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Find out why NASA engineers call the upcoming Mars landing "Seven Minutes of Terror"
I've got tix to go see the landing (or really, just listening to people in the control room panic, I guess), but I have no friends so I have to go by myself. :(
Yo Is This Racist now has a call-in number where you can ask him questions on voicemail for his podcast.
OMG I totally want to call in and yell.
14 light minutes?! That's so far!
Why is that the part that is wigging me out?
Maybe I should have invited Andrew Ti. I'm sure there are no racists on Mars.
I've got tix to go see the landing (or really, just listening to people in the control room panic, I guess), but I have no friends so I have to go by myself. :(
I'd totally go with you!
Not sure if it's worth flying to LA, though.
14 light minutes?! That's so far!
Why is that the part that is wigging me out?
The moon is about 2.5 light-seconds away. The sun is about 8 light-minutes away.
Does that help, or make it worse?
heh. There will be many JPLers there to hang with and it lands at some crazy time at night.
ND is going to be SO jealous of you, Allyson! I am too, but he's a bigger space geek than I am. What an amazing experience!
No, it's not animism. It's something I have filed next to furry (it encompasses people who think they're truly the elongated Smurfs from Avatar) but I can't get any closer than that in my brain.
Otherkin?
Does that help, or make it worse?
No change, that's information I already had filed away. But it is the root of the wiggins, I think. Farther than the sun!
THANK YOU, -t. That's precisely what my brain couldn't find.
(eta: all that for one word in one post I wanted to make--jesus overkill christ)