PZ posted this and it’s amazing. It also makes me nervous just to watch, I’ll probably be a gelatinous mass of conflicting nerve impulses in August when it happens.
Jun 26 2012
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julial
June 26, 2012 at 9:00 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Respect
I’ve spent 20 years as a MechE designing and building machines.
Wow. This is magic in the AC Clarke sense.
Best wishes to the designers and builders.
OK, wishing didn’t get you this far, but what else can I say? Good luck? No. My prayers are with you? No.
HAPPY LANDINGS!!!!
Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew
June 26, 2012 at 10:56 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I thought the engineers did a good job of admitting, yes, this looks like a Rube Goldberg contraption, but it’s what the technology vs demand converged on.
yellowsubmarine
June 26, 2012 at 11:49 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
That is badass. If we get that craziness to sucessfully land on mars in one piece, I will be damned impressed with where our automated technology has gotten.
a miasma of incandescent plasma
June 26, 2012 at 2:54 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Best wishes to the designers and builders.
OK, wishing didn’t get you this far, but what else can I say? Good luck? No. My prayers are with you? No.
HAPPY LANDINGS!!!!
How about “Continue showcasing and improving the human ingenuity quotient!”??
josephmccauley
June 26, 2012 at 3:27 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I’m 59 years old. I’m pumped! I get the same feeling as I did when they first walked on the Moon!
davidmc
June 26, 2012 at 6:04 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Will we get to see it “live”, as it were, anywhere?
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