scigeek42

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   by scigeek42 10y ago

   Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/463/
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   by scigeek42 10y ago

   In that case, couldn't they just coat the finger with the same stuff they're coating the 3D printed replica with? Actually, how are they getting around the RF issue?
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   by scigeek42 10y ago

   I have to ask the morbid question, why couldn't they use the dead man's fingers directly?
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   by scigeek42 10y ago

   Wouldn't it be awesome if future Mars science missions had a nice, constant landing platform they could design around? Like a new rover or stationary science base would just be "one Dragon unit of cargo".
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   by scigeek42 10y ago

   Ars has really been getting into the whole Red Dragon mission this past week. I am very hopeful this is a sign of things to come. Namely a greater media focus on advances in space exploration, which hopefully leads to a greater "buy-in
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   by scigeek42 11y ago

   In the book it describes how the difficulty with the calculation came from the fact that they were continuously firing the spacecraft thrusters (it was some form of drive that used a constant small acceleration). Thus far most all of our pr