[PLUG-TALK] Mars lander Curiousity, OMSI Sunday Night Aug 5

[Ronald Chmara]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> Sunday is Astronomy Day at OMSI, http://www.omsi.edu/node/3420
>
> The Curiousity Mars Rover lands at 1030pm Sunday, and OMSI is
> opening the doors at 9pm for live coverage from JPL.  Or as
> live as it gets with a 15 minute ping time to Mars.
>
> The landing is one of the most elaborate kludges I've ever seen.
> It will be a miracle if it works.

They lost me at the "sky-crane" portion of the landing. Too many
points of untested technology, let alone autonomous untested
technology.

I'm going with "it'll be a miracle if we learn anything new from this".

For those who haven't been following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s

-Ronabop