http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
August 5
Seven Minutes of Terror
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At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.
Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
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Big Wallaby
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Re: Seven Minutes of Terror
That is an awesome video. And how did it end?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/scien ... -mars.html
Very nice, JPL.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/scien ... -mars.html
Very nice, JPL.
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Re: Seven Minutes of Terror
Can you imagine the initial conversation where this plan was developed?
"So, I was thinking... while the capsule is hanging by a chute, it can release the probe with a jet pack and crane attached. The jetpack can fly it to the right place, then the crane can lower the probe to the surface while the jet pack hovers above. Once the probe is on the suface, it relases and the jetpack flies away. What do you think?"
Queue the stange looks directed at the crazy person. It's really amazing that this is the safest plan they could come up with, but what a feat of engineering. Kudos to everyone who worked on this. I can't wait to hear what they find out over the course of the mission.
"So, I was thinking... while the capsule is hanging by a chute, it can release the probe with a jet pack and crane attached. The jetpack can fly it to the right place, then the crane can lower the probe to the surface while the jet pack hovers above. Once the probe is on the suface, it relases and the jetpack flies away. What do you think?"
Queue the stange looks directed at the crazy person. It's really amazing that this is the safest plan they could come up with, but what a feat of engineering. Kudos to everyone who worked on this. I can't wait to hear what they find out over the course of the mission.
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Big Wallaby
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Re: Seven Minutes of Terror
Well, you know, past iterations of Mars landing devices consisted of giant balloons surrounding the landing module and it bounces around for a while until it hopefully ends up upright. Good luck making it end up where you want it.
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Re: Seven Minutes of Terror
Very true. If I didn't know that Sid was hauling garbage, I'd think maybe he was designing things.Big Wallaby wrote:Well, you know, past iterations of Mars landing devices consisted of giant balloons surrounding the landing module and it bounces around for a while until it hopefully ends up upright. Good luck making it end up where you want it.
Let's see... wrap it in bubble wrap and chuck it out the window.
No, no, even better! Take the parachute from G. I. Joe, the jet pack from Buzz, and the claw from Pizza Planet...
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Re: Seven Minutes of Terror
well I was just about to post a topic on this but the marsupial beat me to the punch. From watching the live feed early today, it was very exhilarating to watch. Though the seven minutes didn't seem like terror to me, all very calm and smooth.