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Betting om MSL Curiosity landing outcome?
Is there any betting companies around the globe that let you
bet on a successful or crash outcome of Curiosity Lander in a couple of weeks time? Seems there never has been such a stir around a landing as this one, so this seems the right time to put real money on a landing. Personally I'm doubtful about this landing, but I certainly hope I'm will be wrong and it will climb the layers of the crater mountain eventually! Bjørn Sørheim |
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Betting om MSL Curiosity landing outcome?
On a sunny day (Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:38:01 +0200) it happened "Bjørn Sørheim"
wrote in : Is there any betting companies around the globe that let you bet on a successful or crash outcome of Curiosity Lander in a couple of weeks time? Seems there never has been such a stir around a landing as this one, so this seems the right time to put real money on a landing. Personally I'm doubtful about this landing, but I certainly hope I'm will be wrong and it will climb the layers of the crater mountain eventually! Bjørn Sørheim Well, they *could* have learned a lesson from that time that the rockets stopped firing because of a software glicth when teh landing gear came out.. The *could* have learned to send telemetry during decent, so if it crashes they will know why (at least one of the bugs). But.... NASA these days is very good at simulations, those look cool, but Hollywood makes better ones complete with aliens and light sabres. It is so much 50/50 probably not worth bothering And even if it lands, it lands in the wrong place to look for life, probably because it should not find any, for political reasons. OTOH even a blind man can accidently shoot a bird... |
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