Sound of the wind on another planet.

Started by Westmarcher, 08 December 2018, 07:30:13 PM

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WRG was very inclined to blow its own trumpet.
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Gauntlet runs/ran a very succesful 6th edition comp but the players are getting very elderly.
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Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 April 2021, 07:06:24 AM
Gauntlet runs/ran a very succesful 6th edition comp but the players are getting very elderly.

I think it was Derby who had  3 or possibly 4 ancient  competitions using different generations of  WRG rules.
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Quote from: ianrs54 on 17 April 2021, 06:58:55 AM
T'would be 3 - 6th, DBM and 7th.

I thought they had DBMM as well but I might be misremembering.
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Another attempt to be made today at 6.15 am EDT.  EDT is Eastern Daylight Time in the U.S. (5 hours behind BST in the U.K.).

Here is a live link.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online
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Radio 4 News - It just flew for a couple of minutes
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It IS really impressive.....even if it only flew for a short spell. :-bd

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Well a couple of minutes is still longer than the Wright brothers, although nice that a bit of their original plane was incorporated into the Martian chopper.
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20 April 2021, 04:50:23 AM #86 Last Edit: 20 April 2021, 04:52:42 AM by Heedless Horseman
Quote from: Leman on 19 April 2021, 07:13:41 PM
Well a couple of minutes is still longer than the Wright brothers, although nice that a bit of their original plane was incorporated into the Martian chopper.
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Quote from: Westmarcher on 10 April 2021, 11:04:22 AM
One more day to go before the test flight of Ingenuity, the first aircraft (helicopter, actually) on Mars, which, if successful, will make it the first powered and fully controlled atmospheric flight, from takeoff to landing, on any planet beyond Earth. Unlike on Earth, NASA won't be able to control the helicopter with a joystick because of communication delays between here and The Red Planet so the attempted take-off and flight will be entirely automatic. Here's hoping it won't be too windy! Fingers crossed. 

It only just occurred to me that it won't be able to use GPS like the really posh drones here can.
On account of there being no halo of shiny satellites in low mars orbit (yet).

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Quote from: flamingpig0 on 10 April 2021, 12:30:42 PM
I would agree

Of course - I am deeply disappointed that there isn't a Edgar Rice Burroughs style society on Mars

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I would think it's got a becon to link to the lander. Seem to remember that Mars has a very weak magnetic field so no mag compass.
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