The 7 minutes of Martian terror

[u crank]

I like it when they all jump up and cheer.

[mapuc]

I missed it....

Markus

[Rockstar]

You didn't miss too much, just a lot of tension, suspense and anxiety followed by sudden relief, cheering and congratulations. I think one of things which makes this mission different from others is they said they'll eventually have video and audio of the descent. They even sent a drone they can fly too.



Hope they captured some good video while that puppy was speeding along 5.3 kilometers per second.

[Jimbuna]

Watched it on tv and found it as fascinating as that first first moon landing all those years ago.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Watched it on tv and found it as fascinating as that first first moon landing all those years ago.

What got me was the idea that what was going to happen had already happened. By the time JPL received information Perseverance was at atmosphere interface. It was in reality already either on the ground safely or scatter in a million pieces. That 12 minute delay was stressing me out.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

What got me was the idea that what was going to happen had already happened. By the time JPL received information Perseverance was at atmosphere interface. It was in reality already either on the ground safely or scatter in a million pieces. That 12 minute delay was stressing me out.

You were stressed. I can imagine the groundcrew at JPL and NASA was a lot more stressed.

I'm in a marathon watching of Star Trek-TOS, TNG, Voy. DS9, disc. and the movies in this sequence. Have just watched TNG s2 ep.17.

One day in the future we will exploring the milky way with space craft which can travel with very high speed-Maybe not warp-but near warp

Markus

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by mapuc

One day in the future we will exploring the milky way with space craft which can travel with very high speed-Maybe not warp-but near warp

That's the snag. Unless we do stumble across some fundamentally new physics that allows faster than light travel, moving from one end of the milky way to the other will take more than 100,000 years. If we do manage to move across the milky way at light speed, there are other problems like you arriving a few years older but your kids back home died of old age centuries or millennias ago.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

What got me was the idea that what was going to happen had already happened. By the time JPL received information Perseverance was at atmosphere interface. It was in reality already either on the ground safely or scatter in a million pieces. That 12 minute delay was stressing me out.

I know what you mean but until we develop quicker ways of communicating over great distances we are where we are at.

Where's Kirk or Spock when you need them?

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I know what you mean but until we develop quicker ways of communicating over great distances we are where we are at.

Where's Kirk or Spock when you need them?

Who needs Kirk and Spock when we have Northrop Grumman. Seems they're working on LASER communication systems as we speak.

[Sailor Steve]

When I first saw the title I thought it was going to be about the Orson Welles 'War of the Worlds ' radio play.

Originally Posted by mapuc

I missed it....

Markus

Same here, though in my case I was in the middle of 24-hour sleep.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

When I first saw the title I thought it was going to be about the Orson Welles 'War of the Worlds ' radio play.




Same here, though in my case I was in the middle of 24-hour sleep.

Our news channel had on several occasion days before the event told its viewer about it.

Watch the landing live from 21.30(9.30 pm) Said I'll remember it...well it was first around 22.30 I suddenly came to think of it.

Markus