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Mars and the
USA’s “Curiosity” looking for what? Dumb idea maybe?
“How much have you put into
this idea? How much of your money have you spent on this project?” asked one of the Dragons on
the Dragon’s Den TV program.
The man
shuffled from foot to foot before he said. “I
have mortgaged my house and other properties. I have invested about $750,000 of
my personal money in the project. It has affected my family and every part of
my life. I am completely committed to making this business become viable.”
The
Dragon that asked the question sputtered a little and said that the man was
crazy to do such a thing. No matter how good the idea seemed to him he should
never have laid out so much money! “This
is a bad idea! I am out!” stated the Dragon angrily.
The poor
guy left the TV Show without the expected help that he wanted from the
Millionaires called Dragons.
Can you
imagine spending all that money on something that isn’t really that important
to mankind? Something that most people do not really want or need, something
that will be discarded before one week’s time is up? Something that has cost this man
everything!!!? Including all of his $750,000 which may include his house and
family…
Yikes.
I have
been watching and reading about something that is far more expensive than the
$750,000 project the man on the Dragon’s Den presentation ever put together.
It is the
amazing new Mars rover called “Curiosity” that is now moving about Mars (not
yet but soon may be) and sending information and photos “home” to NASA – 350 Million
Miles away.
I am
reading how the success is going (hopefully) with the new software being
transmitted and uploaded into the computer on board “Curiosity” to make it do
new things. It is called a “Patch” that is sent via transmission to the small
unit on the face of Mars.
In doing
the reading I have so far I found out that computer onboard “Curiosity” is old
technology and that my cell phone has more up-to-date technology on it.
Does that
make you think… “Duh? Is something not a
little weird here?” The last time my
computer got an upgrade from its Mother Microsoft here in North America – it didn’t
work so well. It was sent by a fairly secure and accurate phone line that
involves a lot of fibre optics and stuff – ON EARTH – not 350 million miles
away!
It
apparently takes 30 to 50 seconds to send the signal… the photo… and whatever
to the rover.
Hmmm? What would the Dragons on the Dragon’s Den TV
Program say about this? The US
Government has invested a gazillion dollars to get one machine with an older
style computer to sit on a huge, flat, dusty plain on Mars – and look at sand
and rocks as far as the eye can see…?????
Maybe the
response would be, “This is a dumb idea…
I’m out! Investing your children’s money and your children’s, children’s money multiplied
a hundred times… seems like not such a good idea. I’m out!”
Oh
boy! With the new Presidential
candidates in the USA spewing how they need to cut and slash and burn spending…
poor little “Curiosity” may sit for a long time on that Martian landscape and wait
for it new Patch.
“Curiosity” is not the first rover to be placed on
Mars. You can read about here “Mars Exploration
Rover”
There are
two other rovers on Mars now serving the USA.
One is stuck in the sand and can’t move anymore. They call it their “stationary platform” on
Mars.
Too funny…
it is a very expensive rover stuck in Martian sole without its sand tires on…an
old computer onboard – even older than “Curiosity’s” – and it can’t move anywhere.
This is
Monday morning – Patch Day in the USA and on Mars.
This is the
day I ask “Why?”
They say
that one of the things that they are looking for is some evidence that Mars
might have had water on it at one time in the distant past…????
So how
will that change my world? Mars may have had water on it long ago… what about
now? No? Well we all knew that and could
care less!
Plain and
simple… any old farmer in Saskatchewan knows that some fields are just not the
kind you plant grain in… it is dumb to try… there might have been dinosaurs
swimming here long ago too… but nothing will grow in that land now… so why go
there?
I mean… WHY?
~
Murray Lincoln ~
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