I enjoy seeing the spontaneous joy of the folks in the command center after the successful landing of the rover. It's unimaginable to me what many of those folks must have been going through - the nervousness, the lack of sleep, the investment of so much thinking and effort. I mean just imagine of one little thing goes wrong...the parachute doesn't deploy, a cable breaks, the landing spot is wrong and it crashes into something. What an awful picture it would have been in the control room to see failure. I heard on the news this morning that a helicopter of some sort is going to be utilized to travel by air as well as the rover itself traveling on the planet, so that will be interesting.
I would say last period most students who shared and responded to this topic were generally supportive, but I would not fault anyone for saying we should postpone spending so much in money and time and effort until we get things figured out for everyone on earth. Heck, we are in masks trying to get through a school year and trying to get as many folks vaccinated as we can before the dang U.K virus or South African virus or Brazillian virus become the dominate strains and we determine if of if not the vaccines are going to be effective.
So if you are in the camp of saying that we shouldn't explore other worlds until this world is okay, that's entirely understandable.
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