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We've had the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261806 A cessna would need wings as large as a 747 and be traveling about mach 1 to take off, iirc.
Mach 1 where?
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Eh, we have other things as well. Meat for one. ;) Maybe you could say that we are meaty pattern matching engines.
Who said computers couldn't be made out of meat?
Saying that humans are pattern matching engines seems equivalent to saying VW Bugs are internal combustion engines to me though.
Pardon my idiotic question, but why don't they just drive over there and check them out? Or are they just in a totally different place than the rover (like asking why someone in North America can't just hop over and check out Uluru)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)
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It really does. However, one should keep in mind that humans have overzealous pattern-matching engines. We are really good at erroneously seeing things that we recognize.
And when it comes to Martian geography, we are hopelessly bad at judging scale. It's very easy to be several orders of magnitude off without a guide or legend.
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Eh, we have other things as well. Meat for one. ;) Maybe you could say that we are meaty pattern matching engines.
Who said computers couldn't be made out of meat?
Pardon my idiotic question, but why don't they just drive over there and check them out? Or are they just in a totally different place than the rover (like asking why someone in North America can't just hop over and check out Uluru)?