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Posted: 2/26/2021 8:42:54 AM EDT
[#1]
proxy war on Mars now?
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Posted: 2/26/2021 8:59:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thought the same thing. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Interesting timing. Thought the same thing. The launch timings are based on the orbits of Mars and Earth as they go around the sun. It takes a few years before the planets are in conjunction. That's why if people ever go there they are stuck a few years at minimum before they can possibly return. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 9:07:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Interesting timing. Not really The orbits of Earth and Mars at time of launch provided the most efficient window. 8th grade science stuff |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 9:42:58 AM EDT
[#4]
Battle bots for the Mars champion!
Pay per view March 5. ?? |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 9:46:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/26/2021 9:49:53 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I hope it explodes on impact. 
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Posted: 2/26/2021 9:50:55 AM EDT
[#7]
ROBOWARS!!!!
engage! |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 9:53:44 AM EDT
[#8]
We need to pew pew this POS into a dissipating debris cloud.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:16:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So multiple countries can launch probes to Mars. That's great. But where is my giant robot suit? Or even powered armor? Or my jetpack? Or, preferably, my flying powered armor that I can wear while piloting my giant robot suit which is also equipped with a jet pack? I am so disappointed with the direction technology has taken.  "That's a negative ghostrider, the pattern is full." |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:17:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I hope it explodes on impact. Might be a feature. Aim it at the US one and boom! |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:18:25 AM EDT
[#11]
We should blow it up with our rover.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:19:38 AM EDT
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I hope after we get enough footage with out new drone we Kamakaze our drone into that Chinesium piece of shit.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:22:11 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I hope it explodes on impact. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:37:13 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We should blow it up with our rover. With Lazors. Use the Rover helicopter to video it. America! Fuck yeah! |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:09:24 AM EDT
[#15]
As opposed to Percy, which had no parking orbit while it fine tuned where it was going to land for weeks...
Percy basically went from launch straight to Jezero crater, a pre-planned 2 kilometer circle where it picked the best spot using it's on-board computer, then landed exactly where it was supposed to. To hell with all the dithering and fine tuning everyone else has to do. A lot of people don't grasp what an achievement this lander was. This was the equivalent of a hole in one from 700 yards out in a varying cross wind and the hole was on a 45 degree slope. Nick |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:22:44 AM EDT
[#16]
The Martians will get the rice rabies, get all pissed off at at the humans and see it as a first strike, and this will be what brings on the Independence Day style Martian attack.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:32:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If they verify life, past or present, then every mother fucker at NASA needs to be fired. Why would you believe anything coming from China? They'll just lie about all the great shit their rover is finding on Mars to make commie China seem better than the U.S. even if the fucker crashes and burns. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:36:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:42:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As opposed to Percy, which had no parking orbit while it fine tuned where it was going to land for weeks... Percy basically went from launch straight to Jezero crater, a pre-planned 2 kilometer circle where it picked the best spot using it's on-board computer, then landed exactly where it was supposed to. To hell with all the dithering and fine tuning everyone else has to do. A lot of people don't grasp what an achievement this lander was. This was the equivalent of a hole in one from 700 yards out in a varying cross wind and the hole was on a 45 degree slope. Nick I agree, I think a lot of people don't understand that Perseverance came in at interplanetary velocity. No stopping to drop into orbit around Mars first. Just drilled right in, and landed 5 meters away from the "official" landing site. And it did it all autonomously, the light lag from Mars to Earth prevented anything remotely resembling "real time" control of the probe and lander. The video of the chute deployment at supersonic speed, dropping the heat shield, then lowering the lander from the hovering rocket crane was amazing. Landing on Mars is a bitch. Enough atmosphere you have to deal with it via heat shields and a chute, but at the same time the 1% of Earth density means you hardly get any of the advantages either. I wish I could time travel and show all of that to the Viking lander team. It would blow their minds. (We lower the rover from the rocket crane while it's hovering...) We are reaping benefits from improved computer tech for sure. My fingers are crossed the James Webb Space Telescope is as much of a success. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:44:53 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I hope it explodes on impact. Or even better, disintegrates on atmospheric entry. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:48:32 AM EDT
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Does Perseverance have anything that can be used as a weapon?
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:50:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does Perseverance have anything that can be used as a weapon? Maybe it could fashion some sort of rudimentary lathe? |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 12:02:26 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In before the Chinese steal American mars rover technology. Wouldn't that be fucked up. China probe disables US probe and then goes about the Chinese exploration. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 12:05:04 PM EDT
[#24]
Now the poor Martians are going to get the rona
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Posted: 2/26/2021 12:07:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Now the poor Martians are going to get the rona They are totally going to misunderstand what the Chinese book “To Serve Martians” is really about.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 12:31:22 PM EDT
[#26]
UAE Has a Mars probe?
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Posted: 2/26/2021 12:41:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does Perseverance have anything that can be used as a weapon? Yes, it has a laser.  https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8601/all-about-the-laser-and-microphone-atop-mars-2020-nasas-next-rover/ And it's powerful enough to vaporize bits of rock. I bet it could vaporize bits of Chicom rover too. A few dozen pulses could probably cut a wire or something important. Although the Chinese rover is pretty small in comparison. Perseverance could probably just run over it. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:00:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Two weeks. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So multiple countries can launch probes to Mars. That's great. But where is my giant robot suit? Or even powered armor? Or my jetpack? Or, preferably, my flying powered armor that I can wear while piloting my giant robot suit which is also equipped with a jet pack? I am so disappointed with the direction technology has taken. Two weeks. 
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:14:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's not a joke, it's just a waste of money. No argument from me on your point. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:18:18 PM EDT
[#30]
If it were to enter an unexpected lithobraking maneuver, I wouldn't shed a tear about it....
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:19:15 PM EDT
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In before China declares Mars sovereign Chinese territory.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:30:34 PM EDT
[#32]
US and China should do PPV Battle Bots on Mars.
That would be a massive flex on the rest of the world. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:34:23 PM EDT
[#33]
I guess the technology they stole from us works very well.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:36:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does Perseverance have anything that can be used as a weapon? The drone maybe. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:39:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The drone maybe. So far the drones on Battlebots havent been very effective. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:56:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I hope it explodes on impact. We should roll up on it and do a drive by |
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