Topic: #41 - DIF in Spaaaace!

I'm in space.

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My internet connection cut off whilst this was getting recorded, so at least some of this will be fresh!

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3 (edited by Matt Vayda 2012-09-04 10:50:33)

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That first XKCD with the rover always gets something in my eye. *sniff*

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That is because you're crazy.

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Every time I watch video of the Curiosity landing procedure, I become re-convinced that it will never work. Even though it already has.

Who's crazy now, eh? Eh?

Hold on, let me think about that.

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I can't think about space too much because it makes me feel that we failed as a species.

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^ at least that one is better than the 'two suns' one that fooled a lot of people recently big_smile

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not long to go now...

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not long to go now...

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SO what happened to the flying sky crane part? Did it just kamikaze into the side of a mountain?

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Pretty much.

A few days after the landing, someone stitched together a stabilized version of the video from the orbiter, and you can actually see (read: two pixels) of a poof off to one side.

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16 (edited by Phi 2012-09-06 09:39:51)

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Ah. Well, yeah. *sheepish*

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Somehow I convinced myself that it was flying around like a flying saucer doing probe stuff. I have no one to blame but myself for my disappointment.

With science!

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Great show, guys!

Regarding Tesla, they're no longer making the Roadster. They've moved on to the Model S sedan, which--just three years later--is way better in every way.