sikacz wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:56 pm
Damn that’s cool! Take that elon. While elon is improving on work before him, it’s not anything that our public funds could not have achieved through NASA. I wish I could go and design a town on Mars. The idea and exploration of what living would be is just mind boggling. It would truly be a new world.
Nobody's stopping you! I mean, nobody's paying you either. But that shouldn't deter you in the slightest.
I mean, Elon's going to steal anything you publish, but that still shouldn't deter you.
lurker wrote:
and so far as we know, no indigenous life forms to disposess. of course, if your life support fails, you're toast.
Nobody thinks to do this incrementally. Prove the tech in Antarctica, or at least the Canadian Archipelago. Jan Mayen Land. South Georgia. One of the less-habitable Aleutians. Take your pick. If anyone was serious about doing it properly - including NASA - we'd make damn sure it worked first.
Bisbee wrote:
That little guy is seriously cute. I wish as CD said they could use this drone as a blower to dust off the solar panels on the other rovers. But they’re probably on the other side of the planet or sumthin.
Curiosity and Perseverance don't need a blower, because thermoisotope generators. NASA got lucky with dust devils sweeping the panels off for Spirit and Opportunity. Insight has not been so fortunate. A portable fan would have been a better investment than the mole.