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?
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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?
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.