Daniel PomarèdeCuriosity: 4844th day of the mission
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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Scale TheoryThis is the best of the best for the cost of this tire?
NASA, you're fired. WE were ripped off, but fleeced by the oligarchy with too much and gas people who don't need another "dollar" for the rest of their lives.
Ann EffesBuilding a rover is like building a race car: Spend a fortune on making everything as light as possible, and by “possible” I mean: light enough to last just long enough. If it lasts LONGER, it wasn’t lightweight enough. Because transporting mass to Mars is incredibly expensive, making things lighter is therefore the first step to saving money. And after all, the component has exceeded its planned service life by a factor of 7.
So indeed suboptimal: Still too sturdy.
Yeah yeah, got it, but this is still the best of the best? Wow, okay next excuse.
Seems a wheel from a lawnmower/shopping cart (made lighter with the most expensive metals/plastic) would last longer.
How about putting what was wasted in research for anti-magravity/ion/alternatives or just half/quarter/eighth of what CERN has spent.
Common sense, its societies new superpower. Rockets don't even make sense worried about weight.
"How about putting what was wasted in research for anti-magravity/ion/alternatives or just half/quarter/eighth of what CERN has spent."
So you want to divert money from research to send unnecessary stuff to Mars?
And you call that common sense?
Oookay.
@Ann_Effes
"So you want to divert money from research to send unnecessary stuff to Mars?"
Nope, money diverted to research that makes sense.
At what point do they give up on CERN, trillions, quad, a googolplex of cash? There is a better way to try, the sun doesn't do what they think if they can't copy the experiment.
CERN is financed with about 1 Billion swiss franks per Year.
And if I had to choose between CERN and bringing dead wight to mars - I would choose CERN any day.
(Reading your post, I get the impression that you think CERN is conducting research on nuclear fusion. But that’s not the case—or only to a very limited extent. I would agree that it is unnecessary to invest money in nuclear fusion research. We ALREADY HAVE solutions to that problem—and they're cheap, such as PV e.g.)
You have everything incorrect, I must not have typed correctly from mind to paper for you.
Sure.
What you might want to consider, though, is what you hope to achieve with your posts. Do you want to communicate with other people? If so, you might want to adjust your writing style a bit to make it easier for others to understand.
If your goal is to post content that comes across as clever and funny to people who share your exact cultural and linguistic background, then of course that’s not necessary.
I was being nice. Most all people know CERN isn't for fusion. Maybe you want to sharpen your comprehension of sentences better.
Goal? I had an opinion, you didn't like it ignoring common sense.
I'm convinced there are no more good people in the world!
Okay, let me try again:
The problem is not that you may have an opinion which I don't like, the problem is, I don't even get what you opinion IS.
Somehow, we just don't click when it comes to language. And since you don't seem to understand me either, it seems to be a two-way street.
Although English isn’t my native language, I usually have little trouble following conversations, so this surprises me a bit.
For the sake of simplicity, I therefore suggest we end this here.
@Ann_Effes
"The problem is not that you may have an opinion which I don't like, the problem is, I don't even get what you opinion IS."
Let's define your goal when you knew exactly how a shopping cart wheel wouldn't work due to it's size, width and what it will be fitting on conclusion.
You're pathetic, can I say that as an opinion? That okay with you? What's your goal, telling people how to be? You achieve it or not?
As I said. I don't get what you even want to say.
Again: Let's end this.
Have a nice day. (No sarcasm)
Know the benefits if we had some form of anti-gravity? Huge saving in so many fields of work. Money WELL SPENT, better than velcro or GPS from NASA.
Well… I don’t know.
Anything successfully shielded by a “gravity shield” would be accelerated upward with considerable force. Such an object or person would suddenly weigh less than the air around them and therefore rise up and "surface" (like a ping-pong ball underwater) until it or they reached the upper limit of the atmosphere—wherever that may be.
Once you activate your anti-grav-belt - you are dead.
(I do get that you where not dead serious here)