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Watching these is always a stressful experience, I can't imagine what it would be like sitting in that room, praying that the object you spend years of work on is able to land by itself 7 light-minutes away.

I'm looking forward to what Perseverance will teach us.

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This morning on the radio and Australian scientist told the listeners he had spent 10 years working on his small part of the Perseverance mission.

That would help to make the landing quite a nerve racking event.

You know, in some ways its like any scientific endeavor. Hypothesis, funding, data collection can take years of effort. Then you look at your data and test hypotheses, and you have no control of the outcome. It can be terrifying, to be honest, which is why I support publishing of negative results. Of course crashing on Mars would be a terrible null result ;)

Right now it is 11 minutes away!

I was still under the assumption of Curiosity's 7 minutes! Thanks for letting me know

It varies quite a bit as our orbit isn't synced with Mars. Anywhere from 3 minutes 13 seconds to 22 minutes 16 seconds. Along with the days out of sync by 40 min it must be hell on the team supporting it.

> Watching these is always a stressful experience, I can't imagine what it would be like sitting in that room

Sitting in any closed space like that one, with other people, masks or no, is stressful right now. It's a shame that NASA can communicate with a rover 125 million KM away but their staff have to all be crammed into one small enclosed space. You'd think we'd be able to communicate just as effectively over several kilometers.

I imagine that people will look back on videos from this time period where ~3M people died (mostly unnecessarily) and wonder what on Earth people were thinking, carrying on like that.

what if those people were tested for covid and there was no risk?

That's how Trump got it, then spread it.

Can you provide any evidence that Trump spread the virus to anyone?

You're obviously trolling since you're pretending you don't already know. He spread it to millions of Americans, by lying about it and encouraging his followers not to wear masks, not to mention all his sycophants who caught it by licking his boots. Are you one of them?

"He spread it to them" means that he physically transmitted it to them. He did not. Pointing out your misuse of the English language does not make me a sycophant.

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