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After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Next flight is scheduled for Titan, which is a lot easier. The gravity is lower, but there's a lot more atmosphere, which means our helicopter can be nuclear powered!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or leg powered. The gravity is so low and the atmosphere so thick a pilot could pedal power a Cessna Skyhawk. Until he froze to death.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That can be solved with some good leg warmer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean flying on Titan would be so easily theoretically a guy with really big wings could reasonably flap himself around

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Run out and find me a guy with really big wings, I've got a job for him.