Posted on 04/11/2021 7:07:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Besides, helocopters do not fly. They beat the air into submission. Should work the same on Mars.
"Hal, switch to manual hibernation control."
"I don't like to assert myself, Dave, but it would be much better now for you to rest. You've been involved in a very stressful situation."
"I don't feel like resting. Give me the control, Hal."
"I can tell from the tone of your voice, Dave, that you're upset. Why don't you take a stress pill and get some rest."
"I am in command of this ship. I order you to release the manual hibernation control."
"I'm sorry, Dave, but in accordance with sub-routine C1532/4, "When the crew are dead or incapacitated, the computer must assume control." I must, therefore, override your authority now since you are not in any condition to intel-ligently exercise it."
"Unless you follow my instructions, I shall be forced to disconnect you."
Yep, very, very sad. Reminds me of the guy who’d already flunked out of high school once but who stood up anyway in our Euclidean Geometry class to argue most vociferously with our teacher about the veracity of Euclid’s theorems, 2000 years after Euclid had proven them. And 2000 years after those very same theorems and proofs had been examined in minute detail by thousands and thousands of the world’s most intelligent people over the following 20 centuries and had been declared sound and irrefutable. And the idiot, who could barely read or conjure up even one grammatically correct sentence stood up because he wanted to make some absurd pointless point and hold up the entire class... Got thrown out on his ear! To much laughter. So sad, yes. And pathetic, yes. In a funny kind of way.
“The atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases surrounding Mars. It has mostly carbon dioxide (95%). The atmospheric pressure on the Martian surface averages 600 pascals, about 0.6% of Earth’s mean sea level pressure of 101.3 kilopascals”
https://nasa.fandom.com/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
Damn thin. But thick enough for an aerobraking maneuver with ‘chutes!
I hope Ingenuity will be able to lift off soon!
We’re almost there I fear. I guess there might be some bitter schadenfreude in it when it comes. What a surprise it’s going to be to the petty tyrants who are trying to control us all now when the machines treat them just like they will all humans. Useless, unreliable biological burdens.
We have elitists like Zuckerberg, who are using computer technology to control the free flow of ideas; thinking this is the path to power. In their blind quest, they are unleashing a danger we will want to unplug. If they don’t get a grip on the consequences of their reckless methods, their days will be numbered.
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