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RE: Successful landing of the Insight spacecraft on Mars

in #mars5 years ago

This is obviously a nonsense post, providing nonsense stats

For instance:

3 million kilometers (about 22.5 times the distance from North America to Bangladesh).

That would mean the distance USA to Bangladesh is over 133,333 km.

the spacecraft, made by NASA's 6-kilometer-in-one name, had a velocity of 5 kilometers per hour

A simple calculation means it travelled 5kmph x 24 = 120 km per day.
As stated in the post, the distance os 3 million km. So, to travel that distance
we are looking at:

120 km per day, cover the 3m km, it would take: 250,000 days (which comes to: almost 685 years.)

Now THAT is truly NEWS! - We sent the spacecraft to Mars during the Middle Ages!!!


I have not attacked the poster on his use of the language, which is so bad that it makes total nonsense of the news, I have only challenged him on a few basic calculations / stats he offered.

I suggest that anyone interested in this subject look elsewhere for more dependable information.

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Do you really think my information is wrong?

You cannot do the arithmetic for yourself?