[Technology] NASA Perseverance Mars Landing!

[marlowe]

They just ended with youngblud doing Bowie and then randomly showed a tweet from Rick Astley.

Why Rick Astley?

Brian May, he’s got a PhD in astrophysics...

What’s Astley got that gets him on the closing credits of one of the greatest space exploration moments of all time?

I think it might have been a case of the NASA website crew having a bit of a laugh by sneaking in a variation of the phenomenon known as "Rickrolling".

A true "Rickroll" would have seen them play the video to "Never Gonna Give You Up" instead of Yungblud's cover of "Life on Mars", but they probably realised it would be taking the joke a little too far, so the Astley tweet was probably the next best thing that they thought they could get away with.

I can't think of any other reason why they would have used the solitary tweet by Rick Astley over anybody else other than it being NASA's nod to Rickrolling.

"Rickrolling" started around 2008 and involves the unexpected appearance of the video to "Never Gonna Give You Up" at various events and on the internet.....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

Edit: It appears that there are others who share my theory...



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[Recidivist]

Yes, the possibility of finding possible fossilised microbes or bacteria is truly exciting. I would be more interested if there was little green men.

Careful! That’s a borderline racist remark.......


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[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Post landing briefing at 18:00 our time(I think that's correct if they say 1pmEST?) according to NASA website.

 

[SweatyMexican]

I think it might have been a case of the NASA website crew having a bit of a laugh by sneaking in a variation of the phenomenon known as "rickrolling”.

No it wasn’t. This article explains it perfectly: https://bit.ly/3boIlN1

 

[Pavilionaire]

NASA are hoping to get the HD videos of the landing (with sound) soon. This will be the first video of a spade craft landing on another planet. I can’t wait.

Hopefully, it won't be a case of: "Hoeston, we have a problem"

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Come on NASA give us some more pictures.
Waiting for them to release new footage is as nerve wracking as the landing was.

 

[A1X]

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[dangull]

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That's interesting. Sounded a bit windy.

 

[Motogull]

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After all that effort and it sounds as good as it looks. Shit.

I wanted to see and hear something to make me need a change of trousers. Boring.

 

[Hugo Rune]

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[Raleigh Chopper]

Surely it's only a matter if time until they find a Starbucks.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Any sign of Ulloa penalty yet?

 

[dazzer6666]

Main picture in this article is incredible

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56133281

 

[Chicken Run]

Hopefully, it won't be a case of: "Hoeston, we have a problem"

Otherwise they will have to reshovel all the future launches.

 

[Fungus]

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Why does it say "Curiosity" at the end?

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

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I think that's old footage from another rover.
The tyre tracks go quite away into the distance and I don't think Perceverance has moved yet.
Also the tyre treads don't look the same.
I thought there would be couple of weeks commissioning before we see footage like that.
And I would have thought they would have shown it at the press conference earlier.
I could be wrong though,you never know what NASA are actually doing at times.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Staying away from chocolate for a minute and to be serious, can they swing the camera round and show Earth from Mars like we can see Mars from Earth, as I have no idea about this sort of thing.
Are there any temperature readings, atmosphere readings (oxygen, nitrogen etc) gravity.
This stuff is probably already known but because of this I am now very interested in what Mars is like.

 

[Swansman]

Staying away from chocolate for a minute and to be serious, can they swing the camera round and show Earth from Mars like we can see Mars from Earth, as I have no idea about this sort of thing.
Are there any temperature readings, atmosphere readings (oxygen, nitrogen etc) gravity.
This stuff is probably already known but because of this I am now very interested in what Mars is like.

Its cold as **** and they (who?) only have a little bit of oxygen over there. Its a shite planet.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Not even gone there.

Being filmed in a back room off of Southwick tunnel.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Staying away from chocolate for a minute and to be serious, can they swing the camera round and show Earth from Mars like we can see Mars from Earth, as I have no idea about this sort of thing. This stuff is probably already known but because of this I am now very interested in what Mars is like.

It's a layer of caramel on a malty nougat base, encased in milk chocolate.