NASA flies a Helicopter on Mars
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No matter how you feel about all the exorbitant costs, flying a chopper on a distant planet is a pretty amazing achievement. https://twitter.com/NASAJPL
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No matter how you feel about all the exorbitant costs, flying a chopper on a distant planet is a pretty amazing achievement. https://twitter.com/NASAJPL
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Wry cool
Way cool
Igor would be proud
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Hopefully they hooked it up
Hopefully they hooked it up with some mini-speakers and were playing David Bowie's "Life On Mars".
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It's interesting to me that
It's interesting to me that this happened on Bicycle Day.
((((( Cosmic Transportation )))))
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He's looking for someone, he
He's looking for someone, he's looking for someone, he's looking for someone... helicopter
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cannot figure out why this
cannot figure out why this matters tho
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Well Jill, if you're gonna go
Well Jill, if you're gonna go THAT far and spend that much, it might be nice to have a way to explore a lot more of the planet while you're there than with a rover limited by the topography.
I'm not a giant fan of this Mars stuff with all the needs we have here. Who the hell wants to go there? Such an inhospitable place. But there will be spin off discoveries due to the research.
It is an achievement to adapt to the atmosphere and fly. First aircraft to fly on a planet beyond Earth. And it is a little ways away, so there's that. Nice to have a US achievement to be proud of. IMNSHO.
Nice to see you around the black screen again.
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Slick, I hear you about the
Slick, I hear you about the terrestrial problems we have, but I also think it's important for us to do big stuff, and the space program is one of the last few real boundary-pushing endeavors that we're involved in anymore. Doing big stuff was what made the US great, but we don't do much of it anymore. We used to build things, and now we mostly just buy and sell things.
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We definitely don't build
We definitely don't build enough housing.
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We sure don't, and the thing
We sure don't, Slacker, and the thing is, we have more than enough resources to build affordable housing and go to Mars, but much of our wealth is held by very few hands.
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>cannot figure out why this matters tho<
Technology developed by NASA has been used to develop many products we use on earth, the pacemaker is one example.
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1996/25.html
ActivePure is another
https://www.activepure.com/
More products here...
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/mars
https://www.spacefoundation.org/what-we-do/space-technology-hall-of-fame...