Sound of the wind on another planet.

[Westmarcher]

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. 

[Techno II]

And the fact that the atmosphere on Mars is sooooooo thin.

I'm really hoping, that before I pop my clogs.....We'll get some sort of craft on Europa....Drill through the surface ice, down to the liquid water.....(With a camera)....and see if there's any form of primitive life down there.

There will be. Trust me on this.

Cheers - Phil.

[flamingpig0]

I'm really hoping, that before I pop my clogs.....We'll get some sort of craft on Europa....Drill through the surface ice, down to the liquid water.....(With a camera)....and see if there's any form of primitive life down there.

There will be. Trust me on this.

Cheers - Phil.

I would agree

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

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

And the fact that the atmosphere on Mars is sooooooo thin.

I'm really hoping, that before I pop my clogs.....We'll get some sort of craft on Europa....Drill through the surface ice, down to the liquid water.....(With a camera)....and see if there's any form of primitive life down there.

There will be. Trust me on this.

Cheers - Phil.

Paraniod Phil ? 

[FierceKitty]

I would agree

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

We haven't checked everywhere. Imaging if alien visitors reported on Earth on the basis of landings in the Sahara, the mid-Pacific, Antarctica, and Luton....

[Orcs]

We haven't checked everywhere. Imaging if alien visitors reported on Earth on the basis of landings in  Luton....

Well they would then of course be devout believers in the existence of Hell 

[Ithoriel]

So, based on statistical evidence from the planets we've successfully landed things on - one third of planets are uninhabited, one third are inhabited by terrestrial lifeforms and one third are inhabited by robots?

[Techno II]

Paraniod Phil ? 

Hardly, Chum. 

But I'd get a pound to a penny that there's 'life' all over the universe.
Even on the little oblate spheroid that we call home....there are living organisms that survive and reproduce in conditions that we wouldn't have a bloomin' chance of coping with.

Aliens in 'flying saucers'.....Nah...Things like Tardigrades...(Look those up...I find those fascinating.)

Amazing little beasties.....What they can survive is unbelievable.

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

I, for one, welcome our tardigrade overlords.

[flamingpig0]

and Luton....

indeed

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706351/

[Techno II]

Tardigrales will last far longer than Homosapiens. 

Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

imaginE

[DecemDave]

I, for one, welcome our tardigrade overlords.

Should this be on the requests thread?

[Techno II]

 

Cheers - Phil.

[Westmarcher]

Flight postponed now to no earlier than April 14. 

Apparently some 'watchdog' timer issue when trying to transition the flight computer from 'Pre-Flight' to 'Flight' mode ....... or was it Phil's tardigrades?