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Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane

Posted by kdawson on from the rocket-science dept.

An anonymous reader points us to Gizmodo for a fascinating video of NASA's Sky Crane. "When I read that the UFO-looking Mars Science Laboratory's aeroshell would use a floating crane — called Sky Crane by NASA — to softly land the rover on Mars, I couldn't believe it. Now, watching this hyper-realistic NASA simulation, I still can't believe how the whole thing works. I don't know about you, but the whole operation mesmerizes me to no end."

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  1. WTF: The Incredibles? by Ostracus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Geeks having sex is awesome! :)

    --
    Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
  2. Re:Mars? Bah. Just another Athiest Myth! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ATHIEST MOM: Hi, honey! I'm pregnant again. I guess I'll just get another abortion, since "fetuses don't count as human life."
    ATHIEST DAD: Okay, get as many abortions as you want!

    Of course. My daughters shouldn't be punished with a baby.

    RANDOM ATHIEST: Damn you, Christian! We hate you! We claim to be tolerant of all religions. But we really hate your's! That's because we athiests are hypocritical like that! Die, Christian!

    Of course. They are bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.

    Thanks to them cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.