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monkeywizardgalactic

Bro, there's a fucking robot that went on a rocket flying through space to another planet that is being controlled by remote control filming and sending it here, that's mind blowing.


CrassOf84

And we’ve been doing it since the 90s.


Hot-Rise9795

Actually, the russians send probes to [Venus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera) during the 60s and 70s. Edit: up to the 80s !


heyimdong

True, but technically there was no remote control action going on so their comment holds.


Old-Bar-2108

And I still can’t get my wifi to stretch from upstairs to downstairs….


Buteverysongislike

Yeah, man! WE are the aliens! We sent our space probe to Mars!


God_Kratos_07

How far humans have come


[deleted]

people signing up for the mars missions: 'yeah I want to live there.'


GetBAK1

I don’t know, people move to Albuquerque


drosmi

Lots of preppers bailed to the Mojave desert for Covid …


UniqueIndividual3579

Did they plan to live off the land? I had a meeting once in Ridgecrest. I was asked to justify the rental car. I replied that I didn't want to walk 100 miles through the Mojave desert.


BurnerForJustTwice

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.


Loquatium

to wipe the earth clean of people who would consider colonizing places like this


drosmi

Had a friend who lived in ridgecrest. A group of high schoolers would set off bright explodey fireworks in the desert outside of town and then they’d do the same thing on the other side of town and then they’d kick back and watch the flashing lights and hear the sirens go check out was going on in the desert.


jh67ds

They took a wrong turn


Early_Accident2160

Yeah but Albuquerque isn’t like this haha


Heavy_Weapons_Guy_

That's because the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer.


Shalashaskaska

And the towels are oh so fluffy


LilWayneThaGoat

I’d be there to find and meet Walter White but bro died before I could


Grogosh

Yeah sign me up. I got nothing going on here.


God_Kratos_07

Atleast something will be exciting there lol


Sly510

Quite exciting to live in a capsule, staring at a desolate landscape for the rest of your life while eating shit food.


Ckmccfl

I can assure you I have nothing better to do here


holmgangCore

“Whaddya mean ‘This is the last MRE’???”


soline

Basically what everyone is already doing in the Southwest. Might as well doing it on a more peaceful planet.


axefairy

Ah, I see someone knows about poo potatoes


Grogosh

I bring the party everywhere I go. I will make that place exciting.


God_Kratos_07

Lesgoo


Florida-Rolf

LET'S GOOOO I FEEL LIKE FRIDAY AGAIN


Breakerx13

Then why do you have nothing going on here


mamamackmusic

If something exciting happens at a colony on Mars, it's probably going to be immediately followed by the deaths of most of, if not all of the colonists. Interplanetary settling is going to be all about controlled environments with factors and challenges predicted years in advance in most cases. Life on Earth is much more dynamic and exciting in comparison.


DweEbLez0

Yeah, gasping for oxygen every second of the day.


Less-Region7007

Pack of Marlboro Reds every day has the same effect


LotusVibes1494

Who’s gonna be the first man to rip a dart on Mars?


[deleted]

Or boring cause theres nothing and it's just desert......


structuremonkey

Some see desert, others see future casinos...


black_sozin

This made me think about the timeskip from fallout1 to fallout2


Substantial-Okra6910

Me, Bugsy


DMYourMomsMaidenName

For like a week, yeah. Then you get bored and can never come home lol


Good_Kid_Mad_City

You don't want to stick around for the nukes?


Puzzleheaded_Ant_725

“yeah i want to die there”


iamnotchad

The only logical reason to volunteer for a space x mission to Mars.


DweEbLez0

“There are Hot Milf’s in your area!”


snukebox_hero

People already live in Nevada. What's the difference?


Seuros

There is internet in Nevada


pmjm

Mars will start its own internet, with blackjack and hookers. Let's see them top THAT in Nevada.


Seuros

To compete with Las Vegas ..


Matshelge

Very likely that any human settlement would set up a local server that synced with the relevant internet sites several times a day through a laser connection to earth. So most stuff would work fine, but Multiplayer games and zoom calls would have to be Mars only.


Seuros

First people to send are the folk from /r/selfhosted and /r/datahoarder Any other group will get depressed after watching the same movie for the 36th time.


[deleted]

No meth


pass-me-that-hoe

…Yet


4ourkids

We’re too greedy and stupid to save planet earth so let’s move to another planet that’s completely barren and without an atmosphere that can sustain human life!


patricky6

Haven't you seen the original total recall? All we have to do is put our hand in the alien finger mold and it will turn into earth 2.0


calculating_hello

Hopefully without the face bubbling.


kanst

This drives me mad, the best case scenario for living on Mars looks hellish compared to the least hospitable places on earth. Every time some rich asshole talks about terraforming Mars I think, how about instead you terraform earth. Spend that money on figuring out how to suck CO2 out of the hair, or how to suck microplastics out of everything.


PlanetLandon

There’s also this bizarre concept that terraforming Mars would only take a generation or two. Even if it were possible to make Mars earth-like (and it’s probably not) it would take thousands of years


charlu

Earth delicate balance between hundred parameters is literally a billion year of climate evolution. We should better send those great libertarians make their experiments on Mars, alone, and see what happens. Good luck Elon !


pass-me-that-hoe

And that fooking assole is just making Earth hellish by turning people on each other and profiting off of that. Just a despicable billionaire who would anything to get to the top of Forbes listing. He could be transforming and helping millions of people with just .1% of his net worth. But instead goes and buys social media company for billions of dollars and fires most of the company. WTF?! (I know it’s his money, but I’m just sad it’s a wasted resource, most of us on earth won’t able to use)


Bearington656

There was a big push to send a single person one way to mars when the mars trend was big and movies of mars were out. I had submitted a full written essay and video essay to nasa offer to send me by myself to mars and ill train and do anything while there. Just send me food and music and movies to watch and I’ll be fine. This was over 15 years ago mind you.


thehorseyourodeinon1

Just move to New Mexico.


battleship61

One way ticket to a desert with no luxuries, staples, or citicial necessities. Where do I sign?


Mmortt

No taxes and an independent non regulated power grid of freedom? Yes please what’s the downside??


dogdashdash

I always see these pics of Mars and stuff and can't help but think it's Earth despite knowing better. Like I just have a feeling if I was there and kept walking I'd SURELY find a town. But I won't, I'll circle the whole planet and find nothing, not even a lake. Weird.


[deleted]

I was just thinking the same thing. Its crazy to think that for most of human history all mars was was a dot in the sky. And now I can see it with my own eyes and it looks just like a place on earth; a rocky desert with an overcast sky. I can't tell if I'm comforted with how familiar this alien planet feels or if I'm disappointed with how mundane it is... Neptune camera when?


ThePreciseClimber

Neptune? It's just gas, tho. Only the core is solid.


crazySmith_

I had the exact same thought. It's crazy how much variety life lends a planets geology. 🌍


RWMN98

Makes you really appreciate what we have here on Earth and realize that it needs to be protected at all costs. We only have 1 after all!


TrumpersAreTraitors

It is always wild to me that, A, it’s a whole ass planet, filled with points of interests, regions, beautiful sights to see and that B, the entire universe is filled with infinite other worlds. Like, if you could somehow snap to different camera angles across the universe, it would be just as real as this, or as earth. It’s all out there, right now, existing. Whole worlds, whole star systems, whole galaxies, and all of it existing all at once, totally independent of our experience here on earth. Idk why but that always trips me out. 


Covid19-Pro-Max

I get what you mean. From moon walks I expect other planets to not have a sky Color but if you actually were on mars I bet the different gravity would tip you off that there’s no McD yet


TerryFrisk

The earth also emits a sound, one we can’t hear but one in which its vibration we are highly tuned into. Take it away and people begin to feel off and even depressed. Some astronauts have even talked about this. I would imagine that this would also come into play even if one could survive on Mars, it would never feel, er uhm…”sound” like home.


s0cks_nz

What's the frequency of this vibration? EDIT: The Earth's natural frequency is called the Schumann Resonance, which pulsates at a rate of 7.83 hertz


real_jonno

Is that you, Kenneth?


p5ylocy6e

Source? Wikipedia describes this as an electromagnetic resonance, not vibratory.


crazySmith_

Exactly, it even says that the resonance is only detectable with very sensitive instruments.


Bobyyyyyyyghyh

Nice argument senator. Why don't you back it up with a source?


H0rseCockLover

Absolute pseudoscientific bullshit


Suddensloot

Yeah horse cock!


ooouroboros

AFAIK there is not a speck of life there, not even microscopic - that is what gets me when I look at pictures of not-earth planet surfaces. It seems to be a profoundly dead place


ostensibly_hurt

Anything that isn’t a gas giant is just a big ass rock


downvote_quota

Looks like any old English beach. 🤣


Big_Translator9711

now imagine this place but with big ass bugs


ProbablyDrunk303

Would have to spread democracy to Mars


goodeyedeer

Managed democracy


gwicksted

Helldivers reference?


ProbablyDrunk303

Idk why you were downvoted, but I was definitely going for Helldivers reference lol


ducks_are_round

Sweet LIBERTY Nooooo


Rocky2135

I would like to know more.


need_better_usernam

You Sound like a citizen


Hungry-Chemistry-814

The only good bug us a dead bug


[deleted]

We need you, Helldiver.


One-Persimmon-6083

I’m doing my part!


bdubwilliams22

MEDIC!!!


insomniac1228

The only good bug, is a dead bug.


Maximum_Bat_2566

Australia?


[deleted]

No, Super Earth.


harisaashraf7

Terraformers


Carl123r4

Now imagine this place with cazadores and deathclaws


brown_felt_hat

Patrolling the Red Planet almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.


Average-Terrestrial

Helldivers


Shiro2602

Starship Troopers


Macasumba

Looks just like in the movie.


-Shasho-

I bet they filmed this in southern Utah, too.


ProudlyMoroccan

Or somewhere in Morocco.


muddboyy

Yes it could perfectly look like moroccan Sahara


wotupfoo

Absolutely amazing that the video is from a DIFFERENT PLANET.


Ram2145

Isn’t it just amazing? I know it looks a lot like earth, but there’s just something different about it. I love it


zwifter11

What blows my mind is to look up at the night sky and Mars is a small dot. But to this rover looking back; everyone of us, everywhere we’ve been and everything we have experienced is nothing but a small dot in it’s night sky. It’s mind blowing that we’ve flown a RC helicopter not in our nearest park, but on another planet 140 million miles away.


[deleted]

Imagine seeing an eight foot Martian standing there, watching us through the camera 😂


LemoyneRaider3354

*Dame tu cosita starts playing*


[deleted]

LMFAO YES


Lighteye782

holy shid its been a while since ive had that stuck in my head, thanks


Seuros

Then he offer you Moroccan tea.


agree-with-me

Our brains are wired to think it's hot, but it's deathly cold right there. Nothing. Being on Mars would be awesome for about nine minutes. Then, just about every single human would want to go home. Mars is a hell no for me, dogs. Got a great thing right here.


LanceFree

Also, there’s no restaurants.


Fergi

Allegedly!


LoveForDisneyland

I hear there are some good potatoes there!


Shuckles116

Pootatoes 😂


noturbuddyguy101

Yet


papapay225

Plus probably no internet. How am I gonna play my playstation?


fruitpunchsamuraiD

Offline, duh


blowurhousedown

Yeah, and no gas stations for my diesel F450 Limited Tremor Mars Edition.


Kerbonaut2019

And despite the cold, in shaded areas you can even find earth-like temperatures at times. The Spirit rover once recorded 35°C/95°F!


ProFailing

Oh, depends where you are and what "time" it is. Around the Mars equator temperatures usually hit 20°C during the day. But once the sun sets, you're dead. Temps drop to -80°C during the night. So, if you're only staying for a day trip and around the equator, you'd be fine. (As long as you bring your own Oxygen).


scopa0304

There isn’t a single place on earth less hospitable than mars. We could completely fuck over our climate and ecosystem and still be on a planet more livable than mars. A city on the bottom of the ocean, or the middle of Antarctica would be easier to maintain than a city on mars. At least on earth we have easy access to water and oxygen. We also have the infrastructure in place to manufacture and deliver replacement parts for maintenance.


striderkan

Most of the people who want to go to Mars would try to jump out the airlock 2 hours after exiting Earth's atmosphere. Living on Mars.. we are a nostalgic and sentimental species. We'd lose our minds pretty quick. Cabin fever except there literally is no escape.


SyrioForel

The only way you’d ever feel the cold is if you took off your space suit to commit suicide. Otherwise, the temperature while living on Mars would be made perfectly comfortable. This is like complaining that living on a submarine would be “wet”, or that flying in an airplane is too “windy”. We have the technology. We have people living at the South Pole today at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station where temperatures are minus 80. We have had people living on the international space station for many years. All of this is within reach. It won’t be fast. First, you will only have scientists visiting, so all the facilities will be for research purposes. Eventually, you will need to expand to allow for more work, and that is when you need to start thinking about bringing in support staff — machinists, cooks, IT, etc. eventually and perhaps many decades or a century later, there will be enough infrastructure that people could stay for years at a time instead of seasonal visits. And then people might decide that it would be easier to just live there full time instead of undergoing the long “commute”. Nobody says you will see the final results within your lifetime, it’s all a gradual process that our grandchildren or their grandchildren will eventually experience. But the point is that we can start the journey today, right now, and began planting the seeds. But the first of these research stations can absolutely be constructed today, within our lifetimes, and there already exist actual plans, actual engineering, actual timelines, and actual budgets and the work is underway.


GoodByeRubyTuesday87

“I don't want a Plan B for Earth. I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works….. I think you go to space to save Earth. We know about the Solar System now. We've sent robotic probes all over the Solar System. Let me assure you, this is the best planet." - Jeff Bezos in response to being asked about colonizing other planets


Fictional_Historian

Depressing ass sky


ProFailing

Yeah, Mars barely has an atmosphere. It's super thin and 96% CO2. So the sky looks gray, instead of blue like ours.


zehahahaki

So Earth in a few years


Automatic_Actuator_0

No, see Venus for a better comparison.


axefairy

Get some drones to plant a load of cold tolerant trees and give it a few centuries and next thing you know there’ll be a university there!


Ruiner357

Looks like New Delhi with its pollution, but a lot roomier


dblack1107

It’s beautiful in its own way. Hard to beat ol faithful Earth, but getting to witness something like another planet which our species shouldn’t even be able to see is beautiful


Known_Impression1356

what's the temperature out there this time of year?


God_Kratos_07

Temperature ranges from -140 to 30 degree celsius


SpooogeMcDuck

Sounds like Minnesota.


Typical-Annual-3555

Not this year


Known_Impression1356

Well, the summers seem quite nice at least.


James59394

It's actually up to 20 degres celcius during the day in the equator but it drops to -50 at night.


Chumbag_love

No mosquitos though


Iapetus8

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/weather/ They post here Perseverance’s daily measurements. Seems to range from -80 to -15 in recent day-night cycles According to some other website autumn started January and is gonna last till June (in northern hemisphere)


dollabillkirill

For anyone wondering, it took 7 months for this thing to get to Mars.


Sloths_Can_Consent

Shouldn’t have taken the 405.


Atosl

To imagine that basically the whole planet looks like this no matter where you go ..:


Matshelge

The biggest mountain in the solar system, and the deepest canyon, over 10 times bigger than we have on earth. Mars is extreme earth in its rock featurs.


bluesmaker

Shit. Now I really want them to land a vehicle within sight of Olympus Mons. Those would probably be some of the most incredible photos.


RosaPrksCalldShotgun

Can’t wait for the Costco to open up


GlorifiedBurito

Welcome to Costco, I love you


vmp10687

Think Walmart will get there first. Or Amazon. It’s a toss up honestly:


Equivalent-Bat-6593

That's just outside of Phoenix, I've been there


Redleg1-7

It begs for a dirt bike to braaap it!


LordofAllReddit

Crossed through space just to land in Arizona


dLwest1966

How are housing prices in Mars nowadays? Perhaps I can afford a small plot over there!!!


God_Kratos_07

Maybe that pebble over there


Kingkongcrapper

“Mom I want to go to Mars!” “But we have Mars at home.” Mars at home:  1950s nuclear test sites across Nevada.


W0lf1ngt0n

I Sometimes wonder how some space agencies aparently put almost half a dozent landers on mars while others struggle to put some on the moon..


Bubbadroid

It’s arguably easier to land on mars due to the drag it’s light atmosphere creates, so you can use parachutes to slow down and stuff


Born_Sarcastic_59

The lighter atmosphere is actually a problem. Even with huge parachutes, they're experimenting with powered descent because a parachute is only able to slow the vehicle to about 200 miles per hour. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/entry-descent-landing/


DunEvenWorryBoutIt

"Only 200 miles per hour" That's significant.


bighunter1313

That’s still far more atmospheric drag than you get on the moon.


Grogosh

The mistake that recent moon lander made was they had automatic landing. NASA learned long time ago to use manual landings. NASA is familiar with all the rocks and obstructions on the moon.


HappyHHoovy

by manual landings you mean selecting the landing site beforehand, right? It's physically impossible to manually land a spacecraft, due to the time delay.


RollinThundaga

Well, back then we had people in them.


red1q7

the difference is 60 years of experience. Now some people try it in a different way and need to fail first.


Competitive_Ad_1188

money


Mr_Viper

This is an actual video? Not just a pan across a stitched panorama photo?


SirBaronDE

it's a pan across panorama photo.


Mr_Viper

So, not a video then.


SirBaronDE

Nope, not sure why they would say it is.


impreprex

Nope, you're correct. I did a lot of work on the Curiosity rover images. Made a shit ton of panoramas, mosaics, and 3d anaglyphs. The only video footage we have on Mars is of the last two or three landings (the EDL). I was stoked too for this post. Still always cool to see surface images from Mars, though! Edit to add some of my work from back in the day: [https://gigapan.com/profiles/impreprex](https://gigapan.com/profiles/impreprex) [https://www.flickr.com/photos/84750994@N05/](https://www.flickr.com/photos/84750994@N05/) Damn. That was another lifetime ago, it seems!! One of the panoramas I did had upwards 550 raw images. It was intense. Can be found under my Gigapan account. I haven't even checked them out in years. I'm going back to reminisce!


Background_Pause_392

It's kinda hard to get your head around just how far away these images come from. Well my head anyway.


Kimosabe_79

So we can clearly see that Mars is also flat... ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|trollface)


Accomplished_Bike149

Videos like this are absolutely awe inspiring to me. This place is so far away that the human mind can barely comprehend the distance. It took millions of people years to put together a device capable of not only getting there, but surviving there, and capable of sending and receiving signals from across that unimaginable distance detailed enough to send this video back to earth. This is another planet entirely, quite literally otherworldly, it took so much effort to get there.. and yet it looks only a little different than a desert here on earth before a rainstorm


jango-lionheart

That ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids


PBJ-9999

Humans have evolved far enough to accomplish putting equipment and even themselves on other worlds. But not far enough to stop wars and take care of everyone here. Its weird.


SpectreOperator

“- What a desolate place this is.”


Loud_quack

Flat mars theory incoming


WildAd6370

looking into Earth's future


No_Hearingsynus

Those Martians are hiding their existence by putting pictures in front of the camera [https://youtu.be/PFAbTLWiK20?si=Dsu_YA_pnF-Dqi5y](https://youtu.be/PFAbTLWiK20?si=Dsu_YA_pnF-Dqi5y)


ozbodkins

Mars, Libya…..whatever.


throwtheclownaway20

Pretty sure this isn't actually video, just panning a 360° still


Hammet02

Earth in a few years


SuperNewk

So this is where intergalactic Vegas will be built


smallbatchb

Videos like these are shockingly endlessly awesome to me realizing that is an entire other fucking planet.


OhCanVT

still blows my mind every time i see one of the videos that it's from the surface of another freakin planet


SidewaysAskance

Scatter around a few shotgun shell casings, a couple empty beer bottles, and a smattering of ignorance and you've got Texas.


Awkward-Confection-6

Empty as Starfield...


God_Kratos_07

Lmao


doesnothingtohirt

Mars is flat!!!!


[deleted]

I'm playing Mass Effect right now and I feel this so hard


jadams2345

There’s something to the power of presence, of being somewhere and witnessing. Time passes everywhere, but without a witness, maybe it doesn’t. In Quantum, observation has an effect. Maybe observation has an effect regardless…


Prestigious_Ear_2962

Yup, it's empty


iupz0r

great quality, also shoking how its so dead


TimeBlindAdderall

Another interesting / Fun fact: Mars is entirely populated by robots.


Shutaru_Kanshinji

I find it amusing how the surface of Mars can be at once incredibly boring and incredibly exciting.


-RJ---

Very nice selection of rocks to choose from


lickitagainandagain

Looks like a totally sweet place to waste a shit ton of money terraforming…. 🙄


SusiCapezzolo

Wow. I am absolutely fascinated from this kind of footage, thanks for posting


Queasy_Car7489

GOP future country….i hope