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Originally posted by weedwhacker
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Phoenix successfully landed on Mars.
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Not be remote control, but by 'incredible technology' that you insist is impossible.
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So, now go away and study....go to school, maybe take a course in English while you're studying physics and astrometrics and other aerospace disciplines.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Big-Brain
Big minus, what the heck is wrong with you??????
If you can't understand the difference between a computer-generated visual simulation (to convey, to an audience, what is likely happening...happened) then you will NEVER comprehend!!!!!!
Big minus, there is no bloody camera on Mars to watch the Phoenix land....it has to be shown, in a simulation.
Big minus, the pictures from the Phoenix lander are already being transmitted. They can be viewed right here on ATS!!!
What a shame, you waste your 'big brain' on nonsense....I say it again, go out and learn for a change!!! Please???/
[edit on 2-6-2008 by Big-Brain]
Originally posted by darkbluesky
I don't understand why you think landing vertically with reverse thrust is so impossible.
[yvidwww.youtube.com...&hl[/yvid]
Or why testing a SPACECRAFT in the Earths atmosphere and gravity field makes any sense!
Originally posted by darkbluesky
I don't understand why you think landing vertically with reverse thrust is so impossible.
[yvidwww.youtube.com...&hl[/yvid]
Or why testing a SPACECRAFT in the Earths atmosphere and gravity field makes any sense!
Scientists in the Norwegian island of Svalbard use sensitive instruments to detect simple life forms in a frigid and dry arctic environment. (Image credit: NASA)
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Big-Brain
B- Brain, you truly are fancying yourself a comdian now, aren't you?
Two 'external images', the fisrt from the 1960s of an actual concept vehicle, then the second a frame from a computer simulation of the Phoenix lander!!!
The first pic, again....a PHOTOGRAPH!!! The other, of the Phoenix....CGI
Is it true that you actually cannot tell the difference?
Seriously,,,,can you not tell the difference?
Have you been to the movies lately? I mean, motion pictures, at your local cinema. They are doing some incredible CGI work....but not anytime before the 1990s. And certainly not in any way possiblity to render CGI in the 1960s!!!! Is that when you were born? The 1960s, or was it more like the 1990s?
Perhaps you grew up on modern films, and think that CGI has always been around...it has not.
Even 'Star Wars' (1977) did not use CGI....just actual models, filmed, with optical effects added in....animated, rotoscoped....CGI did not existed in 1977, except in the dreams of computer nerds. Actually, home computers didn't even exist in 1977....
So, your allegations that the LLRV was somehow faked just don't hold any water. It was not possible to render such incredibly photo-realistic images in the 1960s. Even the Phoenix simulation isn't photo-realistic!!!! It is conceptual, to describe the lander's operation, as it re-entered and landed. There was certainly no camera there, on Mars, to record the event.
Compare to the widely distributed video of Apollo 17's LM lift-off from the Moon. Filmed....(well, videoed, actually, and transmitted to Earth) as it happened.
If you wish to continue embarrassing yourself, then I'll make the popcorn, and we can all sit back and continued to be amused by nonsense as we watch your 'show'.
On the other hand, it would be incredibly satisfying if you did better investigative research and took the time to do some real learning....
Originally posted by mattguy404
What the.. This is the biggest bunch of ranting tomfoolery yet.
I think the animations are pretty awesome. I was board at uni last week and put this little montage of the animations together:
www.youtube.com...
But I have seen the lander being tested on TV. Why would they fake something like this?
What do you mean NASA can't make a probe to 'land backwards'? The same landing was done with the Viking probes.
Just enjoy it man.