Should I care?
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I don't know about "care", but you might or might not be interested.
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I love a bit of space exploration, but I am mindful of what's going on on the surface of this planet.
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“I don't know about "care" “
True!
I suppose I am interested on all sorts of levels.
Fascinated by the scale of excited speculation about the possibility of organisms in the presumed silt of the believed to be river beds.
Surprised at my surprise that the landing was(had) happening(ed). Obviously not been paying attention through all the talk of sending people there!
The latter plan is perhaps part of my concern - the value/point/‘morality’ of putting so much effort/scientific endeavour into such things - and why it’s being done. National or billionaires’ egotrips, colonialisation fantasies, quest for rare minerals?
All of which return thoughts to what’s needed/best for this planet. Of course things are never either/or.
Don’t suppose it would have happened without experts...
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"quest for rare minerals"
This one is that, in a way, with the eventual plan to retrieve an actual bit of Martian surface for study somewhere other than on the surface of Mars by something other than Mars' population of robots. Bits of now-earthbound deliberately-retrieved Moon would be abundant in comparison to deliberately-retrieved bits of Mars if they ever carry that off.
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I remember going to see a bit of moonrock in the central library as a child when it went on tour. It was next to the pickled octopus caught by the uncle of one of my brother's pals and I found that beast much more interesting.
Return trip to Mars would need a lot of diesel I imagine?
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i remember meeting a teenage kid in a run down town in northern russia, he had a faded nasa t-shirt on, and he proudly told me his dream ambition was to go to america and work for nasa
felt like crying for his sense of optimism
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The thing about science is that it's true even if you don't believe in it.
I am in awe of the people who can make things like the Perseverance landing happen, and in particular that they are clever enough to direct a satellite to be in the right place at the right time to take a picture of it coming down through the Martian atmosphere.
Micro-Greenroofer was quite impressed by that picture once he'd realised that it wasn't an accident that the satellite was in the right place.
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Seems to have landed in the Monadhliath.
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It landed in a big crater, didn't it? So the "mountains" are actually the walls of the crater?
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I can only watch so much Mars footage since a planet that is red dust and rock is less interesting than a trip to the park, as far as the senses are concerned.
However when I do watch it I am in awestruck wonder that human beings can do such things. I was in tears when watching the footage of the moon landings on the 50th anniversary in 1969.
The control personnel then were all men and white. Now we have a contrast in history of more women, more non-whites. And our particular time when they wear masks and fist and elbow bump instead of hugging, as is natural these days.
Whatever you think of our age, this is one extraordinary achievement.
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