On a sunny day (Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:03:25 -0800 (PST)) it happened Fred Bloggs <
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote in <
56b7b2ae-1941-4cf9-8290-f2dec164f87an@googlegroups.com>:
On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 12:58:36 PM UTC-5, john larkin wrote=
:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:43:10 -0500, Joe Gwinn <joeg...@comcast.net>
wrote:
It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary =
than
we knew - Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA
deep space missions combined. by Eric Berger - Jan 29, 2024 1:45 am
.<https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/now-that-weve-flown-on-mars-what= >-comes-next-in-aerial-planetary-exploration/>
Joe Gwinn
It was an expensive PR stunt, mostly.
What value is all that compute power on Mars? We can do computing
here.
NASA could be lying about the reliability to deceive the Russians and Chine= >se into following suit and having their expensive lander glitch out and fai= >l.
There will be Chinese restaurants on Mars long before the first 'merrican lands there
and has to pay for landing rights and food in Chinese currency :-)
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