket fuel...As it is we are wasting Helium on party balloons...

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Dejan Corovic

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Here is full MIT article. It's He3

Mining the Moon

That's why Mars is waste of time. We should better start mining that He3. It can do 80% coversion to energy in a fusion reaction. One can power both industry and use it as rocket fuel.
 

nivek

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Part of any voyage of exploration is the journey itself, the science involved and cooperation with other countries in some cases. The benefits are less obvious but they are there.

Yes we need to put boots on Mars, I am all for it, as soon as our technology can support humans on Mars I believe we need to be there...I hope to see humans walk on Mars in my lifetime, but damn we are going to be flying a helicopter on Mars soon...That is the coolest thing ever lol...

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nivek

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This Immense Monolith Was Spotted By NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera

This following image attracted a lot of attention as of late as more and more experts have begun questioning whether this picture really does showcase just a random massive rock formation or if there is more to it than just that. The picture was taken by the high-resolution camera that rests on top of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and as you can see it is not the only one in sight.

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The structure is rather massive which is surprising that we haven’t gotten any records of it beforehand as the size alone should warrant a visit from one of the rovers, to say the least. Nobody has even gotten close to explaining it from NASA as they’ve been uncharacteristically quiet about the discovery altogether. Is this because they are afraid of attracting any more attention to it? Are they afraid that people will find out the truth eventually? What could be the reason behind its strange rectangular shape?

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These are the questions that experts are asking themselves on the daily now as everybody is participating in this race to see who can get the right answer the fastest. The monolith in itself is quite large and it’s not the only one in the area either as you can see another monolith in the distance which appears to stick out as a massive pyramid too.

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pigfarmer

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PS. It's a rock. So is the crashed UFO. Unless it's one of those unfortunates that came from Earth just to impact, not so much land
 
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