Video of the day -- Perseverance
Amid the negativity that tends to dominate the news, never forget that humans also achieve things. Consider the mastery of technology and mathematics shown by this perfect landing of a complex machine on another world tens of millions of miles away -- and by the exploratory work which that machine will carry out on our behalf in the months and years to come, seeking evidence of past or present life in the alien desert. If only Galileo and Newton could have seen this! Mission site here.
posted by Infidel753 at 3:37 AM
13 Comments:
So cool!
An amazing feat and what intelligent reasonable people can achieve.
Oh, I loved this!
I actually watched it on youtube. So fantastic.
XOXO
Kick ass video! ... yeah, talking about mileage ... like 132.2 million. It's incredible that regular folks can view this with such high definition, etc ... thinking about Galileo ... I mean, for him it would be mind blowing, like a lifelong dream come true to see this ....
It was truly amazing and a welcome change to the usual news we all see day after day. Oh by the way, are you sure that the landing wasn't really just "fake news?" Sorry! I couldn't help myself. My fingers sometimes have a mind of their own!
What I actually thought when I watched it was about all the money that is wasted on insignificant things when it could be invested into worthy and important things such as any scientific on humanitarian related issue i.e. space exploration.
In my opinion (always humble and rarely requested), we've wasted the last 50 years on creating a world that mostly seems to look inwards rather than looking outwards. It makes me wonder where "curiosity" went or if it became a dirty word somewhere along the way. Thank you for this thought-provoking post. My brain has been in desperate need of activity.
Oh, what an age we live in!
Looking forward to what it can find!
Thrilling! Gave me chills to watch.
Yes; I’m sure Galileo and Newton would have been thrilled. And the video made me think of Hayley Arceneaux: a physician assistant who survived bone cancer in childhood and will become an astronaut on the first all-civilian space mission. What bravery!
watched it happened in real life.
Awesome - that was so cool.
I've been watching the videos and seeing the pictures and think it's just awesome to get pictures from Mars.
Not just Galileo and Newton--I also wish that Sagan, Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, and Clarke could have seen this (and maybe H.G. Welles and Edgar Rice Burroughs!)!
This is just so cool! Had to call my husband to look at it too.
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