Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly

Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by j4mie on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:06AM (#27313207)

Is it still called OTA if there isn't any air?

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by codeulike on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:20AM (#27313276)

I think it can justifiably have a grander name than OTA.

Lets call it an "OPA" - Other Planet Update

Or perhaps "USTLLTFMMA" (updating software thats literally like thirty fucking million miles away)

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by NAG3LT on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:47AM (#27314742)

As if Squats and Dusters would ever accept OPA

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by sunizzle on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:11AM (#27314925)

Underrated comment. #expanse

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by 8bitsrule on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:12AM (#27323395)

OPA Gangnam Style

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by wereHamster on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:11AM (#27313237)

There is air for the fist and last few dozens of kilometers (at varying density)

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by TchoBeer on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:25AM (#27316505)

There's very clearly air, seeing as the helicopter is flying.

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by samsari on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:13AM (#27313252)

Over the Aether?

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by hvidgaard on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:33AM (#27313740)

That isn't there either.

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:24AM (#27316484)

"The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories#Quantum_vacuum

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by hvidgaard on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:53AM (#27341830)

I am aware of the theory of quantum vacuum, but I generally take Aether to mean the old proposal as the medium light waves travel through. It has been refuted.

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by snypher on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:29PM (#27317402)

Over-the-antenna maybe, easier than a JTAG cable.

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Re:Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly by Trufa on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:38AM (#27314655)

Air doesn't have a strict definition right?

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