It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.
hugging is very risky @ work in US
First Flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]
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#52It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.
I agree, the one person who was excited looked like she stifled herself because the energy in the room was so low. Considering what they just achieved, and how much work they put into the project... I mean, we celebrate more when we have a successful sprint.
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#53It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.
It made me sad too.
All these brilliant minds working for so long and accomplishing so much... Just for a clap and cheer, yet tommorow they have to do it all again in the rat race. Yet cryptokings are basking in glory for a lifetime.
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#54It made me so sad seeing them cheering and clapping, but not getting up and hugging each other :( So much happiness without the ability to vent it. Such a historical moment.
Funny. When I watched that sequence, I was thinking the opposite. That the length of the clapping and cheering would be "too much" for me. I imagined myself being in that room. I probably would have beed very happy, smiling and showing a "thumbs up" sign or something. But I would not clap or cheer. And I certainly would not want to be hugged by some scientist next to me :) How do other engineers here on HN feel about…
If I just got a helicopter up and running on another planet? I'd be hugging everybody.
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#55Cool! I wonder why balloons have not been used much on other planets? Is it the weight of the gas? The USSR had the the Vega 1 and 2 balloons on Venus, but presumably further missions could be pretty useful for studying planetary atmospheres, even for gas giants.
The gas has to be lighter than the atmosphere of the target planet. For planets with very thin atmospheres or planets with mostly-hydrogen atmospheres, that is hard to achieve. That leaves basically Venus and maybe Titan?
Actually, on Mars it's relatively easy to have a gas be lighter than the atmosphere; the atmosphere is mostly CO2, so most common gases, including nitrogen, are lighter than it. The problem is that since the air is very thin, you don't get much lift for a given volume. So for Mars you need a very big balloon, but it can be filled with almost anything.
(Side note: balloons have actually been used on Venus already, on the Vega missions!)
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#56There is a really good explanation of this machine on Veritasium:
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#58Well this changes the whole plot to The Martian if he can just get Domino's delivered.
Might be cold by the time it gets there though
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#59Well this changes the whole plot to The Martian if he can just get Domino's delivered.
There’s a Korean food delivery commercial with just that theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGtK41Wj3o
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
A little video editing would be nice. It's almost like NASA doesn't realize many people watch these videos. I like watching behind the sceen stuff, but I also want NASA to come off in the best light. The video had a production value of a subpar PBS late night video. NASA has a duty to promote the agency too. There's a PR value to everything, especially when using public money. (I want to give NASA more funds some day…
Would you rather want these funds to be spent on PR team and video editing or on missions?
I'd rather NASA had the funds for a little production value.
You can make the same whataboutist argument for why we shouldn't even be on Mars.