Perhaps Creationists may be better than Conservative Christian or the mis- maligned Evangelical Christian.
Your exposure to Christianity seems to be to the uneducated sector. Many of the most intelligent people I know are Evangelical Christians. (I lived in Pasadena, and many of my friends were Christian Cal-Tech Alumns) This includes one of the Head Engineers on the Mars Pathfinder and Spirit/Opportunity projects.
Read Jennifer Harris Trosper's bio on NASA. (OK Jen is an MIT Alumn asociated with CalTech through JPL)
I was a good friend of Jen's back '91 through '94.
I am a bit surprised by your clumsy use of "dominations". What you seem to be talking about is categories of Christians. Some categories overlap others (e.g. left handed Christians, and Christian Artists)
Denominations normally refer to a body of governance, or an official association of churches. Denominations generally do not overlap, but there are often historic sub-divisions that look much like a genetic map. (It is actually meme-etic map)
Many Christian Scientists are not threatened by Space or life on other planets.
Not that it should matter, but I no longer consider myself a Christian, but I often defend Christianity against misinformed and biased attacks.
"All and all, I don't understand why a range of microscopes has not been standard issue on all Mars lander missions."
My guess is:
Weight
Size
Power (which increases Weight & Size)
Perhaps, one reason the we didn't hear "The Beagle has landed" is that they tried to load too much on it.
"Spirit" and "Opportunity" are led by the same people that landed pathfinder. It is NOT the same team that slammed a craft into Mars because they did not check the units of measurement.
We'll see in a couple of weeks, but this team is is 2:2 and will be at worst is 2:3 or at best 3:3.
Yeah it would be nice if it had more instruments, but it's better that it survived.
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And in an unrelated story, NASA rover finds oil on Mars.
Your exposure to Christianity seems to be to the uneducated sector. Many of the most intelligent people I know are Evangelical Christians. (I lived in Pasadena, and many of my friends were Christian Cal-Tech Alumns) This includes one of the Head Engineers on the Mars Pathfinder and Spirit/Opportunity projects. Read Jennifer Harris Trosper's bio on NASA. (OK Jen is an MIT Alumn asociated with CalTech through JPL) I was a good friend of Jen's back '91 through '94.
I am a bit surprised by your clumsy use of "dominations". What you seem to be talking about is categories of Christians. Some categories overlap others (e.g. left handed Christians, and Christian Artists)
Denominations normally refer to a body of governance, or an official association of churches. Denominations generally do not overlap, but there are often historic sub-divisions that look much like a genetic map. (It is actually meme-etic map)
Many Christian Scientists are not threatened by Space or life on other planets.
Not that it should matter, but I no longer consider myself a Christian, but I often defend Christianity against misinformed and biased attacks.
My guess is:
Weight
Size
Power (which increases Weight & Size)
Perhaps, one reason the we didn't hear "The Beagle has landed" is that they tried to load too much on it. "Spirit" and "Opportunity" are led by the same people that landed pathfinder. It is NOT the same team that slammed a craft into Mars because they did not check the units of measurement.
We'll see in a couple of weeks, but this team is is 2:2 and will be at worst is 2:3 or at best 3:3. Yeah it would be nice if it had more instruments, but it's better that it survived.
My DirecTV Tivo will not record music stations. Standard Video/Audio input Tivos should work fine.
NASA has already successfully tested laser powered flight.