I am waiting to patronize that new restaurant on Mars.
Great Food...not much atmosphere.
And the outdoor seating to flatten the curve isn’t cutting it.
*ping*
This is cool.
“Dr. Grip at the same time spearheaded the development of computer algorithms that would be able to steer and adjust the flight of the helicopter quickly enough to automatically respond to shifting atmospheric conditions on Mars”
I’ve known several people over the years with oddly appropriate surnames like that.
They had a competition to name this little helicopter. I think the name should have been Mayfly. This because it might not make it and even if it does it’s only going to fly for a few minutes. It’s like that lander that was sent to Titan. You wait years and years for it to arrive and it only lasts for a few minutes! It should be nuclear powered like the latest rover on Mars is.
Ping.
One day, alas not soon, we will stop wasting money on Mars as we realize there is nothing of any value there.
The last jr. high history book that I taught from neglected to mention the Wright Brothers at all—although to be fair, it had a picture of the Flyer. It did have room for a couple of sentences to mark the achievement of the woman who started the first kindergarten class for black kids in Los Angeles, however.
Why didn't NASA think of a main booster that could turn around and land on a floating platform to be re-used? NASA is old inside box thinking. Musk and others are the future. No, I"m not a rocket scientist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn.
I wonder if they are taking bets on whether or not it survives its first flight.
is it going to find the American flag that Sheila Jackson Lee spoke about?
Does Mars have a wall and a heavy shelf? I am the expert at wedging a small drone right between them if NASA needs me for that.
Wouldn’t a drone be more practical?
Just like the Wright Brothers. Except for billions of public funding and decades of scientific knowledge and engineering to draw on. Except for that, exactly the same!
Mars has such a thing atmosphere...
” The body of Ingenuity is about the size of a softball with four spindly legs sticking out. Two sets of blades, each about 4 feet from tip to tip, spin in opposite directions. It weighs just 4 pounds and stands about one and a half feet high. “
4 lb in a softball makes it pretty dense.
How is it powered and how long will it last ??? What payload ???
Will it ‘plug in’ to the bigger ‘home’ unit ???
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Honest question: Does Mars have an atmosphere? Is it dense enough to support aerodynamics; wing lift, propeller thrust?
“NASA Mars Helicopter Will Be Red Planet’s ‘Wright Brothers Moment’”
Um, no it won’t. Biggest dumbass thing I’ve ever heard out of NASA. Must be a Zoomer.
The mission is scheduled to launch on July 20
MARSHELICOPTER, named
INGENUITY -- noun: the quality of being clever, original, and inventive.
It's the little Can-DO engine that could. So many positive waves. Can + DO
If it works, the small helicopter, named Ingenuity, will open a new way for future robotic explorers to get a bird’s-eye view of Mars and other worlds:
If it works?! Based on the information flooding out of this article, it's already arrived.
Discover the unknown. Light bulb moments, the spirit of revelation:
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth:
2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; And a wind from God moved (hovered) upon the face of the waters:
3. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light:
ingenuity (n.)
1590s, "honor, nobility," from Middle French ingénuité "quality of freedom by birth" and directly from Latin ingenuitatem (nominative ingenuitas) "condition of a free-born man," figuratively "frankness, generosity, noble-mindedness," from ingenuus "frank, candid, noble" (see ingenuous).
Etymologically, this word belongs to ingenuous, but in 17c. ingenious "intellectual, talented" and ingenuous so often were confused (even by Shakespeare) that ingenuity in English has come to mean only "capacity for invention or construction." That sense of this word is first attested 1640s; the word for it in Middle English was ingeniosity (the native word is craftiness). French ingénuité, meanwhile, has evolved through "natural and graceful freedom of manners" to "graceful simplicity" (compare ingenue); for the sense "ingeniousness," French uses ingéniosité.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ingenuityingenuous (adj.)
1590s, "noble in nature, high-minded; honorably straightforward," from Latin ingenuus "with the virtues of freeborn people, of noble character, frank, upright, candid," originally "native, freeborn," literally "born in (a place)," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + PIE *gen(e)-wo-, suffixed form of root gene- "to give birth, beget, produce" (see genus). Sense of "artless, innocent" is 1670s, via evolution from "honorably open, straightforward," to "innocently frank." Related: Ingenuously; ingenuousness.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/ingenuous
ingenuous - born in (a place) [אם]... where it was said unto them, You are not my people:
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