Mars helicopter Ingenuity unlocks its rotor blades

[AProudLefty]

Mars helicopter Ingenuity unlocks its rotor blades to prepare for 1st flight on Red Planet

Don't be so afraid to spread your wings, Mars baby bird. You are ready to fly.

Ginny is getting ready to go for a spin!

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has unlocked its two rotor blades as preparations continue for the vehicle's first flight, due to occur no earlier than Sunday (April 11).

"The blades of glory, aka rotor blades of the #MarsHelicopter, have been unlocked and are ready for testing," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California wrote in a tweet posted early today (April 8). "Next, we'll do a slow-speed spin-up of the blades for the first time on the Martian surface."

Glorious. Most excellent. Bogus!

Riff raff guitars playing in the background.

Have a most excellent adventure, Ingenuity.

What is your favorite rock n roll music for this? I know I am deaf and being ironic but I'd pick Led Zeppelin. Dunno if they have guitar solo.

 

[AProudLefty]

Actually I mean Lynyrd Skynyrd. That would be ironic indeed.

 

[AProudLefty]

HAH!

 

[Hawkeye10]

Interest in this Mars mission is clearly thin in the Mind Molding community. I am beginning how much of that is due to the fact that the Revolution is deeply hostile towards science.

 

[AProudLefty]

Interest in this Mars mission is clearly thin in the Mind Molding community. I am beginning how much of that is due to the fact that the Revolution is deeply hostile towards science.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Let's see how much interest there is here at JPP. I suspect very few will turn up excited.

 

[AProudLefty]

Let's see how much interest there is here at JPP. I suspect very few will turn up excited.

Obviously you are excited.

 

[Commander Dutch]

Actually I mean Lynyrd Skynyrd. That would be ironic indeed.

I was thinking of something more classical. Maybe a soundtrack composer. Something old school like Ennio Moriconne or Domanic Frontierre or something new school like James Horner or Hans Zimmerman.

The Silent Film era would offer clues to something non-sound with cards of poetry superimposed over the images. A Haiku, perhaps.

https://andreabadgley.blog/2012/11/13/how-haiku-saved-me-from-a-mid-life-crisis/
Wake butterfly –
it’s late, we’ve miles
to go together.
– Basho

Example:

 

[Hawkeye10]

Obviously you are excited.

I am very interested in what drives the general lack of interest in what NASA does on MARS.

The Chinese are VERY interested in their mission however.

 

[AProudLefty]

I was thinking of something more classical. Maybe a soundtrack composer. Something old school like Ennio Moriconne or Domanic Frontierre or something new school like James Horner or Hans Zimmerman.

The Silent Film era would offer clues to something non-sound with cards of poetry superimposed over the images. A Haiku, perhaps.

https://andreabadgley.blog/2012/11/13/how-haiku-saved-me-from-a-mid-life-crisis/
Wake butterfly –
it’s late, we’ve miles
to go together.
– Basho

Example:

Nice!

 

[AProudLefty]

I am very interested in what drives the general lack of interest in what NASA does on MARS.

The Chinese are VERY interested in their mission however.

Of course we are always interested in what our enemies are doing.

 

[Commander Dutch]

Of course we are always interested in what our enemies are doing.

Agreed. Too many Americans are busy with politics, not science.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Of course we are always interested in what our enemies are doing.

You failed to track my post, you might try rereading it a few more times, your brain might click.

 

[Hawkeye10]

It could be that we are bored with machines on MARS, especially since it looks like no humans are going anytime soon. We were promised that it would happen by 1980.

 

[AProudLefty]

Agreed. Too many Americans are busy with politics, not science.

It was politics, science, paranoia and Cold War during the 60's.

 

[AProudLefty]

It could be that we are bored with machines on MARS, especially since it looks like no humans are going anytime soon. We were promised that it would happen by 1980.

We do not know if the promise made was kept or failed.

 

[Commander Dutch]

It was politics, science, paranoia and Cold War during the 60's.

Almost all American fully supported the nation and science. They'd seen the "miracle weapons" which allowed the US to win WWII and become the world's first superpower. They knew science would keep the US ahead of the Soviets and the PRC.

The vast majority of our present problems with politicizing science came after the Cold War ended. Nature abhors a vacuum and when an impetus, like the Cold War, is removed, it creates an unstable environment, a social vacuum, which must be filled.

 

[MAGA MAN]

Of course we are always interested in what our enemies are doing.

The Chinese own you; they are only enemies of Patriots.

 

[Commander Dutch]

We do not know if the promise made was kept or failed.

Most people spend more time making sure they get their entitlements than looking forward to the future of their great-grandchildren.
This is one reason why the Republicans are like Democrats.

 

[AProudLefty]

The Chinese own you; they are only enemies of Patriots.