I see none, but I cut and enlarged this:
Like so many freepers ๐
Someday it will be returned to Earth and sold on Ebay for a cool $1,000,000.
I’m pretty sure I see a Jack Rabbit, helicopter not so much.
Life on Mars is harsh and brief.
I am of the belief that the time and resources expelled for these programs could be better served exploring our own oceans....If you don’t know how your own home is built how do you rationalize these expenditures?
Poor little fella.
I wonder what caused his blade to break?
Looks like an old and broken toy discarded on the side of the road.
How do you rationalize expenditures?
Eventually our Sun will expand, and we need to move out into space to survive. The helicopter is a proof-of-concept experiment to find out if powered flight is possible. It’s mission was, if it flew at all, to last may 30 days and fly 3-4 times. Well, like some other JPL missions (Opportunity Rover), the helicopter did not just prove flight is possible, it lasted over a year. The Perseverance rover that brought the helicopter Ingenuity to Mars also had other proof-of-concept experiments. One is called MOXIE, and MOXIE proved that we can make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere. This is huuuuge. Instead of having to always bring oxygen to Mars, we can create to breathe, and also for fuel.
Currently there are at least 4 more space stations planned to orbit the Earth. We will eventually have space stations much farther out. Besides mining other planets and moons, we will mine the asteroid belt. Mars is just a stepping stone to humans exploring the cosmos, but a very necessary step. Many future experiments and proof-of-concept efforts will fail, as we figure out how to explore and survive out there.
NASA, Not A Space Agency.
More of a money laundering scheme
Nothing a software update won’t fix.
My impression is that a power failure during flight, resulted in a hard landing.
Amazing how the lens never gets dirty. Amazing.
Wonder if the rotor blades became brittle in the Martian atmosphere? It’s polar-cold at all times up there. The mean surface temperature on Mars is -80F.
NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter, broken and alone, spotted by Perseverance
THIS is why I keep going, for signs of life in the wilderness, like in this view of Ingenuity all alone in an isolated grave, abandoned where she "died"...
it's a living midrash on Mars (Ma'adim, the red planet, same root as Adam as you know):
The helicopter was initially designed to make just five flights --
As I've documented somewhere around here in the threads for the last couple of flights, there was an odd edit in the Flight Log at the time it had been updated for Flight 72:
The distance for Flight... 71... had been changed to 0. As I'd recorded on that flight's thread, the distance was 71 m. It was supposed to travel ~358m but landed well short, which is why 72 was a pop-up check.
Yet as it stands, the very last distance traveled and recorded for Ingenuity was the ~853 (ft), on Flight 70. (358 in reverse)
Yet the speed information remains in place for Flight 71's [ืืื ื] travel of "0" distance: 7 m/s, ~ 15.7 mph. 35 [ืืืืื] seconds for the flight time. As if she'd been hovering, travelling but not travelling.
Yet somehow, it all lined up in the weirdest way, to end on 70 distance-wise, for
a story about Ingenuity, Adam's bright idea for problem-solving:
We know that Adam, the first person created, lived a long life of 930 years. But our Rabbis tend to analyze every tiny detail in the Tora and ask why Adam did not reach the more "perfect" number of 1000?
There is a beautiful midrash providing us with an answer. Adam Harishon was originally granted 1000 years of life on this earth. He was privy to see all the neshamot which would reside on earth after him; but one neshama was not shining as brightly as the others, it was flickering. Adam asked HaShem about this odd soul. God responded, telling Adam that this neshama belongs to someone who will die immediately after he is born; and what a shame that is, because this soul happened to have great potential. Adam immediately asks HaShem to take 70 years off of his own life and grant it to this neshama, which just so happened to belong to David Hamelech.
https://halakhaoftheday.org/2021/09/02/adam-and-david-a-70-years-gift/
One of the important souls significantly affected by Adam's sin was King David, who was now meant to die the moment he was born. Adam, taking responsibility for this tragedy, asked God if he could gift David with some of his years. God responded in the affirmative, so Adam granted 70 (a very significant and appropriate number) of his years to King David. Instead of living 1,000 years, Adam lived to be 930.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/king-david-and-the-angel-of-death/
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Jud Strunk's Downeast Viewpoint
So we sent him on his way to cross Route 23. Where cars and trucks come crashing down, all to climb a tree...
But now and then I'll ponder, with a certain sort of grace, that every little boy must have, to go to David's Place.
Always good to check the map. Canaan is in the middle of Rt 23. Soll's Antiques in located in the center of town.
According to the website, Soll's
developed a passion for American Stained and Beveled Glass Windows and have handled thousands over the past 40 years.
And that
Isaiah has been working full time in the business for the past 20 years and handles the computer work as well as doing Shows, Buying and Selling.
Good to know. It's so hard to find good help these days.
our Rabbis tend to analyze every tiny detail in the Tora...
Especially important in year 70. They didn't want to be caught off-guard:
The tora of the title, although literally meaning "tiger", is actually an abbreviation of a two-syllable codeword (i.e., totsugeki raigeki ็ชๆ้ทๆ, "lightning attack"), used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved.[4]
Adam had asked HaShem about this Odd soul, because he was some nut willing to take on three tigers. (1970)
Isn't Ary the Lion just the best?
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Is that Marvin the Martian standing off to the side?
Where’s the kaboom?
There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
A, fantasy filled, bunch of horse manure. A continued, grift of taxpayer treasure.
I see none, but I cut and enlarged this:
It bears mention that the timing of the mission of Apollo 11 revolved around landing on the moon in the early lunar morning, when shadows would be longest, to preclude it suffering just such a fate.