Mars Rover

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Was just sitting here thinking about it and then decided to google some pics....what do you guys think of the Mars Rover?
Sometimes I think of how big this is...that we have something on another planet controlled by us on earth....I think of how desolate everything must be on a planet with nothing on it....
Then sometimes I think...what if this whole thing is a hoax and they are just really out in the middle of some desert taking the high res pics...
I dunno if its my mind telling me that I though Mars would be this different type of planet with strange habitats and different looking surfaces and to be honest...it doesn't look that much differen from earth....

Then this whole MARS mission that is supposed to happen in 2021.....

What do you guys think about it?
 
oh thought this was about this...

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Cherokeekid88 said:
Was just sitting here thinking about it and then decided to google some pics....what do you guys think of the Mars Rover?
Sometimes I think of how big this is...that we have something on another planet controlled by us on earth....I think of how desolate everything must be on a planet with nothing on it....
Then sometimes I think...what if this whole thing is a hoax and they are just really out in the middle of some desert taking the high res pics...
I dunno if its my mind telling me that I though Mars would be this different type of planet with strange habitats and different looking surfaces and to be honest...it doesn't look that much differen from earth....

Then this whole MARS mission that is supposed to happen in 2021.....

What do you guys think about it?
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you been drinking? :lol:
 
basic laws of physics/etc still apply there...so stuff on mars, or 1.5 billion light years from here, kind of has to follow the same rules.

That rock...makes for good talk...maybe the aliens version of going to your buddy's shop and adding a bearing to the parts laid out in the middle of a transmission rebuild. Just screwing with us. Or...it was just stuck in the tire treads and fell out right there.
 
1 light year =9.4605284 × 1015 meters
when I sit down and think about a place so far away...I think of foreign habitats, etc. kind of like...certain parts of the world...you find different animals and different plants/flowers/scenery.
 
So let me ask you this since that is such a long distance to travel. How long would it take to get there and what type of fuel source would last that long? And if they can do that why in the world is there so much hunger in the world and vehicles average crappy mpg. Just a thought.
 
Mulishajoe said:
So let me ask you this since that is such a long distance to travel. How long would it take to get there and what type of fuel source would last that long? And if they can do that why in the world is there so much hunger in the world and vehicles average crappy mpg. Just a thought.
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I ain't going anywhere. I'm sitting on my front porch 'til the end and picking off zombies if I have to.

I did figure out that with my old Wagoneer, although it only got 10.5 MPG, it sounded much better when I figured out that worked out to 21.2 lightyears per cubic mile of gasoline.
 
Mulishajoe said:
So let me ask you this since that is such a long distance to travel. How long would it take to get there and what type of fuel source would last that long? And if they can do that why in the world is there so much hunger in the world and vehicles average crappy mpg. Just a thought.
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shit... I had a hard enough time getting the tail lights to work on my 40 y/o Jeep last weekend.
 
Mulishajoe said:
A 747 at 500mph burns about 36000 gallons in 10 hrs. Food for thought.
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OK great - but its not like they use jet fuel to propel a rocket.

And... this is why any trips to Mars is a 1-way trip.
 
[quote"RatLabGuy, post: 1220468, member: 649"]OK great - but its not like they use jet fuel to propel a rocket.

And... this is why any trips to Mars is a 1-way trip.[/quote]

That Is true, but a rocket goes like 15000 mph and burns half its fuel to leave the ground so I think it would take a great deal of fuel to be able to "rocket" along for 9 months. But on the other hand you could impregnate a woman and she could give birth to the first mars baby on arrival.
 
I don't think fuel for travel is as big a problem as energy needed to survive the trip. With no atmosphere, once you make a long burn to build speed you pretty much just coast right?
 
Just send a bunch of one way rockets to Mars. Load each rocket with extra fuel. Once you stash enough extra fuel..you'll have enough to fill one rocket up for the return trip.

I know...I'm a genyus right!
 
Mulishajoe said:
That Is true, but a rocket goes like 15000 mph and burns half its fuel to leave the ground so I think it would take a great deal of fuel to be able to "rocket" along for 9 months.
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OK I'm gonna let in on a little secret.
Space is a vacuum. There is, for all practical purposes, no friction. No gravity to pull you in any direction, unless you get close to a large planetary body. Like, I don't know... the next one you come to... say Mars ?
All those videos of things just floating around in space? That's cause there's nothing to stop them.

So... I'm no rocket surgeon... but I'm about 99% sure you don't "rocket" for 9 months.
You "rocket" for about 90 seconds of OOOOOOOH MYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOD time, then basically coast for 8.9 months, then fire up the much smaller rockets getting ready for a landing.
And pray that the contractor who build the thing ... for the lowest bid... actually knew what they were doing.
 
Mulishajoe said:
@RatLabGuy very good was thinking something along those lines but didn't quite know, guess they just float and steer away from any planet with a gravitational pull.
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Or in this case - right into one!
 
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