Remember that frankly bonkers video I showed about how they hope to land the next scientific probe on Mars this coming August? Well, here are some of the lunatics who designed it, explaining their thinking:
What could possibly go wrong?
Gruts
keeping my finger on the ball
Incredible… and so good that NASA has the wit to put this out with the engineers tacitly acknowledging that it remains, after all the calculations, a bugnutty batshit crazy idea (to borrow a term from Penn Jillette). Go Curiosity!
The wait once we lose contact with this bonkers machine as it enters the atmosphere is going to be agonising.