Posted on 08/15/2023 12:34:03 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Flight 55
Sol 881
Date Aug. 12, 2023
Horizontal Distance 263.99 m ~866 ft
Max. Altitude 10 m ~33 ft
Max. Groundspeed 4.70 m/s ~10.5 mph
Duration 142.9 seconds
Route of Flight From Airfield Omicron To Airfield Pi
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Flights
55
(as of 8/12/23)
Distance Flown
12,503 meters
(~41,024 ft)
Highest Altitude
18 meters
(~59 ft)
Fastest Ground Speed
6.50 m/s
(14.5 mph)
Flight Time
~97.9 minutes
(5,874 seconds)
Image of the Week:
Mars Perseverance Sol 879: SuperCam Camera
This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 130 (Aug. 6 - 12, 2023) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager, located at the top of the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on Aug. 10, 2023 (Sol 879) at the local mean solar time of 11:49:31.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP
There’s no need to send people to Mars. First of all there is no life on that planet. Second robots can do everything humans can do and all we should be doing is to look for mineral resources.
Adorable “image of the week” ping.
This flight snuck onto the log today without a flight preview status update. Gotta keep watch! 🤠
🤨 Where ya been?
Ginny is a genuine California Girl!
The little whirlybird that could!
Need? Why should this be about “need”?
No one needed to climb mountains. There’s nothing but rock, ice, and cold up there. And yet, we did it.
All kinds of reasons to WANT to go. As long as tax payer dollars aren’t being used for it... It shouldn’t be an issue.
Elon is showing the way.
A few years ago, my husband and I watched the movie, “John Carter of Mars”. Was it brilliant cinema? Of course not, but it was very entertaining, and we’ve watched it several times, since. That led me to read Edgar Rice Burroughs’, of Tarzan fame, Mars series, which, believe it or not, was very exciting and entertaining. His take on the mysterious Red Planet, for its day, was in the realm of possibility for many readers.
Wikipedia has the following entry:
“Because of the part Burroughs’s science fiction played in inspiring real exploration of Mars, an impact crater on Mars was named in his honor after his death.[28] In a Paris Review interview, Ray Bradbury said of Burroughs that “Edgar Rice Burroughs never would have looked upon himself as a social mover and shaker with social obligations. But as it turns out – and I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly – Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world.”[29] Bradbury continued that “By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special.”
As exciting as the Mars landing and future exploration is, wouldn’t it be fun if Burroughs’ version were true?
“”There’s no need to send people to Mars.””
Eventually, our Sun will expand and destroy all life on Earth. Way before, we need to expand into our universe.
When I mention this to some family members, they talk about God, that we will be saved long before the Sun destroys the Earth. My response is, yes, God is going to do what God will do. WHEN God will do this.....well....I do not presume to know God’s will, and we had better take care of business until that time.
As someone who grew up reading The Sands of Mars, The Red Planet and such, I’m an avid proponent of human exploration of Mars. Not interested in cost justification. Human exploration of the unknown is in our DNA. Just something we gotta do. That’s all.
Putting drones in flight on other planets is a pretty good achievement for a highly emotional mutant ape.
Wouldn't that also include the government paying for everything like food for everyone also? Since it's in our DNA?
There will be no significant human space travel outside of the earth system. Ever. The moon is the extent of it.
If you are suggesting other star systems, you’d better be ready to extend human life into many thousands of years. perhaps through a suspended state, but what relevance would that provide when the craft arrives?
If you even hint at bringing God into the conversation, you’ll have to bring the WHOLE God, not the one who is dependent on human endeavors.
More wiki:
The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<<<
And wouldn't you know it... a couple of days ago I was reading up on Percival Lowell after wandering around some maps. I had ended up at the Lowell Observatory which is on "Mars Hill".
Always a fan of seemingly unrelated things connecting in the weirdest ways, that's the name of the place of "first light" (sunrise) on America from Mar 25 (Feast of the Annunciation) - Sept 18. Also "First Wind."
"In astronomy, first light is the first use of a telescope (or, in general, a new instrument) to take an astronomical image after it has been constructed."
GOD is all encompassing and doesn’t need human endeavors to exist.
Interesting. Thanks!
I think we already are. Saw a spot on the news this morning that Harvard grad students are going to apply for EBT cards 🙄
Christopher Columbus wasn't looking for a New World. He was looking for an ocean route to China and India because the traditional land route was menaced by mohammedans.
they might have fallen off the edge of the world.
Christopher Columbus, and pretty much everybody else at the time, knew that Earth is round(ish), and roughly how big it is.
But Christopher Columbus was a Christian ... a Catholic, no less ... and secularists just have to smear Christians for some reason, so they invent silly fables about what the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Christians believe(d).
Sorry. Computer problems. I hope they are now fixed.
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