NASA's got another Mars rover that's supposed to land in about a week, on August 5. I hadn't really been paying attention so I wasn't aware this was happening until recently, when a friend linked to this video detailing how the landing will work.
Now, I know what you're thinking. What's the big deal? They've landed on Mars before. Well, watch the fucking video, jerk. This is people being really fucking smart and doing shit most other people couldn't even dream of doing. No matter how crazy shit can be nowadays, we can still do absolutely insane feats of engineering that 100 years from now, when the world lies in ruins, we will look back on and say 'yeah, we were pretty cool'.
Fuck your Mako, fuck your magic Star Wars landing shuttle, your 'wasting taxpayer money' bullshit, this is real fucking science that we're doing.
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