I saw a video on tiktok a girl uploaded of her dad who was somehow involved in the project. His reaction to the successful landing was so emotional I found myself a little envious. Like the dude had just won the Super Bowl of tech. And didn’t he? What a feeling, congrats to everyone involved!
Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
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Re: Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
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That's how Trump got it, then spread it.
Can you provide any evidence that Trump spread the virus to anyone?
You're obviously trolling since you're pretending you don't already know. He spread it to millions of Americans, by lying about it and encouraging his followers not to wear masks, not to mention all his sycophants who caught it by licking his boots. Are you one of them?
Re: Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
#513You can also watch an EDL visualization in your browser: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/#/home And read about how it will use Terrain Relative Navigation to find a safe landing spot: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/a-neil-armstrong-for-mars-land... Perseverance is phenomenally complex, its Sample Caching System alone contains 3,000+ parts and two robotic arms. So exited for all the sciencing this nuclear-powered,…
> And read about how it will use Terrain Relative Navigation to find a safe landing spot: So basically TERCOM from cruise missles but used on space crafts? All you need is a radar countour map of the area and it can automate it's way to the endzone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
Not at all.
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> accents closer to the mean accent of native speakers Notice that, for the case of English, most speakers are not native, by a huge margin! Native English speakers are a biased minority, and with a lot of variation within. Not sure that an "average native" accent is a useful concept at all. I, for one, tend to find most non-native English speakers vastly easier to understand than many native speakers.
> Notice that, for the case of English, most speakers are not native, by a huge margin! I'm well aware, and this does not rebut any of my points. > I, for one, tend to find most non-native English speakers vastly easier to understand than many native speakers. That "many" native speakers in a language of hundreds of millions of speakers are hard to understand does not challenge the claim that a non-native accent brou…
What is the "mean native accent" for English? Would it be possible to somehow synthesise that? I'd love to hear what it sounds like!
Re: Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
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I’m amazed that people still say things like “de-accent” as if there was such a thing as “no accent”. You are asking for a button that makes his French accent more like your own. It’s a separate thing from native vs. non-native speakers - there are plenty of native English speakers with accents that you would also find challenging.
You are reading something into my comment that wasn't there in order to pick a boring fight. There is of course no such thing as no accent a priori, but there is such a thing as "accents understood by (vastly) more people" and "accents closer to the mean accent of native speakers". When I learn Russian, my English accent is not on the same footing as a Muscovite's; the intended notion of "de-accenting" the English ac…
I responded to the part of the comment that I had a response to, and I didn't mean any kind of hostility, much less to pick any kind of fight.
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#516Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you provide any evidence that Trump spread the virus to anyone?
You're obviously trolling since you're pretending you don't already know. He spread it to millions of Americans, by lying about it and encouraging his followers not to wear masks, not to mention all his sycophants who caught it by licking his boots. Are you one of them?
"He spread it to them" means that he physically transmitted it to them. He did not. Pointing out your misuse of the English language does not make me a sycophant.
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The skycrane system is just SO COOL. It's also one of those things that is super easy to explain but incredibly difficult to actually construct, let alone have it work well after flying all the way to Mars.
i can't believe it works. Those thrusters making all that turbulence and racket. Then the cables have to unwind without getting tangled and at the same rate. Then, finally, at the end, they have to detach the cables and fly away. It's pretty nuts.
ropes detached using a small wedge driven by explosive to cut cable.