On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 11/26/2018 3:02 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/26/18 2:58 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/26/2018 2:56 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website ....
scheduled to land at 3pm EST.


WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars.

All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon
shirts...



You should have offered to hitch a ride on the spacecraft so you could
watch it land in person.



I was going to, but I heard that the Orange Menace was onboard...


It's really an amazing feat considering all the challenges.
Long range communications have certainly improved since the
earlier landings on Mars. They had an image within a few minutes
after landing.


I really think this should be the science we do. These days the robot
probes are giving much more information than we would get from guys on
the ground there and at a much lower cost. Basically that means we can
do a **** load more probes with much higher payloads because they
don't need to carry life support and they don't need to come back.
If a robot probe blows up, we just build another one and move on. If
we kill a live crew the whole space program is paralyzed for years.
Manned space flight is pretty much just a publicity stunt.