The 7 minutes of Martian terror

[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.

[Onkel Neal]

I'm looking fwd to seeing the video it captured during landing. What an engineering feat.