• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The combination of technologies that made this possible is really mind bending.

    Without a human ever setting foot on Mars, we can identify and solve the physics of flight in a new atmosphere on the first try.

    The idea of a drone that can swim below the ice in the oceans of Europa doesn’t seem that far fetched any more.

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          10 months ago

          “Leave a little slack in the line to account for the different orbital periods. Yeah, about 300,000,000 miles ahould do it…”

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            10 months ago

            I had a really long Lan cable that let us play in different rooms. It’s buried in a closet, but if nasa really needs it I could dig that out