Perseverence Rover

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

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lands on Mars in about an hour.  It's the biggest and most sophisticated payload ever dropped on another planet.  There is even a drone.  I hope to catch some of the commentary.  Hoping JPL can pull it off.



https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

Frivolous pursuits. Mars will never be habitable.

[audacityofhope]

Frivolous pursuits. Mars will never be habitable.

Arcadian, why wouldn't you not dare dream?
In 1831 and as the story is usually told, the prime minister was given a demonstration of induction by Faraday. When asked, “What good is it?” Faraday replied: “What good is a newborn baby?” Fifty years passed before electric power really took off as envisioned by Faraday. Faraday discovered the law of electromagnetic induction. The discovery of induction was eventually formalized by Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell into an equation now known as Maxwell–Faraday equation. The equation by Maxwell became the foundation of power generation hence making Faraday the father of electricity.

So listen good @Arcadian, our modern world owes its prosperity and the high quality of life that so many of us enjoy to scientific developments that is built entirely on curiosity-based research. I am not just talking about the mzungu. Even in the darkest of times, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Japaneseand ... even the Iraqis (if Baghdad Bob is to be believed when he said   "When we were making the law when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfathers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.") These lot were not content to just gather honey and fruits in the immediate neighborhoods. Maintaining and improving the lives of all people in the world is built on a bedrock of unfettered curiosity-driven research.
If you want to argue against what I just wrote then you truly are just a biological accident on planet Earth. Here ended the lesson.

[GeeMail]

Sending B/w photos in this tech era? Are they using Polaroid or Kodak? Could it be wowing us from Sillycon Valley?

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Sending B/w photos in this tech era? Are they using Polaroid or Kodak? Could it be wowing us from Sillycon Valley?

The photos are more of a ping than anything. You don't need 4K UHD for that.  The bandwidth is not unlimited.  And it's far(11 minutes for a one way signal - increasing because Mars is moving farther at this time of the year). 

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Frivolous pursuits. Mars will never be habitable.

I tend to agree, in a general sense.  But frivolous is us.  Not everything has to be serious or concerned with fixing the human condition.  It's likely to be just an outpost, much like McMurdo Station in Antarctica.  I think space based terrariums are more scalable.

[gout]

Some of these projects are obnoxious. The mzungu need to have learned from Coviid of why investing in what Trump is one way to walk safely into the future as a universe.