— ARCHIVED – NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
84 thoughts on “NASA Sticks It Again”
MIMI !The plucky young woman !
Great images from Mars.(Looks like Ted’s been eating too much of Nancy’s ice cream.) And, Bernie, WTF?
We can get a rover (and a chopper) to Mars, again, but we can’t heat homes in TX, nor secure safe drinking water, nor get either of our senators to care…or even to stay in the country.
Ya think W didn’t care during Katrina? Get a load of Ted Cruz during the winter of 2021.
Exploration –
When Vasgo made it around the Cape of Good Hope, and he got to Mumbai he caught two fishermen in the bay , and hung them from his yard arms.
Just to make a point.
Ted had a giant suitcase in the airport (not an overnighter), so he planned to stay in Mexico. Blame it on your daughters. Say you had to go with them to be a good parent. It’s all BS, Ted. Was he going to check that thing or be one of those a-holes that takes all of the overhead space for everyone in the section?
Where is this guy today ?
And then we have John tits-on-bull Cornyn. Man, I wish MJ had won.
OM – If you google his name, his tweets show up in the news feed. He’s still lying on behalf of the 1%.
I saw a tweet expressing how the man felt good about watching the NASA control rooms cheering on a successful landing. Many people spend years, even working lifetimes, planning, building, testing, building, retesting, launch and then something. That can be a landing or orbit. But the relief is so intense at knowing your work did something you planned it to do is huge. There is actually a big cheer and happiness earlier which is usually not seen, that the rocket or spacecraft left the pad and did not explode. Space travel is risky. Then there is another point, usually only known to those in operations when the rocket is left behind and the whatever is first put to its paces to do something. Work towards an orbit, or find a route out and off to a distant location. There are many private cheers too, such as fixing a problem from Earth. Many of the birds are not designed to be fixed once they leave the pad. The job satisfaction of putting the new Mars rover in place has to rate as one of those things only a few people will ever experience.
— ARCHIVED – NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
I’ve spent most of this day on zoom meetings and running around for this and that. But I did manage to watch those elated scientists as that Rover touched down… it was glorious!
All joking aside, it is a spectacular accomplishment.
I still want to know how flies a drone with an 11 minute lag between the “pilot” and the drone, or am I reading this 11 minute thing wrong?
"TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED!"
Cheers erupt in NASA control room as Perseverance rover successfully touches down on Mars—an endeavor that is part of one of the agency's most ambitious deep-space missions to search for signs of ancient life on the red planet. https://t.co/MHDxFzmxNhpic.twitter.com/Mhz6oFTxd7
This Texas rotten egg , is going to be as big as the defeat of Trump, the Georgia runoffs , the assault on the Capital, et al.
The liberals have not been running Texas for a very long time , and like Trump, when a black swan landed on their lawn , a lot of yada, yada, yada.
Pogo, they designed the rover to command the drone in real time. These people are freaking amazing, get so little funding for what they accomplish.
Pogo –
Mimi has 30 Martinian days to run 6 tests . All set in the drone brain, all of it designed to test if they can do . That is pure engineering.
That’s the entire flight program. If it’s still flying after that , ….. gravy.
Such an interesting experiment on board is a device designed to convert carbon monoxide into oxygen. If that works humans can live there!
I have experienced what Mimi is up against. When you take the helo above 8500 feet. In the morning the air is cold and thick , by One o’clock it’s burning a lot more fuel just to stay in the air.
This thin air problem is a really big deal , her teams answer ?
A lot of horse power with a skinny design .
This thing needs a nickname.
Same thing happens at Phoenix Airport now, too hot to fly.
Ted lied. He was scheduled to come back NEXT Saturday. He re-booked his return trip this morning!
Pogo – there is a lot of history of landing on Mars. It is well mapped and the surface 3D mapped too. The new crafts have great radar and sensors to pick up where the thing is and what it is doing. Plus, the full flight and landing is already planned and in memory. The eleven minute delay is built into the flight plan, basically all that the bird is sending back is confirmation of where it was and any condition codes. Once the command to land is sent this type of system executes it, there is no turning back. Once the rover is operating then loads are sent to it to route it and run experiments. The craft and rover have failure response modes and safe modes to handle problems which are not in the memories. That is when commanding from Earth is necessary.
A word on investing money –
Corning Glass invests in what they call , “patient money” . They made Edson’s first bulbs .
With they first produced fiber optic glass , there was zero need for it. And no one had any idea what to do with it.
NASA is “patient money”.
Old, who is Mimi? I don’t undestand much of what you’re talking about.
Helicopter Mimi is about to be a big star , she is infectious, with spark.
The Mars helicopter is named Ingenuity.
She’s the head of helo team , she been at it 6 years.
Mimi had a baby, and after six years they named it “Ingenuity’.
She is a Mother of Invention.
Ok whatever. I don’t speak or understand cryptic tongues, sorry
By the way all, I have twice in the last month emailed both Flatus and X-repub to their address on file and gotten no response. Don’t want to borrow trouble but very worried.
Thanks Blue, I’m a literal guy, I need clarity sometimes
Seditious Ted Cruz went on vacation to Mexico during a massive crisis in Texas, blamed the trip on his daughters, claimed he was being a good parent and just dropping them off, re-booked his return trip this morning when he had originally booked his return for next Saturday.
Lies, lies, lies.
The JPL shots ……………
Every team we see there is a fresh group , devoted to their mission , and their mission only . It is a thing of beauty how they flow through those chairs. Jupiter , Pluto, Mars.
I am reminded of the old SNL joke about Voyager and it’s gold sound track on the side.
Steve Martin reporting the first interstellar answer back –
“Send more Chuck Berry”
Flatus posted maybe last week? I lose track of time. Yes, I’m worried, too.
yes flatus has made a couple of short posts lately.
Sorry CC
Cabin fever here.
This woman is going to join Wiley Post, two French guys who flew chickens, Yager, the Wright Brothers, Greeks with wax wings , Lindbergh and Amilia, Count Zeppelin , John Glenn , etc.
But she is going to do it on another world !
And she is perfect for our times. I’d work myself to death if I was on her team.
Yes Flatus last posted Feb. 15 and haven’t heard from Xrepub since his wife posted he was in Covid trouble.
You and I have our mugs hanging in a hallway near Wales , Amigo .
We freaked those guys out.
There are a great many things you understand.
Thinning the herd , an abstract idea until till you find yourself in the corral .
BiD… here in rural NH, we all have septic systems and individual wells. We lose power… we lose the ability to pump that water into our homes. Melting snow in order to get water to flush a toilet is considered normal.
CC –
I ate over 100 acid trips , I dug my own peyote, I ate good mescaline , I ate ergot the fungus that drove the Salem Witch trials. I ate mushrooms .
And I smoked a box car of pot.
You don’t have to understand me anymore.
I’m just trying to type clever words here.
Congratulations to NASA and everyone whose hard work made Perseverance’s historic landing possible. Today proved once again that with the power of science and American ingenuity, nothing is beyond the realm of possibility. pic.twitter.com/NzSxW6nw4k
Old, as an editor once told me, clever is easily misunderstood.
Ergot –
A fungus that grows on rye in storage.
It is a rocket to crazy in 10 mins. Then for the next hour you float back to Earth.
Little wonder these people freaked out.
So glad it was President Biden who got to congratulate the mission team.
CC –
As Charlie Blaze said to me, “Gravity never sleeps”. then he pulled the collective on the Lama. And we rose straight up into the air in a triangle of power lines.
That was in Rifle, Colorado we were all in a camp ground , sleeping in tents.
That job made me.
We had two experimental drills in the field , both had 2 engines. Our lead field man , Spiffy and our best helper crash a Jeep.
I get the job , I had both of these drills broke down in the hole.
Each one had lost hydraulic power. Split hoses .
And we had no way to make new ones.
I flew 50 gallons of ATF to the drills , and I tripped that steel out of the hole. While those drills sprayed ATF all over Colorado.
Now we were down to 3 drills , just starting to drill that Volcano .
There is a tube of glass in Northwest Colorado south of US 40 . It is very very old. To see it from a far it is just a hill.
It is the most amazing thing I ever saw, the top , lets call it the nipple, This a deep Roman Red with white milky swirls in it , and Blue balls covered in white shells are embedded in it.
It maybe a 1,000 feet across.
It is the hardest rock I ever tried to make a hole in.
Thinning the herd , an abstract idea until till you find yourself in the corral
Yep. As I keep saying, human beings will figure out a way to do it for themselves gracefully or mother nature and general stupidity on a Darwinian level will get the job done.
We utterly failed the contract .
But I learned what to do , when you’re broke down in the hole. In this lesson it was $5,000 in down hole rock hammers.
I saved the iron. These were the good ones , Mission rock hammers . They were 125 lbs each. They ran so long ,when they stopped working, it was a major effort to unscrew them.
BiD, couldn’t it have always been worse if you lived through it? What a bunch of shit. Words uttered by people who were warm, clean and fed or just idiots. IMHO ONLY people who experienced the worst of this or that have standing to say such things.
“Such an interesting experiment on board is a device designed to convert carbon monoxide into oxygen. If that works humans can live there! “
craig, and if they tweak the device a tad to convert carbon dioxide to oxygen maybe humans can also live here.
The bed rock ideas of the right are as dead as Rush. Their theory about government is dead in Texas.
Black History –
Almost every Supreme Court judge before 1860 owned slaves.
God am I so sad I can not watch another 71 years. The fate of mankind. And I’ll be dead.
Texas is still pumping gas to hell to burn that fat bastard in hell.
He made $5oo Million , and our nation was torn apart.
My entire theory about the American Right –
If Rush , and Ann had a date to the prom , this would be a better world.
Being a fat asshole , and vomiting bitch makes it really hard to get a date.
Slow down Old, I’m getting alerts from spam filter. I now have to manually approve your posts and would rather go to bed.
before I sink into the big sleep , I want to hear the scream of the butterfly.
So does it have soil???
OM – Listen to something calming like Stan Getz & João Gilberto and get some sleep.
…he’s just making my “slow-burn” punchlines that much funnier.
i should have borrowed money from xrep, damnit! #hindsight20/20
After trawling a shitload of obits trying to confirm my suspicions, a while back, i can tell you that COVID has killed a lot of accomplished, benevolent people that were assets to their communities
headline from the future:
”Martian Parents Lobby for School Vouchers, Citing Liberal Bias in Martian School Curricula”
“Martian Epidemiologists Determine Majority of Covid-57 Transmission Happens in Polycarbonate Domes”
“Stray Gunfire over Parking Dispute Depressurizes Entire Mars Colony, No Survivors”
MIMI !The plucky young woman !
Great images from Mars.(Looks like Ted’s been eating too much of Nancy’s ice cream.) And, Bernie, WTF?
We can get a rover (and a chopper) to Mars, again, but we can’t heat homes in TX, nor secure safe drinking water, nor get either of our senators to care…or even to stay in the country.
Ya think W didn’t care during Katrina? Get a load of Ted Cruz during the winter of 2021.
Exploration –
When Vasgo made it around the Cape of Good Hope, and he got to Mumbai he caught two fishermen in the bay , and hung them from his yard arms.
Just to make a point.
Ted had a giant suitcase in the airport (not an overnighter), so he planned to stay in Mexico. Blame it on your daughters. Say you had to go with them to be a good parent. It’s all BS, Ted. Was he going to check that thing or be one of those a-holes that takes all of the overhead space for everyone in the section?
Where is this guy today ?
And then we have John tits-on-bull Cornyn. Man, I wish MJ had won.
OM – If you google his name, his tweets show up in the news feed. He’s still lying on behalf of the 1%.
I saw a tweet expressing how the man felt good about watching the NASA control rooms cheering on a successful landing. Many people spend years, even working lifetimes, planning, building, testing, building, retesting, launch and then something. That can be a landing or orbit. But the relief is so intense at knowing your work did something you planned it to do is huge. There is actually a big cheer and happiness earlier which is usually not seen, that the rocket or spacecraft left the pad and did not explode. Space travel is risky. Then there is another point, usually only known to those in operations when the rocket is left behind and the whatever is first put to its paces to do something. Work towards an orbit, or find a route out and off to a distant location. There are many private cheers too, such as fixing a problem from Earth. Many of the birds are not designed to be fixed once they leave the pad. The job satisfaction of putting the new Mars rover in place has to rate as one of those things only a few people will ever experience.
I’ve spent most of this day on zoom meetings and running around for this and that. But I did manage to watch those elated scientists as that Rover touched down… it was glorious!
All joking aside, it is a spectacular accomplishment.
I still want to know how flies a drone with an 11 minute lag between the “pilot” and the drone, or am I reading this 11 minute thing wrong?
This Texas rotten egg , is going to be as big as the defeat of Trump, the Georgia runoffs , the assault on the Capital, et al.
The liberals have not been running Texas for a very long time , and like Trump, when a black swan landed on their lawn , a lot of yada, yada, yada.
Pogo, they designed the rover to command the drone in real time. These people are freaking amazing, get so little funding for what they accomplish.
Pogo –
Mimi has 30 Martinian days to run 6 tests . All set in the drone brain, all of it designed to test if they can do . That is pure engineering.
That’s the entire flight program. If it’s still flying after that , ….. gravy.
Such an interesting experiment on board is a device designed to convert carbon monoxide into oxygen. If that works humans can live there!
I have experienced what Mimi is up against. When you take the helo above 8500 feet. In the morning the air is cold and thick , by One o’clock it’s burning a lot more fuel just to stay in the air.
This thin air problem is a really big deal , her teams answer ?
A lot of horse power with a skinny design .
This thing needs a nickname.
Same thing happens at Phoenix Airport now, too hot to fly.
Ted lied. He was scheduled to come back NEXT Saturday. He re-booked his return trip this morning!
Pogo – there is a lot of history of landing on Mars. It is well mapped and the surface 3D mapped too. The new crafts have great radar and sensors to pick up where the thing is and what it is doing. Plus, the full flight and landing is already planned and in memory. The eleven minute delay is built into the flight plan, basically all that the bird is sending back is confirmation of where it was and any condition codes. Once the command to land is sent this type of system executes it, there is no turning back. Once the rover is operating then loads are sent to it to route it and run experiments. The craft and rover have failure response modes and safe modes to handle problems which are not in the memories. That is when commanding from Earth is necessary.
A word on investing money –
Corning Glass invests in what they call , “patient money” . They made Edson’s first bulbs .
With they first produced fiber optic glass , there was zero need for it. And no one had any idea what to do with it.
NASA is “patient money”.
Old, who is Mimi? I don’t undestand much of what you’re talking about.
Helicopter Mimi is about to be a big star , she is infectious, with spark.
The Mars helicopter is named Ingenuity.
She’s the head of helo team , she been at it 6 years.
Mimi had a baby, and after six years they named it “Ingenuity’.
She is a Mother of Invention.
Ok whatever. I don’t speak or understand cryptic tongues, sorry
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-ingenuity-meet-mimi-aung-the-woman-launching-a-helicopter-on-mars/
Her name is Mimi Aung
By the way all, I have twice in the last month emailed both Flatus and X-repub to their address on file and gotten no response. Don’t want to borrow trouble but very worried.
Thanks Blue, I’m a literal guy, I need clarity sometimes
Seditious Ted Cruz went on vacation to Mexico during a massive crisis in Texas, blamed the trip on his daughters, claimed he was being a good parent and just dropping them off, re-booked his return trip this morning when he had originally booked his return for next Saturday.
Lies, lies, lies.
The JPL shots ……………
Every team we see there is a fresh group , devoted to their mission , and their mission only . It is a thing of beauty how they flow through those chairs. Jupiter , Pluto, Mars.
I am reminded of the old SNL joke about Voyager and it’s gold sound track on the side.
Steve Martin reporting the first interstellar answer back –
“Send more Chuck Berry”
Flatus posted maybe last week? I lose track of time. Yes, I’m worried, too.
yes flatus has made a couple of short posts lately.
Sorry CC
Cabin fever here.
This woman is going to join Wiley Post, two French guys who flew chickens, Yager, the Wright Brothers, Greeks with wax wings , Lindbergh and Amilia, Count Zeppelin , John Glenn , etc.
But she is going to do it on another world !
And she is perfect for our times. I’d work myself to death if I was on her team.
We are a great people. And we are our last best hope.
Hell is still coming to breakfast.
It’s Ok, Old, I seldom understand what you’re talking about but I enjoy it anyway.
Folks are getting creative; using melted snow to flush toilets with low water pressure.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/politics/capitol-police-officers-suspended/index.html
Hope we can charge Ted, Josh and others with something for their part in 1/6/21.
Yes Flatus last posted Feb. 15 and haven’t heard from Xrepub since his wife posted he was in Covid trouble.
You and I have our mugs hanging in a hallway near Wales , Amigo .
We freaked those guys out.
There are a great many things you understand.
Thinning the herd , an abstract idea until till you find yourself in the corral .
BiD… here in rural NH, we all have septic systems and individual wells. We lose power… we lose the ability to pump that water into our homes. Melting snow in order to get water to flush a toilet is considered normal.
CC –
I ate over 100 acid trips , I dug my own peyote, I ate good mescaline , I ate ergot the fungus that drove the Salem Witch trials. I ate mushrooms .
And I smoked a box car of pot.
You don’t have to understand me anymore.
I’m just trying to type clever words here.
Old, as an editor once told me, clever is easily misunderstood.
Ergot –
A fungus that grows on rye in storage.
It is a rocket to crazy in 10 mins. Then for the next hour you float back to Earth.
Little wonder these people freaked out.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/politics/manatee-county-vaccine/index.html
Republicans really are loathsome creatures.
So glad it was President Biden who got to congratulate the mission team.
CC –
As Charlie Blaze said to me, “Gravity never sleeps”. then he pulled the collective on the Lama. And we rose straight up into the air in a triangle of power lines.
That was in Rifle, Colorado we were all in a camp ground , sleeping in tents.
That job made me.
We had two experimental drills in the field , both had 2 engines. Our lead field man , Spiffy and our best helper crash a Jeep.
I get the job , I had both of these drills broke down in the hole.
Each one had lost hydraulic power. Split hoses .
And we had no way to make new ones.
I flew 50 gallons of ATF to the drills , and I tripped that steel out of the hole. While those drills sprayed ATF all over Colorado.
Now we were down to 3 drills , just starting to drill that Volcano .
There is a tube of glass in Northwest Colorado south of US 40 . It is very very old. To see it from a far it is just a hill.
It is the most amazing thing I ever saw, the top , lets call it the nipple, This a deep Roman Red with white milky swirls in it , and Blue balls covered in white shells are embedded in it.
It maybe a 1,000 feet across.
It is the hardest rock I ever tried to make a hole in.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/
I guess telling Texans that it could’ve been much worse is supposed to help everyone feel better?
Yep. As I keep saying, human beings will figure out a way to do it for themselves gracefully or mother nature and general stupidity on a Darwinian level will get the job done.
We utterly failed the contract .
But I learned what to do , when you’re broke down in the hole. In this lesson it was $5,000 in down hole rock hammers.
I saved the iron. These were the good ones , Mission rock hammers . They were 125 lbs each. They ran so long ,when they stopped working, it was a major effort to unscrew them.
BiD, couldn’t it have always been worse if you lived through it? What a bunch of shit. Words uttered by people who were warm, clean and fed or just idiots. IMHO ONLY people who experienced the worst of this or that have standing to say such things.
“Such an interesting experiment on board is a device designed to convert carbon monoxide into oxygen. If that works humans can live there! “
craig, and if they tweak the device a tad to convert carbon dioxide to oxygen maybe humans can also live here.
i’ve seen mosquitos in Florida that look like ms. mimi’s Ingenuity. it also resembles mayflies. wonder if they were her inspiration.
Fuck living on Mars let’s us try to live in South of Dallas.
We are not all moving to Mars.
There are no 7-11’s on Mars.
Patd –
It is wonderful design , you missed it . Water spiders , so light they walk on water .
It’s a game of weight vs horse power,
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/greg-abbott-winter-storm/Greg Abbott is still just so animated about the power debacle, in a way that he just was not when he gave COVID pressers last spring.
The best album ever made ……….
A One Shot Wonder !
The bed rock ideas of the right are as dead as Rush. Their theory about government is dead in Texas.
Black History –
Almost every Supreme Court judge before 1860 owned slaves.
God am I so sad I can not watch another 71 years. The fate of mankind. And I’ll be dead.
Texas is still pumping gas to hell to burn that fat bastard in hell.
He made $5oo Million , and our nation was torn apart.
My entire theory about the American Right –
If Rush , and Ann had a date to the prom , this would be a better world.
Being a fat asshole , and vomiting bitch makes it really hard to get a date.
Slow down Old, I’m getting alerts from spam filter. I now have to manually approve your posts and would rather go to bed.
before I sink into the big sleep , I want to hear the scream of the butterfly.
So does it have soil???
OM – Listen to something calming like Stan Getz & João Gilberto and get some sleep.
…he’s just making my “slow-burn” punchlines that much funnier.
i should have borrowed money from xrep, damnit! #hindsight20/20
After trawling a shitload of obits trying to confirm my suspicions, a while back, i can tell you that COVID has killed a lot of accomplished, benevolent people that were assets to their communities
headline from the future:
”Martian Parents Lobby for School Vouchers, Citing Liberal Bias in Martian School Curricula”
“Martian Epidemiologists Determine Majority of Covid-57 Transmission Happens in Polycarbonate Domes”
“Stray Gunfire over Parking Dispute Depressurizes Entire Mars Colony, No Survivors”
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