I’ve long thought all satellites designed to study climate change should be called Cassandra.
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Who’d a thunk that plopping a refrigerator on stilts onto rocky terrain would be so hard?
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Will they be sending another probe to shoot it?
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Landing tall skinny objects is risky and difficult, but I highly doubt that Astronauts will be in control of the landers, whatever the design. Armstrong did an amazing job landing the Apollo 11 lander manually, but those days of manual control are long over. One of the few really silly plot elements of the book “The Martian” was that the Mars rockets were landed and launched being remotely controlled in real-time by a human operator who was in orbit using a joystick.
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of course there’s going to be an automated landing system. how else can our confident pilot turn it off and yell – i’ve got this!!! – right after a bunch of unlabeled red lights start flashing madly? it’s tradition.
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Hey, climbing up and down on a 30 meter ladder is easy-peasy on the Moon.
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