re: NASA's InSight Mars Lander Touches Down Today - Touchdown Confirmed!!

Touching down today

Drill baby drill. I want some ethanol-free waiting when we get there.

insight going ball deep into that martian soil, we aint askin we doin

Watching live on NASA TV. Damn interesting.

Would be cool to see it crash

Just watched the video on how this sucker is landing. Damn a lot of things need to happen...splitting the lander from the probe, supersonic parachute, dropping the heat shield, dropping from the parachute structure and firing blasters, landing upright and not having the parachute structure hit it...damn.

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Just watched the video on how this sucker is landing. Damn a lot of things need to happen...splitting the lander from the probe, supersonic parachute, dropping the heat shield, dropping from the parachute structure and firing blasters, landing upright and not having the parachute structure hit it...damn.

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Yep we know it works though because they’ve done it before (the Elvis guy and dude with the Mohawk at mission control became famous after pulling it off)


edit: these guys

I've got the feed going (public, there's also educators and media ones). LINK

6 months to get there is pretty cool in itself. I wonder what that would need to be cut down to to start making that feasible for people to make the travel.

There's some really young folks in that room. I feel pretty confident in saying they're smarter than I am.

I like the voiceover from the woman in the room, but everyone there is going "no shite, I know all this".