We’re running. It’s dark. 9:30 PM. At the former school, someone is changing letters on a sign, dimly lit by a yellow lamp. You’ve surely seen various signs in that blocky white font the size of an elbow. We exchanged greetings. It turned out to be the school principal 😳
Photo of Mars from InSight. Looks like a cardboard box after the rain, taped together. It’s a robot-geologist (more accurately, an areologist, since it’s Mars), now it will drill a five-meter hole in this desert and search for answers there
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Update: WE HAVE LANDED!
Watching the landing attempt of the new InSight rover on Mars. NASA really did an outstanding job, I can’t understand how one can plan and execute such a project. Now we just watch. The link includes interesting 3D videos of what is happening and what will happen.
I think it’s clear to everyone that this isn’t just some remote-controlled model, but a system with autonomous decision-making capabilities on what actions to take in various situations. Currently, the rover is 90 million km away from us. Thus, a signal takes 11 minutes to get there, and the same amount of time to return. You can’t anticipate everything: out of 17 missions, ten were unsuccessful. The cartoon at the link above shows how complex it all is.
Live broadcast – it’s been at least three hours already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0
30 minutes left
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/
Fingers crossed
“when I was there, there was also a line of cars,” “mom, I thought you would take pictures of this church and then go back,” “in this race, I must perform better” Living in an English-speaking environment gradually deteriorates the Russian language: calques of English words start appearing
The number Pi in wartime can reach four!
If you’re going to break, might as well do it elegantly, thought our little plate.
Today is National Portfolio Day. It’s a day of the year when representatives from art colleges and universities meet with prospective students and provide them feedback, pros, cons, what to include in their portfolios, and what not. Whether to expect grants and other admissions-related advice. Each student is given at least 15 minutes of time. The photo shows just one twentieth of the space and the crowds. Many people, many colleges. Interestingly, here they almost never talk to parents at any educational institution for any reason. It’s as if they don’t exist. It’s your application – they talk to you. And today, many came with their mothers, but neither moms nor dads get noticed.
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