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Mars Rovers (Patreon)

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2023-06-20 15:24:30
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2026-06

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CarrieBoo

I'm gonna cry aren't I? The Goodnight, Oppy doc made me weep.

Denise Huston

Mary Roach AND Bill Bryson? Narrowcasting directly to me seems like a risk, but I appreciate it.

Chase

I actually helped build the nuclear generator on Perseverance. It’s full name is the Multi-Mission Radioisotopic Thermoelectric Generator or MMRTG for short.

Thomas Hart

Fun fact, the Zhurong rover was going to be called "Marsy McMarsface" but the CNSA chickened out and decided to name one of its submarines that instead and named the rover "David Attenborough," cause there just aren't enough things named after him already.

LisaLisa

Mars bars!! Looove it Tom!

Jon Herrin

You didn't talk about the Rube Goldberg landing system for Curiosity and Perseverance?

Danial Gibson

Funny enough there already an Escape Pod podcast, which is a Sci-Fi anthology series and an Escape This Podcast podcast, which is exactly what it sounds like, where guests try to solve audio only escape rooms.

Kyle

Obviously, the Chinese scientists that designed their rover were familiar with “Terra Formars” manga. Which means we have so much to fear right now

William Evan Barnes

Oh man Cecil, it's a good thing you didn't go with Escape Pod as the name of the new podcast, since that's already a sci-fi podcast! It sure would be a shame if you guys started a new show that accidentally shared a name with a much larger and more lucrative show. (I'm so sorry, I had to)

BT

That fucking sandstorm reference...Well played Tom. That broke my brain from how perfect it was.

B. King

How dare you! R2D2 is the most beloved fictional machine. Wall-E is a close second.

Viridian-Flow

Knowing what Mars sounds like it's actually kind of interesting. If we build habitats on Mars we likely won't be filling them with the exact same mixture or pressure of gases due to availability and gravity as we have on earth. If the gases the sound travels along are different enough to cause different pressures the end result will be different won't it? Human vocal chords may vibrate sightly differently and voices may sound sightly higher or lower, or the echo may be faster etc. That's cool to think about. Especially if in a thousand years we start terraforming the atmosphere, the same things will sound sightly different on different planets. Like if they can easily make oxygen but not really nitrogen they may end up just having a thinner habitat air with greater oxygen concentration (but still low enough to be safe because fire) to make up for less gas overall and sounds would be I think more high pitched over distance as the pressure waves would disperse more over distance (I think?) Is that accurate? Everytime I've asked a physicist about this they've just kind of shrugged, and as the space station air is fairly close to earths composition (and they have easy access to plenty more of it so they can do that) it hasn't been an issue there. But like, filling a big habitat or eventually a full on outpost or city would be easier if we could make the gas on site than to try and transport enough of it over