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1 posted on 04/12/2021 11:09:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
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What are they going to do if it’s a mechanical problem? Send a mechanic? Sprinkle down magic dust from orbit?


2 posted on 04/12/2021 11:17:29 AM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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There’s a weather risk as well. The bird may check out, but it could become windy.


3 posted on 04/12/2021 11:17:39 AM PDT by cicero2k
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This thing relies on solar power. I wonder if they considered recharging its batteries by having the nuclear powered rover sidle up to it and using a plug free charging like many current phones have.


4 posted on 04/12/2021 11:18:13 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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I don’t think it will fly. Helicopters can’t fly above safely above 10,000 feet, and Mars is 174 million miles up in space so that right there should tell you it ain’t going to work. /S


5 posted on 04/12/2021 11:20:51 AM PDT by shotgun
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They didn’t turn in the environmental impact report.


6 posted on 04/12/2021 11:21:51 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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Virus lock down on Mars?


8 posted on 04/12/2021 11:23:14 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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This occurred as it was trying to transition the flight computer from ‘Pre-Flight’ to ‘Flight’ mode.

Having purchased a drone myself last summer, let me tell you, you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to fly them......

9 posted on 04/12/2021 11:24:27 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Last thing my priest said to me at confession was "I didn't need to hear that")
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Send up a roll of duct tape.


10 posted on 04/12/2021 11:26:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The diverse NASA team probably has the blades on upside-down...

To get it to fly, they may have to get to to roll over...


15 posted on 04/12/2021 11:34:06 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Samuel Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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Have they tried cussing at it yet?


18 posted on 04/12/2021 11:44:54 AM PDT by Yardstick
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Trump’s fault or Brian Williams has yet to get there for the flight. One or the other.


19 posted on 04/12/2021 11:45:45 AM PDT by laweeks (Just wait till you have to have a biopsy from your prostate, now that is an experience you will neve)
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Red Green would just say, “Get the duct tape!”


20 posted on 04/12/2021 11:46:45 AM PDT by laweeks (Just wait till you have to have a biopsy from your prostate, now that is an experience you will neve)
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If only we had an Election Watchdog Timer...


22 posted on 04/12/2021 11:49:59 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...lyet.)
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The atmosphere on Mars is about 1/1000th the density of Earth’s atmosphere.

It’s amazing that this device could generate enough lift to get off the ground.


26 posted on 04/12/2021 1:11:06 PM PDT by Signalman
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Imagine trying to control a helicopter when any command you give it will not be executed for 12 minutes or more.


28 posted on 04/12/2021 5:17:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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